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Widening participation event for refugee and minorities families, co-hosted by Multi-Cultural Family Base, the University of Edinburgh, Heriot-Watt University and Edinburgh Napier University. We are excited to be co-hosting a universities family day to encourage more young people from the migrant, refugee and minoritiescommunities into university education. The event will take place on Saturday 24th June […]

Parents and children from both established Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) and new migrant groups came together at Leith Community Centre on 15th February for a multi-cultural musical event, jointly organized by Citizen Curator and Multi-Cultural Family Base. The half-term social event was open to families accessing services at MCFB and made possible by funding from

Giving Tuesday is a day of giving that was started in the US and follows Thanksgiving, Black Friday and Cyber Monday. It is, however, gathering popularity in the UK and this year on the 29th of November an estimated 4.5 million people across the UK did something to support a good cause whether donating money, fundraising,

To celebrate an additional 3 years’ of funding for our Banyan Project, we held a launch and art exhibition at the Out of the Blue Drill Hall on 24th May. Speakers at the launch included Prof Viviene Cree of University of Edinburgh Social Work department and Claire Cochrane, engagement manager at Stills Gallery. We are

12 young BME girls aged between 12 and 16 who have caring responsibilities for a family member in Edinburgh are set to benefit from an award of £6,001 made to the Yolo Sistas project at MCFB. The money, from the Creative Breaks Fund and provided by the Scottish Government, will be used to help improve

We are delighted to announce that we were successful in securing a grant of £109,277 from Comic Relief to be used over 3 years for our Banyan Project. Boon Drysdale, Project Leader, said she was looking forward to continuing the valuable work with young people affected by domestic violence and wanted to thank all staff, students