All Together Edinburgh

Thank you to Debbie, Robyn and Craig for cycling in the Pedal for Scotland Wee Jaunt 10 Miler. They cycled from Linlithgow to Edinburgh with a few mishaps along the way. Debbie had to carry Craig’s bike with a burst tyre for the last mile!

Thank you to everybody who supported them including family, friends and customers.
The team raised £201 for the All Together Edinburgh charity shop training centre. 

Thank you so much for your support

Thank you for your support

With your support All Together managed to raise over £1100 at the Leith Learning Disability Event, Leith Festival and Meadows Festival. Our dedicated team of volunteers ran a stall selling clothes, jewellery, vinyl and tombola. Everyone had great fun meeting people from different areas and letting them know about the All Together charity shop/training centre in Leith. A big thank you to all the volunteers who helped out on the stalls and to all our loyal supporters who came along on the day.

We also raised £350 at The Social in the Gardens in July.  Thanks to all the volunteers who helped.

Debbie

We are please to announce that all of our 2017/18 trainees graduated at the White House, Craigmillar on Wednesday 18th April.

The graduates addressed the audience and said that they had gained confidence, retail and work skills. They said they enjoyed working in the shop and look forward to moving on to work or college. They were presented with their certificate by the All Together team:

• Dionne Forrest – Basic Work Skills & Stock and Display
• Anne Johnston – Ready for Retail Award
• Duncan Scott – Ready for Retail Award
• Zaine Shah – Ready for Retail Award
• Miles Barlow – Work Skills 1
• Jamie Knox – Work Skills 1
• Jodie McLaughlin – Work Skills 1
• William McLuckie – Work Skills 1
• Reece Cunningham – Cleaning Skills
• Ashley Strachan – Basic Work Skills, Health and Safety & Customer Care
• Aiden Slater – Basic Work Skills & Health and Safety

Well done!! A big thank you to everyone who attended the event or helped make it a great night. A special thank you to Darren, Bob, Michael, Noel, Brian, Angie, and Bill.

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Thank you so much for voting for us!!

You helped us to win £4,450 from the Leith Chooses Event. This is going towards a new wooden floor, LED lighting and training materials.

Since our last post we’ve moved our website to using WordPress!
This will allow us to more easily keep the site up to date with the happenings going on over here at All Together Edinburgh.

In addition to the new website, we also now have support for donations from cards / PayPal etc, via JustGiving. A widget for this can be found on the donation page seen at the top-right of the page.

Special thanks to one of our interns, Angus Johnston, who helped set up our new site, and also to VidaHost, who provided us with free charity hosting.

If you have any feedback regarding the new site, please send us an email at: admin@alltogetheredinburgh.org.uk.

All Together Edinburgh raised a total of £698 during our last three events!

• The Pedal Scotland event on the 10th September raised £313, with Ava alone raising a whopping £172! Big thanks to her!
  
  

  

  

  

  

  

   

• The Queensferry Crossing event on the 3rd September raised £135.
  
  

  

  

  Debbie walked 1.7 miles over the new, amazing Queensferry Crossing Bridge on Sunday, 2nd September and raised £135 for All Together Edinburgh.

  “This was a once in a lifetime experience. I loved walking across the tallest bridge in the U.K and reading the information signs that showed all the work and precision that went into creating and building this spectacular bridge. There were breathtaking views and many people who commented that they were very proud to be Scottish.”

• The yearly Broomstick Challenge event raised a total of £150! In total we cycled 124.8 kilometres over the course of 6 hours. / 77 miles.

  

  

  

  

  

  

  

A huge thanks to everyone who helped and supported our charity!

All Together Edinburgh raised a whopping £600 over the 2 days at the Meadows Festival and £225 at the Leith Festival day. A huge thanks to everyone who helped and supported our charity. All the volunteers enjoyed themselves selling vintage clothes, accessories, antiques and tickets for the tombola. We also had great fun setting up the gazebo. We think we’ve got the hang of it now. It was a great team effort. All monies raised go directly to our charity shop/training centre in Leith.

We have had 64 people gain qualifications in the shop and 75% have moved into paid employment, voluntary work or college. We have 10 people in our training programme all hoping to finish with a Ready for Retail, Work Skills 1 or Cleaning Skills certificate.

Debbie

We are please to announce that all of our 2016/17 trainees graduated at the White House, Craigmillar on Wednesday 22nd February. They enjoyed a great evening including a slideshow, certificate presentation, rendition of “Love me Tender” by Gordon (our very own Elvis) and a superb buffet provided by the White House Kitchen.

The graduates addressed the audience and said that they had gained confidence, retail and work skills They said they enjoyed working in the shop and look forward to moving on to work or college. They were presented with their certificate by the All Together and Skills Path staff:

• Hamza Raza – Ready for Retail
• Joanne Dickie – Basic Work Skills (r4r)
• Alisha Dickson – Work Skills 1
• Emily Aikman – Ready for Retail
• Gordon Duncan – Ready for Retail
• Shaun Rodgers – Work Skills 1
• Shaun Stoddart – Work Skills 1
• David Martin – Work Skills 1
• Matthew Power – Ready for Retail
• Ovik Choudhury – Work Skills 1

Well done!! A big thank you to everyone who attended the event or helped make it a great night. A special thank you to Darren, Michael, Noel, Caroline, Angie and Brian

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