Community Projects
Currie Community Centre are active supporters of the below community projects which
YOU can help us with either by volunteering or donating goods.
Community For Food
Community For Food are a team of local volunteers who weekly pick and pack groceries, cleaning products and hygiene products to help families referred from our local schools in the Currie, Balerno and Juniper Green Villages outside Edinburgh.
Community for Food are always in need of hygiene products and non-perishable food – tins and jars of vegetables, fruit, pulses, fish and meat and larder staples of pasta, rice, noodles, dried pulses, breakfast cereals, biscuits and sweet treats.
You can drop off products at the following locations:
- Currie Community Centre Café - Saturdays 9am to 12pm during term time only
- Juniper Green Village Hall - Tuesdays and Wednesdays between 6 and 7pm
- Currie Library - During opening hours
- Scotmid in both Balerno and Currie - During opening hours
If you would like to contact Community for food please email hello@communityforfood.com
Bikes for Refugees (Scotland) aims to support the resettlement of isolated and socio-economically disadvantages New Scots through upcycling and provision of free bicycles and the transformational power of cycling.
Bicycles provide a free and sustainable means of transportation to support access to essential services as well as important way to meet new people, and to keep physically and mentally healthy.
If you have a bike to donate please complete the donation form HERE
Please do not drop bikes to the Centre without first going through 'bikes for refugees'.
Fresh Start is an Edinburgh based charity helping people who have experienced homelessness establish themselves in their new home, through the provisions of goods and services.
Currie Community Centre is working with Fresh start to arrange drop off days at the Centre for goods which will help provide people 'starter packs' for their new homes.
If you have a donation please first email info@curriecommunitycentre.org to arrange drop off. Please do not drop by without first making arrangements.