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Wester Hailes Arts for Leisure and Education

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Food Map

April 6, 2020 By Whale Arts

Find food provision services available locally in South West Edinburgh during the Coronavirus lockdown. Services include food banks, community meal takeaway, shopping services, food delivery and more.

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HeARTy Food and Friendship

April 2, 2020 By Whale Arts

Free weekly hot meals, art packs and friendship calls available to those living in Wester Hailes. Click here to access.

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Free Online Classes at WHALE Arts

March 27, 2020 By Whale Arts

New online access to activities are released every week on the website here. Cosy up and get your creations feature on the website.

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Updated response to COVID-19: 25th March 2020

March 25, 2020 By Whale Arts

We care deeply about our participants, team, our membership and the community we serve in Wester Hailes and beyond. Due to the new rules to stop the spread of Coronavirus we are continuing to take a range of measures and would ask everyone to have a read of these and pass on the message to anyone who you think might need to know.

WHALE Arts Centre

The building remains closed to the public and all our art groups continue to be postponed until further notice. There are a small number of WHALE Arts and SCOREscotland team members in the building with resources focused on providing food and support for those who need it in Wester Hailes.

Focus on Food Provision

Our Friday Community Meal has been replaced with a Community Takeaway – this will be cooked by our chef Paul and packaged up for locals to takeaway and eat at home. This will be from 1:00pm – 2:00pm each Friday at WHALE Arts. Please come to the Performance Space doors – there will be signage if you don’t know the way. We have queueing measures in place to help with social distancing to keep everyone safe.

And although the WHALE Arts building will be closed to the public the Community Fridge managed by SCOREscotland will continue to operate on reduced days – Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday between 10:00am – 1:00pm. If you would like to use the Community Fridge please contact SCOREscotland on 0131 442 2341 or 07496 190 916.

Wester Hailes Together

We are communicating on a daily basis with a group of local community organisations, voluntary groups and support agencies in Wester Hailes and we are working together to support the residents of Wester Hailes during this time of uncertainty due to the Coronavirus. This will happen in a range of different ways, focusing first on food provision, essential items, and connecting and checking in with people online, and over the phone. Our support will follow the UK and Scottish Government’s most recent guidance on social distancing. We will use the Digital Sentinel to communicate weekly the most up to date provision available in Wester Hailes.

If you provide a service in Wester Hailes and you would like it included in the weekly update on local provision please email Craig on digitalsentinel@whalearts.co.uk who will include your provision or service in the Wester Hailes Together Weekly Update on http://www.digitalsentinel.net/

Let Us Know If You Need Help

Please get in touch with the WHALE Arts team if you need support or a conversation on 0131 458 3267 or by emailing info@whalearts.co.uk or by SMS text to 07926 613472.

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WHALE Arts Strategic Plan: 2019 – 2024

September 6, 2019 By Whale Arts

The new Strategic Plan document has been released! You can read this online now.

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WHALE Arts is …

... the cultural anchor organisation for Wester Hailes. We are a community-led arts charity and social enterprise, set up by local people in 1992. Our mission is to be the creative heart of a vibrant, thriving community.

WHALE Arts

30 Westburn Grove,
Edinburgh,
EH14 2SA
0131 458 3267
info@whalearts.co.uk

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