Connect with your community council
Now is a good time to connect! The Newtongrange Community Council is an active one but certainly this past pandemic year has tested our capacity. We currently have a number of live priorities around the...
Category: Community Action
Caring Streets This Christmas
…many people have, quite naturally, worried that we are going back to the experience we lived through from March 23rd this year. With the announcement on Saturday from the First Minister that the Christmas easing...
Armistice Day 2020
There was no Remembrance Sunday Service held in the village this year, but a few community groups met at the War Memorial on Sunday 8th November and held a two minute silence before laying their...
Minutes November 2020
The last digital NCC meeting of the year capturing community highlights and on-going issues. NCC membership recruitment for the new year needed: growing relationships with Midlothian Council, Federation of Community Councils and MTRaP. Plus next steps for Community Development Trust, rollout of the Newtongrange Flyer and the last ‘The Pool’ event of the year and other village issues.
A Development Trust for Newtongrange
Is it time for a Development Trust for Newtongrange? Click to support a trust creation now Since first proposed in 2012 by then Cllr Owen Thompson (now MP) when closures were a threat, a Development Trust...
Launch of the Newtongrange Flyer
Last month saw launch of The Newtongrange Flyer. The NCC has supported, coordinated and funded a number of resilience activities during the CoViD-19 pandemic and the first issue of the new newsletter, although originally designed...
A box full of Taylor family memories returned to Newtongrange
In 2017 my work colleague showed me a box full of photographs, postcards, annotated books & documents relating to a Newtongrange family. David had purchased the box in a local auction & knew I would...
Recollections of VE Day: how to commemorate in lockdown
Many people in the news, papers and television have made comparisons between COVID19 and the sense of community resilience displayed in village life during WW2. We are keen to hear recollections of VE Day and how you might choose to remember on the day.
VE Day Celebrations in Welfare Park, on Wednesday 9th of May 1945
Next Friday 8th of May 2020 marks the 75th anniversary of Victory in Europe (VE) day. In different circumstances there would have been some form of gathering for celebration and personal reflection in the Welfare...
COVID-19 and Newtongrange Resilience
Any situation where we are told that if we can keep UK deaths under 20,000 we will have done well, is clearly not a good one. This is a tough time. Something about the scale of that number means that many families will be touched directly by loss, and if deaths can prevented we should be doing everything we can.