Author name: Elizabeth Hampson

We are thrilled to announce that MCFB has been awarded a £20,000 grant from the Scottish Children’s Lottery. Marise Gowenlock, Early Years Service Manager at Multi-Cultural Family Base, said: “We are delighted to have been awarded a grant from the Scottish Children’s Lottery which will support our therapeutic work with infants and mothers who have experienced abusive […]

MCFB have been successful in securing short term funding from Random Arts Giving to run a new weekly Creative Nurture Group at Leith Community Centre aimed at women who have experienced trauma or a difficult experience that has left them with unpleasant memories.  Women attending the group will benefit from a series of group art therapy sessions

MCFB is delighted to have been successful in winning £3,450 from the Aviva Community Fund for our ‘Time for Togetherness’ project. The money will be used to help fund 3 multicultural ceilidhs and a summer barbecue in 2018. It will provide a chance for 100 children and parents to meet new people and make friends and

Becoming 20 Although it sometimes seems hard to believe, Multi-Cultural Family Base will be 20 years old on 1st March.  We started out in a small damp Leith basement room in Smith’s Place (off Leith Walk) with a borrowed computer, a volunteer manager and £5k to our name.  The ethos of MCFB was the same then

Multi-Cultural Family Base will be closed from Monday 25th December 2017 until Monday 8th January 2018. We wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a peaceful and Happy New Year and leave you with a picture from a Christmas craft activity with our Chinese families.

Our first monthly blog comes from one of our students, Wenzhao Sun, who was on placement with us during the summer/autumn 2017.  My name is Wenzhao. In China, my name means “the exhibition of literature talent.” I was born in a middle-class family. My father is a geologist, and my mother is a housewife. When

We are excited to announce a new partnership project with the Citadel Youth Centre designed to encourage more BME children to take part in youth groups held at the Leith based centre. The work is a continuation of MCFB’s new ‘Footprints’ inclusion project that seeks to address the issue of inclusion of disadvantaged Black and Minority Ethnic

It is really hard to say farewell to one longstanding and highly valued member of staff, but to do so for three people feels an impossibility. Boon, Janice and Lorraine have contributed so much to MCFB and each has made her own unique contribution to its successful development over a great many years. I’m told

Children between the ages of 4 and 7 from mostly Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) families are set to benefit from an award of £204,660 over three years made to the 4-2-7 project at MCFB. The money, from the National Lottery, will be used to work with vulnerable children, mainly from refugee and asylum