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Local History Group Volunteer

  • VO99845

Description

You are invited to attend one or more meetings, usually on Saturday mornings, once a month for 1.5 hours with others to look at ways to tell more people about our local history archive for Granton and NE Edinburgh. Involving discussion, brainstorming creative ideas, identifying gaps in the archive and planning.

Organisation aims and objectives

To develop historic Madelvic House as a creative hub for the benefit of the local community. Our purposes are To advance the arts by exhibiting and encouraging community involvement in creating art in various forms. To advance heritage by preserving and repurposing historic Madelvic House as a thriving artist/maker based community hub. To advance culture by encouraging integration of different sectors within the local community through film, exhibitions, talks and community initiated events. To advance education through provision of a variety of workshops, films, talks and awareness raising activities. To advance environmental protection and improvement through promoting recycling / upcycling and creating a community garden. To provide a broad range of recreational activities. The hub will provide a welcoming space for people to meet and learn new skills.

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1.5 hours one Saturday morning.

Frequency and commitment details

1.5 hours one Saturday morning.

Restrictions

Travel details: Well served by buses 16, airport 200, 47, 19 then 5-10 minutes walk. Free parking.
Minimum age: 16

Support

Expenses paid: Yes
Expenses details: You will provide an online or paper note of your expenses, with receipts if appropriate and detailing how we can pay into your bank account.
Taster available: Yes
Training details: We will meet for a chat so you can tell me what you would like to get out of your involvement with the Granton Archive Project and I will be able to tell you about what we do, give you some information and answer questions.
Support: Wheelchair Access/Disabled Access Toilet

You can't volunteer for this opportunity using this site. Please contact the organisation directly using https://grantonhub.org/ for more information.

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