Fresh Start has been voted by Baillie Gifford staff as our Charity of the Year for 2023/24. The charity supports people on the journey from homelessness to beginning a new tenancy. Find out more: ow.ly/ksmI50Obpuu

📷Join our team📷 Do you want to make a difference in someone's life and help them move on from homelessness? No experience of painting is needed, just a willingness to get involved! Salary: £22,718 – £24,590 goodmoves.com/.../volunteer-… #JOBALERT #Jobs #EDINBURGH #Recruiting

A huge congratulations to Fresh Start for winning the Community Action Award at the SCVO #ScotCharityAwards! We love to see our members honoured and celebrated for their amazing work supporting their communities and creating a more circular economy in Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✨

Hooray! Our friends Fresh Start were worthy winners of the Community Action award #ScotCharityAwards SCVO

Tune in to BBC Radio Scotland at 11:30am today to hear Fresh Start's Managing Director Biddy Kelly speak about the reality of homelessness

Important donations update from Fresh Start.

The countdown has started ...! Just over 400 hours till our fabulous #ChristmasFair Cramond Kirk Halls - 11am-1pm Sat 2 Dec, bring cash pls. Do your Christmas shopping & enjoy delicious snacks. Proceeds to be split with Fresh Start & Project Esperanza

Fresh Start's Cookers for Christmas campaign provides essential white goods to people moving on from homelessness and to those who are struggling financially. #Christmas2023 #CookersForChristmas #FreshStart To donate, please go to: justgiving.com/campaign/Cooke…

On the run up to Christmas, we like to make our food packs a little more festive! If you'd like to contribute, pls drop any donations below off at our warehouse by the beginning of December It would be lovely to bring a little festive cheer to people's lives at this time of year

Thank you to the Edinburgh City Singers who hosted a bake sale and raffle for Halloween and raised £950 for Fresh Start The group have chosen us as their #CharityofTheYear and their last concert of the year is the Winter Concert on 10th December - check it out! EdinburghCitySingers

What a transformation! Big thanks to the team of corporate supporters from FreeAgent for their help turning this house into a home. Changing the colour of the walls has really brightened up the property and the tenant loved the result!

Fresh Start's Cookers for Christmas campaign provides essential white goods to people moving on from homelessness We all take these basic essentials for granted. justgiving.com/campaign/Cooke…

We have updated our pantry opening hours, and will open earlier and close earlier on a Wednesday afternoon, with effect from this week.

Fresh Start’s painting and decorating team made a huge difference to this tenant’s new home, covering up the orange and yellow with a lovely, fresh purple. If you are working with someone that could benefit from this service, please email [email protected]

We had a great time at the launch of our Keeping Edinburgh podcast last night. We heard from some of the podcast guests, including Heather Yang from Volunteer Edinburgh, Biddy Kelly from Fresh Start and Alan Gray from Health All Round!👏 Check out the podcast: podfollow.com/keepingedinbur…

Stuck for Christmas shopping ideas? Come along to our #ChristmasFair next Sat (2 Dec) 11am-1pm Cramond Kirk Halls - proceeds to be shared with Fresh Start & Project Esperanza ... and bring the weans, #Santa will be there!

Excited that our #ChristmasTree Festival starts this coming Sunday (10 Dec) - please do come & see! Here are the opening times:

#Volunteer appreciation post 💙 This week we held a very successful festive volunteer brunch to thank our hard working volunteers for all the work they do for us over the year. Lovely croissants and cakes were prepares by our cooking service coordinators and enjoyed by all!

❗️We need your help ❗️ Our shelves are literally empty 😭 and in desperate need of Dinner plates 🍽 Side plates 🍽 Bowls 🥣 Glasses/tumblers 🥛 Towels 🧖‍♀️ For our essential starter packs. If you have any spare and I’m good condition that you no longer use, please drop them off💙

Thank you for your on going support! Hope you had a fun, festive day 🎄