​Sunday 7th June 2015 11:00 am (1 mile fun run) & 11.30 am (4 mile race) Dalriada Bar, 77 Promenade, Portobello EH15 2EL £8 or £6 for SAL members (Children’s race is £2) Online Entry Enter online now at www.entrycentral.com/PortyBeachRace Race day entry (£9 or £7 for SA members) is subject to the race limit […]

Benefits of Community Climate Change View this email in your browser People’s Climate Assembly A one day event forcommunity groupsthroughout Edinburgh Look to the future to see how the development of climate change solutions can be made to benefit your target community. Share experiences, get knowledge, consider developing  a solidarity based approach to affecting citywide policy Saturday, 23 May […]

​ Joppa Tennis Open Day is on Saturday 9th  May 2 – 5 pm   Free coaching for children and adults  Tea and scones  Coaching for younger children will be from 2pm  Adults coaching likely from about 4 pm  All welcome both members and non members Just turn up and have a go!

People who live and work in Portobello are being asked to vote on 29 bids for community funding. Anyone over the age of 8 can take part and all you have to do is rate each bid 1-5 (Higher is better). Applications from Portobello groups include Toddler Hut, Joppa Tennis Courts, Breadshare, Portobello Youth Theatre, Towerbank […]

Friends of Figgate Park Public Meeting When: 7-9 pm Where: Room 13, Duddingston Primary School All Welcome! There’s also post on our Facebook page about it: https://www.facebook.com/Figgate

The Skylark brings you an exhibition of the work of Edinburgh artist and printmaker Marie Varley. "The primary sources for my artworks are postage stamps from the 1960’s onwards. The postage stamp was once the greatest ambassador for its country. With current technological advances and the arrival of the internet and concurrently the ‘email’, the […]

[tribulant_slideshow gallery_id=”1″] More than 300 packed in to Portobello Town Hall for the hustings event organised by Portobello Community Council last night (Wednesday, 22 April, 2015). All seven candidates standing in Edinburgh East attended and were given equal opportunity to speak and answer questions from the audience. Proceedings were lively and interesting, with plenty of […]

Portobello Expectant and New Parents’ Event Portobello Library – 12noon-2pm – Saturday 2nd May 2015 Are you expecting or have had a baby recently? Do you live in the Portobello or Joppa area? Please come along to this free information event to let new and expectant parents know about groups, classes and services on in […]

TEDxPortobello is coming to Edinburgh’s seaside community on Sunday, 10 May, 2015 at TribePorty and will feature eight speakers from a range of different disciplines sharing their thoughts on the theme Seeing Things Differently.  The TEDxPortobello team say: "We are excited to create a platform and build community around the stories, experience, and knowledge that […]

​ Portobello Community Council is planning a Hustings event for the UK General election and we’d like to hear about the issues which matter to voters in this constituency. All the candidates from all the parties standing in Edinburgh East be invited to attend the event and be given equal opportunity to speak and answer […]