44 Buchanan Street, Leith, Edinburgh, EH6 8RF - 0131 554 0953

Company Registration Number: 197820 - OSCR Charity Number: SC006692


 
 

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About the Pilmeny Youth Centre

A bit of info about Pilmeny......

Situated in the Lorne area of Leith, Edinburgh, the Pilmeny Youth Centre provides social, educational and recreational activities for local children and young people aged from toddler to 19yrs.

Member groups are staffed by a team of part-time youth workers, provided by the Pilmeny Development Project via City of Edinburgh Council, Children and Families Services, as well as independently funded youth staff. The building is leased from our local Pilrig St Paul's Church, who were the previous owners of the adjoining building. The centre was the old church social hall until 1984 when the local Pilmeny Development Project, based not 200 metres from our front door, took up the fight with the then Lothian Regional Council, to lobby for a total refurbishment of the building. It took five long years before the council listened to the needs of the community and funding was provided in 1989 to transform the centre into the facility it is today.


At the time of the refurbishment the centre only had one user group brave enough to use the crumbling facility. After 12 months of stripping the building back to its shell and rebuilding to its present standard, we opened our doors to the local community in November 1990 and have went from strength to strength since that date.

The centre is supported by a staff team of Four (4). Our full time Manager is assisted by two (2) part-time staff members, book-keeper and cleaner, and also a weekend session worker. The centre manager has responsibility for the day - to - day management of the centre and its budget and main activity programme

The wider issue's concerning the centre is entrusted to the voluntary Board of Directors. The centre is part funded by the City of Edinburgh Council, with full salary provision for the centre manager. Part-time staff costs are met by 50% of the CEC Annual Revenue Grant. However, the remainder of staff salaries and utility and servicing costs has to be met from fundraising activities and from lease/hire of the facilities to local groups and organisations.

The Pilmeny Youth Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of three new directors. A warm welcome to Cindy Pritchard, Tom Burnett and Frank Ross. All of our new directorship appointments, have a long history of working alongside, or supporting the youth centres work in the community, and the increase in board directorships will allow the board to consolidate its current and future development strategies. Welcome also to, Maria Croall who joins our management committee. Maria will represent our landlords and the congregation of Pilrig St Paul's Church.

Meet Our Board

Chairperson & Director
Mr Elric Honore

Company Secretary & Director
Mr Chris Askham

Advisor to the Board
Ms Jackie Mearns
(City of Edinburgh Council, Revenue Grants Officer)

Directors

Mr Nick Gardner
(Leith Walk Ward Councillor)

Ms Mary Hastie

Mrs Marlyn Tait

Phil Attridge

Tom Burnett

Frank Ross

Cindy Pritchard

Robbie Huxtable
(Leith Academy Student Support)

Maria Croall

(Management Committee Member)

 

Aileen Fraser

(Management Committee Member)

 

 
     
 
     
 

News

Friday 16th August 2013

The Pilmeny Youth Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of three new directors. A warm welcome to Cindy Pritchard, Tom Burnett and Frank Ross. All of our new directorship appointments, have a long history of working alongside, or supporting the youth centres work in the community, and the increase in board directorships will allow the board to consolidate its current and future development strategies. Welcome also to, Maria Croall who joins our management committee. Maria will represent our landlords and the congregation of Pilrig St Paul's Church.



Thursday 8th August 2013

Thanks to support and funding from the Big Lottery Fund in tandem with The Scottish Government the PYC will continue its out of school sports provision with our new Fit4Fun project. Taking place over three separate days, the project will cater for children in Primary 1 up to Primary 6. See poster for details.



Friday 2nd August 2013

PYC music project hitting the right notes. Thanks to funding support, and generosity of the Moffat Charitable Trust and the Ernest Cook Trust, our sucessful music project will continue for another year. In addition, PYC is now in a position to expand its music provision, to offer tuition to older children within the community. Both projects, are due to commence on Monday 19 August, continuing until end of June 2014. Registration is now open for budding musicians looking for tuition at our Senior music sessions.......



Wednesday 31st July 2013

P-KAD Project. Our Pilmeny Kick About Nights moved a step closer to reality with capital funding support awarded by the Gordon Faser Trust, The John Watson Trust and the Rank Foundation. The generous contributions from all three funders has allowed PYC to lay the "foundations" for our winter evening sports projects with the purchase of four portable floodlight rigs that will allow PYC to facilitate evenings sports activities - 4 a side football - Basketball - Unihock etc at the two recreational areas contained within Dalmeny Street Park. Two ideal sites, used by local children and young people, from dawn to dusk in the Spring and Summer evenings, but lie redundant as soon as the clocks change in October. When the dark nights flood in....its all systems go for P-KAD



     

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