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As part of Volunteers’ Week, last Thursday we held a Thank You party at the PEP Centre for our dedicated team of volunteers! A huge well done to Irene and Fergus, who this year both received the Edinburgh Inspiring Volunteer Award 🥇

It's Friday... so that means it's time for another chance to spend some time in the sun in our garden space while you enjoy some soup and a roll! 🍲 Free of charge and open to all! 📍 3 - 11 West Granton Road ⏰ 1pm - 2pm

Last Friday our Chummies Club visited Ye Olde Inn for lunch. The sun was shining as we booked out the lovely conservatory, with some even sitting outside to enjoy the early Scottish summer. Thank you to the staff for the fantastic service and meal - we’ll definitely be back!

Our Golden Oldies club enjoyed a visit to Dynamic Earth on Monday. The group travelled back in time, seeing everything from glaciers to volcanoes, closing with an amazing experience in the planetarium. Thank you so much to the staff at Dynamic Earth.

Our Neighbourhood Group had an amazing time last Friday at the Kelpies in Falkirk. The group were treated to a cycle around the area courtesy of 4 volunteers from CWA Scotland, with the team whizzing us around on their trishaws. Thanks for a great experience!

Fully booked Crochet for Beginners all day workshop, sharing stories, lovely lunch and new skills. Thanks to Karen Thomson for volunteering her tutoring skills, enthusiasm and patience ♥️ a day of the five ways to wellbeing #learning #give #connect #takenotice #beactive

We're delighted with our new website - pepscot.org You can use the PEP website to read about our services, make referrals to our clubs, enquire about volunteering, or hire our minibuses Thanks to Stephen at Volunteer Edinburgh for helping to create our new website.

Last week our Weekend Resource enjoyed a trip to the Ratho Barge! We travelled down the Union Canal, stopping for lunch on Ratho Bridge. The sun was shining (mostly!) as we returned, giving us some stunning views. Thank you to the Seagull Trust for this great day out.

On Monday our Golden Oldies club visited the Kelpies, & CWA Scotland kindly agreed to put on more trishaw rides for us, whizzing us around the beautiful scenery of Helix Park. Thank you so much to the “volunteer pilots” from Cycling Without Age for another lovely day out.

Yesterday we held our annual Summer Party at Queensberry Bowling Club! PEP’s groups all came together to enjoy a day of dancing, music, a delicious lunch, & a raffle with lots of prizes. Thank you to our entertainer Anita and our staff and volunteers for all their hard work.

Goodbye Beth Today is the last day at PEP of our Mental Health Worker, Beth Flinton. Beth came to PEP in July 2022 to run our mental health provision, the Neighbourhood Group. Everyone at PEP is so grateful for Beth’s hard work in the community. Thank you, Beth!

On Monday our Golden Oldies club enjoyed a fantastic cruise on the Ratho barge! We sailed down the canal, stopping for lunch at the Almond Aqueduct before journeying back to Ratho. Thank you so much to the wonderful team from Seagull Trust for their hospitality.

Wonderful to welcome Listen Well Scotland to our community hub to explore new ways to offer more listening training and services in #NorthEdinburgh #Wellbeing #belonging #connect #listening

Thank you to Clive from Queensferry Care for this fantastic picture of our driver Chris and his PEP minibus. Chris is a regular driver for QCCC & Clive is a group member who attends every Thursday. At 92 years old, we can safely say that Clive’s artistic talent is outstanding!

BECOME A VOLUNTEER TRUSTEE We are looking to bring new Trustees onto our Board of Directors. Please see our website for more info: pepscot.org/2023/10/become…

Today is World Mental Health Day. At PEP we are proud to offer a mental health provision for older and other vulnerable adults, as well as our older people’s lunch clubs, community transport and weekly computer class. Happy World Mental Health Day to everyone in the community

Last week was #ChallengePovertyWeek We know the importance of food in bringing people together, & the impact of food poverty. Last week, we delivered food parcels to our Friday Neighbourhood Group & our Weekend Resource. Thank you to Sainsbury’s for the donation of 500 bags

The Thursday Neighbourhood Group have started a project of outdoor activities with Espe from Edinburgh & Lothians Greenspace Trust Over a 6 week period, we’ll be taking part in environmental activities to benefit the community. Thank you to Espe - we’re looking forward to the coming weeks! 🌳 🪴

Happy Halloween! To celebrate spooky season, our staff driver Chris has decked out his PEP minibus with Halloween decorations! From all of us at PEP: have a spooky time 👻 🧙‍♀️