Projects | Gorebridge Community Cares

Our Projects

Our projects and groups are based at Gorebridge Cares Hive and are all free to attend for members of Gorebridge Community and include:

Sociable Seniors - Monday Seated Exercise and Friday Morning Health Walk
Craft Group - Wednesdays
CV Clinic, support and advice
REHIS formal training courses with qualified trainer in approved centre
Annual 'Santa Event' - free for the community
Annual 'Big Lunch/Volunteer Event' - free for the community
Summer Programme of free local events
Free summer seaside trip for local families
Working with Gorebridge Primary Schools to provide Nurture Groups involving cooking, gardening and intergenerational storytime.
Class Acts Saturday Group
Wellbeing Wednesday Support Group for Parents/Carers
Rummage in the Jumble

Building a bug hotel

Bug Hotel in the Hive garden - made by our nurture group

Our Development Manager and one of our seniors in character ready for story time with the nurture groups

Our volunteers Joan and Mary gardening with the nurture groups

Our talented craft group knitted and crocheted prizes for the children's tombola

Celebrating 100 years of Gorebridge Galaday with a range of crafting gifts for the village

Our sociable seniors 'exercising' in the park!

Families on the bus on one of our annual summer trips

Our Annual Big Lunch Event

Bouncy Castles at the Big Lunch/Volunteer Fair. Great fun.

Some of Our Class Acts students helping out at the Christams Fayre

Santa and his elf!

Craft group goodies available at our Christmas Fayre

Galaday

The sociable senior and nurture groups enjoying storytime!

Intergenerational storytelling

Greenhouse and Nurture Group

Rummage in the Jumble

Our talented and green fingered volunteers help to maintain the planters in the village

Entrance to the Auld Gala Park - opened 2016

Cooking in Gorebridge Primary School as part of the cost of the School Day money through the PTA. Pancakes and chocolate marshmallow sauce, what else today!

Mhairi, our Development Officer is very intense showing all her young students how to cook.

Auld Gala park - planting with P4s for spring. They helped plant daffodils for 2019. It was a beautiful day.

Door

Our talented craft group crocheted a Christmas Tree for the garden.

The community choir entertaining visitors to Santa's Grotto

Mary and Elsie help children make their lanterns at the Santa Event as part of the Torch Light parade to switch on the Christmas Lights.

We are delighted to share space at the Hive with Upmo an Edinburgh-based charity providing support and opportunity for adults with learning disabilities and autism. Students at the Hive can take part in Arts, Health and Wellbeing and Outdoor Learning Workshops.

You can find out more about Upmo here: https://www.upmo.org/about-us/

Our History

Project Aim:

'The aim of the project is to acquire the former Gorebridge Police Station Building as a base for Gorebridge Community Cares to set up a centre for families and young people to promote emotional, physical and mental well-being, in a holistic and friendly environment that includes informal learning skills within our community of Gorebridge'

Gorebridge Community Cares purchased the former Gorebridge police station building through a Community Asset Transfer, funded by a grant from the Scottish Government’s Scottish Land Fund. We are indebted to our former Chair Ellen Scott who worked tirelessly to secure funding and create the facilities and services that make the hive the thriving centre that it is today