£eith Chooses back-up site. NOT FOR PUBLICATION

£eith Chooses back-up site. NOT FOR PUBLICATION

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Would you like help with your application?

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We would like to offer as much support as possible. It’s important to ask for help as early as possible in the process – please don’t leave it to the last minute!
If you would like some help with applying, please get in touch.
  • You can email leithchooses@edinburgh.gov.uk if you have questions, or to ask for someone to phone you or arrange a meeting, to discuss.
  • To talk to someone face to face, you can ‘drop in’ and visit a Steering Group meeting. These are held most Wednesdays at 3pm in the upstairs room at McDonald Road Library. We suggest you might email  (as above) to check a meeting is on that week, before coming along.
  • You can ‘drop in’ and visit an evening Steering Group meeting. These are held one Wednesday per month (usually the third in the month, but again you could email to check)  at 5:30pm in the Leith Community Centre, New Kirkgate. Provisional next dates for these are: 17th September; 15th October 2025
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Would you like help with your £eithChooses application?

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Are you a new applicant? Have you got an idea that needs refining? Would you like to discuss anything, before sending in your application?
Please feel free to come along to speak to us this Wednesday 17th September, at 5:30pm, in the Leith Community Centre (upstairs at the Kirkgate).
Or Saturday 4rth October, at the Utilita shop in the Kirkgate, 10am-4pm
We would like to offer as much support as possible. It’s important to ask for help as early as possible in the process – please don’t leave it to the last minute!
If you would like some help with applying, please get in touch.
  • You can email leithchooses@edinburgh.gov.uk if you have questions, or to ask for someone to phone you or arrange a meeting (face to face or online), to discuss.
  • To talk to someone face to face, you can ‘drop in’ and visit a Steering Group meeting. These are held most Wednesdays at 3pm in the upstairs room at McDonald Road Library. We suggest you might email  (as above) to check a meeting is on that week, before coming along.
  • You can ‘drop in’ and visit an evening Steering Group meeting. These are held one Wednesday per month at 5:30pm in the Leith Community Centre, New Kirkgate. Upcoming dates for these are: 17th September; 15th October 2025
  • We’re also doing a pop-up support session on Saturday 4rth October, in the Utilita shop in the Kirkgate, 10am-4pm. Come in for a free coffee and a chat!

 

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Choose your themes for next year!

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Leithers, we need to hear from you, please!  We are planning for £eith Chooses 2026 now, but as per our ‘Community Conversation’ commitments, we would like YOU to determine which topics or themes ought to be given priority. In the past, some years we have had very ‘open’ themes, other years we have asked that all project applications for funding should be focused on particular areas/types of activity.

Here are a few suggestions. Please select the one (or those) that you like best, and/or add your own suggestions.

  1. Healthier and Safer Leith
  2. Culture and Creativity
  3. Greener, Cleaner Leith
  4. Nurturing Connections
  5. Other (your ideas)

Please email your choices and ideas directly to LeithChooses@edinburgh.gov.uk, with ‘Themes for 2026’ in the subject line)

Update, 31 March 2025

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Most of this year’s successful community groups will have received their £eith Chooses funding by now, from the Council Community Grants Fund, or very soon will, and will be starting on their project. We look forward to reporting more about these activities as they develop. Keep in touch and let us know of anything interesting going on, so we can pass that on to the Leith commuity.

Meanwhile the £eith Chooses Steering Group is analysing the feedback provided by voters and applicants on the day and via our recent online surveys, and working on plans to streamine and improve the £eith Chooses process in the future. Please get in touch at any time of you have any ideas, or would like to visit (or even join) the Steering Group.

Contact: LeithChooses@edinburgh.gov.uk

The £eith Chooses results are in!

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The £eith  Chooses 24/25 results are in!

Following the voting period, and after totting up all the votes casr by the Leith communiry, the groups that have been successful in receiving funding for their community projects are now revealed  (in no particular order):

  • Building Bridges
  • Leith Runs Together
  • Leith Community Growers
  • ELREC
  • Citadel Youth Centre
  • Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain
  • Hibernian Community Foundation
  • Dr. Bells Family Centre
  • Nepal Scotland Association
  • Edinburgh Remakery
  • Broughton Primary School Parent Council (partial award)

Congratulations to all of them, and wishing them the very best of luck in getting their projects up and running.

