Ever fancied a role in tourism, festival organising or events management? We're hosting an info session with The University of Edinburgh on Wed 10 April (10am-noon) – all registered Access to Industry students welcome. Poster attached.

Edinburgh Festival — 2023 Edinburgh Festival Fringe @edinburgh VisitScotland

Big 🙏 to Edinburgh Zoo & Royal Zoological Society of Scotland for accommodating our PAGE Photography group's visit – letting them handle some of the animals and let loose with their cameras, capturing some stunning images ➡

📸 1 & 2 by Liz
📸 3 by Greig
📸 4 by Paul

🙏 to SCVO's 'Community Learning and Development Device Fund' for new computers for our two suites. They support students' learning, helping vulnerable individuals overcome barriers to education & employment.

Good Things Foundation #MakingDigitalForAll

Our new East Lothian Cooking Group cooked a colourful fajita rice bowl for their first meal together 🍽🥑🌶🌽🍚.

Big thanks also goes to Recycling First (in partnership with Fresh Start and supported by East Lothian Council - latest info, news & events) for the kind donation of cooking utensils.

Our funders MELDAP asked us to research how people in Mid & East Lothian w/ experience of drugs and alcohol use engage with support.

Survey: bit.ly/3vfqwy5

Pls share! Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs Health in Mind Cyrenians UK SMART Recovery Edinburgh Recovery Activities ERA Crew: Mind Altering

Coffee machines we provided (with CashBack4Communities funding) have enabled staff & individuals at Scottish Prison Service's HMP & YOI Polmont to gain their SCQF level 5 Barista Skills – the first prison in Scotland to be an accredited centre for the qualification: bit.ly/43iTWYw ☕️.

A pleasure to be at Scottish Prison Service's #IWD2024 event celebrating Lilias Centre – safe housing for low supervision women & young people.

Our own Sammy from Shine Mentoring had an info table, alongside guests incl. The Laurettes, The Wee Glesga Poet & Partick Thistle Ladies Football.

Signs of spring and pops of colour for our PAGE Photography group, who completed their end-to-end walk of the Water of Leith – here walking from from St. Mark's Park to Stockbridge.

This International Women's Day, we're shining a light on the support we can provide for women with experience of the justice system💡💡💡Hear from Shine Mentor Lucy talking about the complexity of navigating the system & how Shine will be there ✨💖 #InternationalWomensDay

tomorrow is International Womens Day Women's Day Looking forward to celebrating it with partners and colleagues across the country Access to Industry Apex Scotland Circle Barnardo's Scotland The Wise Group Turning Point Scotland @venturetrust Scottish Prison Service Scottish Government Social Work Scotland

Following on from their session using nautical artifacts as writing inspiration (see last post), our Creative Writing group were back at Historic Environment Scotland's Trinity House for a script writing session with Karen from Illuminate.

Our Creative Writing group attended an inspiring writing session at Historic Environment Scotland's Trinity House, led by Karen at Illuminate, challenging the students to write monologues from the point of view of one of the nautical artefacts laid out as inspiration 🖋.

Set up for object inspired creative writing with Access to Industry at #trinityhouseleith . What characters will these objects become?..... #LearningWithHES

Cheap and warming winter recipes are still on the menu for our Cooking Group, this time with a fragrant sausage and chickpea curry (full ingredients in image 3).

Anyone got any spring recipes for when it finally arrives?!

Midlothian Council East Lothian Council - latest info, news & events MELDAP

Our PAGE photography group enjoyed a trip to RoyalYacht Britannia, exploring the different decks and quarters of the historic ship and taking photos along the way.

Stay tuned for our next online gallery of the group's work, showcasing the images that they've been taking recently 📸.

We have a few spaces left on our Understanding Mental Health course with Edinburgh College, offering practical info, improved understanding & coping strategies around mental health and wellbeing. More here: bit.ly/49zfzpO

“I felt very privileged to be welcomed into the team and to learn about the incredible impact that shine has had on women’s lives across Scotland” listen to our latest podcast here: open.spotify.com/episode/5V7uDi…

🎧Listen to Shine Mentoring's latest podcast with National Partnership Manager haydnpasi talking about the role, #partnership & #impact
Access to Industry Apex Scotland Circle Barnardo's Scotland The Wise Group Turning Point Scotland @venturetrust Scottish Prison Service Scottish Government Social Work Scotland

The young people on our GTG Training Access to Mechanics course were boiler-suited up and hands-on this week, learning about gearbox repairs and brakes 🙌.

A big thank you to Edinburgh Greenspace for their session on microgreens and how to grow them. They also showed us how to clone herbs so you can maintain and regrow them! Great low-cost gardening tips for indoor/small spaces 💚.