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We’re Edinburgh Playhouse’s Charity Of The Year
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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Welcome Back to our in-person groups
March 10, 2022
Ecas is very excited to announce the return of in-person activities to the line up of what we have on offer.
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David’s befriending story
November 3, 2021
“In short, the experience of befriending proved to be a massively positive part of my life and hopefully that of my befriendee.”
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