Commiserations to all those who were not successful on this occasion. We wish you well in all your other undertakings.

Warmest thanks to ALL who took part.

 

The LeithChooses results are in!

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The LeithChooses 24/25 results are in!

Following the voting period, and after totting up all the votes cast by the Leith community, the groups that have been successful in receiving funding for their community projects are now revealed  (in no particular order):

  • Building Bridges
  • Leith Runs Together
  • Leith Community Growers
  • ELREC
  • Citadel Youth Centre
  • Association of Ukrainians in Great Britain
  • Hibernian Community Foundation
  • Dr. Bells Family Centre
  • Nepal Scotland Association
  • Edinburgh Remakery
  • Broughton Primary School Parent Council (partial award)

Congratulations to all of them, and wishing them the very best of luck in getting their projects up and running.

Commiserations to all those who were not successful on this occasion. We wish you well in all your other undertakings.

Warmest thanks to ALL who took part.

 

Results Night, 20th February, 6pm

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The results of the recent £eith Chooses will be announced Thursday 20th February, at the Leith Community Centre (cafe area) at 6pm. It is always exciting, to find out who has won funding for their projects – although it is also always upsetting when other great groups and great projects miss out…..

Come along, if you are free, or just check in online here after 8pm to see the list of groups that have been successful.

     

Vote Online NOW!

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From 20th January to 3rd February 2025, online voting is open. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

You get TWO voting opportunities – once at the live in-person voting day, and once online.

If you didn’t manage to get to the Voting Day on 18th January, you can still vote once online.
Even if you DID vote at the Community Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

VOTE HERE
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too.

Who to vote for?
You can find the list of 23 projects here, to check out who you want to vote for, or you will also have a chance to read about them as you go through the voting process.

VOTE HERE
www.edinburgh.gov.uk/voteleithchooses

You will need to give your Leith home post-code or street name to show you are eligible to vote. Or give your school name, or the address of your work or volunteeer work, if you don’t live in Leith.

£eith Chooses Vote on 18th January!

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Voting Day is on Saturday 18th January 2025. Do come along then to the Leith Community Centre in the Kirkgate, meet all the project applicants in person and learn about the projects, and then place your votes in the ballot box there and then.

It is a fun and sociable day. All welcome. Free refreshments are available. There is free face painting and a ‘smoothie bike’ for kids.

Come at 11am if you need / prefer a crowd-free ‘quiet’ voting experience. Otherwise, public voting opens at 12 midday (’til 3pm)

Online Voting
After the live voting day, there will be a further 2 weeks of online voting from 20th January – 3rd February. If you didn’t manage to get to the in-person day at the Community Centre, you can vote online. If you DID vote at the Comunity Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

Who to vote for?
You can find the list of 23 projects here, if you have time to browse through them and wise up before the voting day / period.

LeithChooses Vote on 18th January!

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Voting Day is on Saturday 18th January 2025. Do come along then to the Leith Community Centre in the Kirkgate, meet all the project applicants in person and learn about the projects, and then place your votes in the ballot box there and then.

It is a fun and sociable day. All welcome. Free refreshments are available. There is free face painting and a ‘smoothie bike’ for kids.

Come at 11am if you need / prefer a crowd-free ‘quiet’ voting experience. Otherwise, public voting opens at 12 midday (’til 3pm)

Online Voting
After the live voting day, there will be a further 2 weeks of online voting from 20th January – 3rd February. If you didn’t manage to get to the in-person day at the Community Centre, you can vote online. If you DID vote at the Community Centre, you can ALSO vote once online.

Please remind your friends, family and colleagues to vote, too. Everyone 8 years or older who lives, works, volunteers or attends school or college in Leith is eligible to vote.

Who to vote for?
You can find the list of 23 projects here, if you have time to browse through them and wise up before the voting day / period.