Welcome to Transition Edinburgh South
Meet new people & cut living costs in a beautiful South Edinburgh garden!
We can teach you new gardening and cooking skills and much more besides. Or maybe you can bring a skill that can help us and other volunteers too?
We have regular volunteering sessions on Mondays, Tuesdays and Fridays between 10am and 2pm and on Friday you can take part in our community lunch too.
What we do at Transition Edinburgh South
Our Gracemount
Thanks to the University of Edinburgh Community Grants programme for supporting the project, ‘Our Gracemount’, working with and the local community, @EdSust and @EdinUniLocal to promote new volunteering opportunities, and develop the community garden and local greenspace.
See the Our Gracemount Report for 2021. For more information, follow us on Twitter and Facebook.
Making Change Happen
Transition Edinburgh South (TES) works with local people and community organisations to regenerate greenspaces and community buildings. We are part of the Transition Movement, which is "a movement of communities coming together to reimagine and rebuild our world".
Investing in Communities
Thanks to funding from the Investing in Communities Fund we have been able to appoint 5 new members of staff:
Rob Davidson, Project Manager,
Richard Whiston, Garden Manager, Kirsten Foggo, Food and Wellbeing Worker,
Rita Budavári, Youth and Children's Worker, and
Jane Hartley, Development Worker for the Mansion Development Trust.
Join us for our free community lunches
All are welcome, every Friday from 12:30pm - 1:00pm!
Come and join us for our delicious weekly lunches here at Transition Edinburgh South. Our dishes are cooked with the freshest ingredients grown in our very own garden, and prepared by our skilled and passionate volunteers.
All are welcome, kids and grown-ups! Check our calendar for more details or to explore other activities at our garden.
We use fresh ingredients to make all our lunches
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