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Award-winning writer visits Ecas
June 7, 2023
Award-winning writer Angela Jackson visits Ecas and our Reading and Creative Writing group, thanks to the Scottish Book Trust
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Our 2022 Annual Report has been published!
March 10, 2023
We are delighted to launch our Annual Report which provides a fantastic opportunity to share the things Ecas has been up to from 2021 to 2022! One of the large focuses of this Annual Report was the return to in-person activities from August 2022, somet …
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Ecas Named Edinburgh Playhouse Charity Of The Year Partner
November 7, 2022
Ecas are very pleased to announce that we are one of the three Charity Of The Year Partners at the Edinburgh Playhouse for 2022 / 2023. Ecas was selected alongside Waverley Care and Maggie’s by the staff-led Edinburgh Playhouse Charity Committee We wil …
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Ecas Services Relaunch
October 19, 2022
Due to changing circumstances of our service users during the pandemic, we have availability for most of our activities and we are keen to have new people involved and to benefit from what we do. If you operate a service, organisation or know people wh …
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Covid Precautions Following In Person Return
September 26, 2022
We understand that for many people the return to in person activities can be a daunting prospect. Following our announcement in August that our activity groups would be returning to in person, we wanted to make clear some of the steps we are taking to …
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Thank You To Our Volunteers: Volunteers’ Week 2022
June 2, 2022
This year Volunteers’ Week stretches from the first to the seventh of June, and the theme is ‘Thank You’ to all volunteers. In tune with this message it feels appropriate to talk about all the amazing work volunteers do within Ecas! Volunteers are vita …
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