2019 Sit-up Award Won by ‘Who Cares’
The 2019 SIT-UP Award has been awarded to LUNG and The Lowry in partnership with Gaddum for its production Who Cares currently moving audiences...
Specsavers offer more at Morningside
ONE of Scotland’s leading optometrists can now offer specialist advice for retinal conditions from the Specsavers store in Morningside.Michael O’Kane, who is Scotland’s Optometrist...
Feel good this Festival and try before you buy
Edinburgh Leisure is offering non-members the opportunity to try out their facilities with a free 7-day pass. The offer runs from Monday, 12 August...
Edinburgh opticians offering a new kind of contact lens
EDINBURGH-based Cameron Optometry has over 50 patients using 'myopia management contact lenses', one of the highest numbers of patients for any practice in the UK.
Here,...
Scotland’s New-look Baby Box ready in time for Mother’s Day
The new Baby Box design, created by a team of children and young people, has been unveiled, with the new design featuring iconic landmarks...
Here’s how you can improve your life – special offer for...
The Edinburgh
Reporter’s Mike Smith is a qualified hypnotherapist who runs a successful
practice, Mind Generating Success, in the west end of Edinburgh. Here, he
explains what...
How will your garden grow?
Ageing Well, Edinburgh Leisure’s successful project promoting healthy lifestyles for older adults in Edinburgh, is launching their allotment programme at Leith Links. It will...
City hotel adapts facilities for those with cancer
EDINBURGH’S largest independent hotel is adapting its facilities to accommodate guests who have been affected by cancer.
Ten Hill Place is making alterations to all...
Pop-up Hub Launched to Help Take Care of our Carers
Designed as a one-stop shop for people who help look after a loved one, an emotional and wellbeing hub for carers will pop-up at...
New care framework for Huntington’s disease
Local staff and families at forefront of work to help people with complex neurodegenerative condition
One of the world’s first local Care Frameworks for Huntington’s...
£1.4m National Lottery boost to community organisations
Local people in Edinburgh and the Lothians will benefit from awards from the National Lottery Community Fund announced this week.
People in many parts of...
Finding their wild side at Scrambles
Youngsters joined in the adventure with Skye, the new hero character, and her mountain friends, Stag and Owl as Scrambles soft-play re-opened at EICA:...
Iconic Dalry pool reopens after refurbishment
Scotland's ninth oldest public swimming bath, Dalry Swim Centre reopens to the public tomorrow 30 January, having undergone a major refurbishment.
Closed since July 2018,...
How to improve your life: a special offer for Edinburgh Reporter...
We’re nearly at the end of January. How are those New Year resolutions going? The Edinburgh Reporter’s Mike Smith is a qualified hypnotherapist who...
Edinburgh children to benefit from art therapy sessions
A Musselburgh-based charity providing art therapy for children with chronic conditions in hospitals is receiving a four-figure funding boost
The financial help from...
Gym membership: how to get the most out of it
A sports scientist from Heriot-Watt University offers his advice
...
Change your thinking. Change your life.
It’s
that time of the year. Christmas has come and gone. The recovery period from
New Year is under way. Across the country there are familiar...
Wellbeing Festival in the West End this January
This January the first Wellbeing Festival will take place in the West End.
Between 11 and 13 January you can join in the fun with...
Start 2019 with some fitness at the Commie
Edinburgh Leisure is hosting a free fitness and pool taster event at the Royal Commonwealth Pool on Saturday, 5 January 2019 to promote some...
Perfect way to start off the festive season – Elemis Couture...
It seemed that it would be such a treat to sneak away for a spa treatment just as things are getting frantic for Christmas! ...
Twelve days of Fitmas at Edinburgh Leisure
December has arrived and with it the season of shopping, eating, drinking, partying and ... exercise.
December may traditionally be the month that physical activity...
Time to Plan Ahead With Your Aims for 2019
We’re fast approaching the time of year when people look to change their habits.
Now is the time to start planning ahead to January -...
Edinburgh mums overcoming barriers to staying active
A new project, funded by NHS Lothian’s Health Improvement Fund, aimed at mums on lower incomes to incorporate physical activity into their lives and...
Walking charity launches new award to get Scotland’s workforce moving
A Scottish charity has launched a new accreditation that aims to reverse the trend of inactive workplaces.
Paths for All has created the Walk at Work...
Places Gym Club opens on Saturday
A new gym will open this weekend in Leith.
On 10 November 2018 the latest Places Gym Club will open on Leith Walk as part...
Join in some festive fun with Edinburgh Leisure’s Santa
Join in some festive fun with Santa and work off those mince pies
Santa’s been in training for his busiest time of year by paying...
Former printer begins a career in nursing at 50.
After being made redundant three times, once on Christmas Eve, former City & Guilds qualified printer, David Easton, was forced to rethink his career...
Care-experienced young people get active with #YouCan
A new project, #YouCan, that will improve the lives of care-experienced young people, was officially launched at the Edinburgh International Climbing Arena: Ratho on...
Scotland gets to ‘Know its Routes’
Many paths across Scotland are to be significantly upgraded by hundreds of volunteers as Scotland’s walking charity gives out thousands of pounds to a...
Hibs support campaign to increase number of organ donors
Hibs are supporting the Scottish Government’s most recent campaign to increase the amount of organ donors within the country promoting the message - sporty...
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