ABOUT US

The Grassmarket Community Project, a partnership between the Grassmarket Mission and Greyfriars Kirk, is about is about supporting people through transitions in their lives and about re-connecting disengaged people. This is the ethos that underpins all the elements from cooking to social integration, work opportunities to social contact, advice to arts. Though founded on work with those traditionally labelled ‘homeless,’ this project has been extended to adults who are facing ‘deep social exclusion’ and have been marginalised by lack of opportunity, skills and aspiration.

GCP offers a mixture of education programs, drop-in services, social enterprise and social integration activities. Currently these are delivered through cookery, gardening, woodwork, art, music and textiles programs. Free meals are served to participants in the project as well as those in need.

Our workshop and class schedule is updated on a regular basis; this will be downloadable soon on the right side of the page.

Our centre is very easy to find and is located at 86 Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh EH1 2QA.

Feel free to contact the office for more information about anything that we do on 0131 2253626

Members of Staff:

Sue Cairns - Operations Manager

Roy Jennings - Caretaker

Jocelyn Lockhart - Plough to Plate Coordinator

Tommy Steel - GRoW Workshop Manager

Emma Galloway - Chief Executive

Crisis Skylight Edinburgh:

Ann Landels- Director

Nicola Gilcreest - Arts Development Worker