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"The Engine Shed set to lose vital council funding"
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Posted 12 years ago #
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Maureen Child (@MaureenChild1)
17/05/2013 17:50
@wornoutmumhack @edinburghpaper Panic premature. 'Employability might not be the right funding stream for a project we all value greatly."
Posted 12 years ago # -
I hope the Engine Shed is not closed. I would like to know what the people who work there think. They don't seem to have been consulted. The cut-off for retaining funding seems to have been arbitrarily set at between zero and two people into "real" jobs. Is there an ethical dimension to the jobs found for people. Would a job slicing Greggs bread and putting it in bags really be better than one baking organic bread at the Engine Shed? Panic premature perhaps but why create panic amongst vulnerable adults at all?
Posted 12 years ago # -
i have been trying for several years to convince my dept to hold our semi-annual'away day' at the engine shed. quite a lot of my colleagues are vegetarians. it is conveniently located. yes i have not yet succeeded. i don't know why.
Posted 12 years ago # -
Been at such seminarsninnengine shed and they are good (one seminarian could not eat vegetables which wasn't good for her).
Operates very well as a training institute but I guess after your three years there you have to makenwaybfornother trainees. Real jobs are very hard to find.
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Ben Paechter (@benpaechter)
18/05/2013 13:49
@CllrChasBooth today one person has signed the petition to keep the Engine Shed open every 24 secondshttp://www.change.org/petitions/city-of-edinburgh-council-stop-the-closure-of-the-engine-shed
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cameron rose (@cameronrose)
20/05/2013 19:11
Local newsblog We need to build on Engine Shed brand, loyalty and success - not jeapordise it: Last week I sa..."
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http:/wwwm.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/engine-shed-learning-difficulties-centre-saved-1-3052126
Posted 11 years ago # -
Excellent! It's a wonderful project, and the produce is superb - now they have a stall at the market on Saturdays I always stop off get some bread and hummus (now where was that thread about cycling and being middle class...)
Posted 11 years ago # -
And finally(?)
http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/council-to-shut-off-funding-for-engine-shed-1-3531060
Posted 10 years ago # -
I wondered if a crowd sourced funding type campaign would work for this. Needs a big name behind it though. Worked for the food café on Rose Street at Christmas.
Posted 10 years ago # -
Marco biagi is arguing for the building to be kept public.
Posted 10 years ago #
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