Our Share 'n' Wear shop is on the road! On Saturday 12th October we'll be setting up at the Communities for Conservation event at the Drill Hall (Out of the Blue). Anna, our Community Engagement Officer, says "All these swaps run by Communities for Conservation are very busy and attract people from all over Edinburgh, lots of students, refugees and people interested in environmental aspects of recycling, so we thought it would be nice to join them and promote both Granton Goes Greener and...

We are holding a Family Fun Day on Saturday 21st September and are looking for folk to get involved in helping. The event will run from 12 noon - 3pm and we are looking for help with tombola, face painting, teas and coffees. Anna, our Community Engagement Officer, says "the Family Fun Day will be similar to the one we had few months ago at the church, and if anyone is free to help on the day or a day before with the set-up, do let me know". Look out for more details soon.

GRANTON GOES GREENER THE PROJECT IN NUMBERS April to July 2019 10 kG Total weight of clothes donated to the Swap Shop 1 kG Total weight of clothes that we have reused - that's almost the whole of last year's target in just 3 months! 1 kG Total weight of clothes recycled and dropped at council recycling site. 1 kG Total weight of bread saved from landfill and used  between 31/3 and1/7

Swap Shop new opening day Having the Swap Shop open on days during the week (Wednesday: 3-4:30PM, Thursday: 4:30-6PM and Friday: 12-1PM) we will now be opening on every first Sunday of the month, just after the church service. We are hoping to make a stronger bond between the church and community and may have some swap shop users attending coffee at the church or even Sunday service. Help us to spread a word. We will be starting on the first Sunday of August-04/08 and then every first Sun...

The church will be running a 'pop-up Swap Shop' at this event and we are looking for a driver or two to help transport rails and clothes to the event in The Meadows. If you can help out - even just one way - please have a word with Anna, Norman or Chas. more about the Climate Festival Our Climate Challenge Project is taking part in the Climate Change Festival in Meadows in July. Along with many other CCF sponsored and like-minded projects in Edinburgh, we'll be at the event on 6th July from...

Our Climate Challenge Project, Granton Goes Greener, is running a Fund Day on 8th June in the Church grounds. We will have our partners PCHP, Granton Gardeners, Communities for Conservation at ELREC and "Be United". We'll be outside if the weather permits - or the main church in case of bad weather. The West Hall will be used for baby and toddler session between 10:30-11:30, then for a yoga class between 12-1PM and finally a dancing workshop between 1:30-2PM Anna, our Community Engagement ...