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Edinburgh Reporter
5 days ago
- Business
- Edinburgh Reporter
Vennie secures almost £50,000 in new funding
A Livingston community venture which provides a base for youth groups and a well-used Food Outlet has secured almost £50,000 of new funding. The Vennie which has served hundreds of children in Knightsridge since it was first set up 16 years ago hopes to develop new benefits to youngsters in the hard-hit area. The youth club has seen a surge in the number of youngsters joining in the last year with almost 250 signing up. Jen McCusker, the youth co-ordinator who was appointed along with new trustees last August said a redrawn timetable enabled the Vennie to offer two clubs a week to youngsters from primary age up to 17. Alongside sports there are art and drama clubs as well as practical skills courses. Councillor Andrew Miller works with other volunteers and customers at the Vennie food outlet in the Mosswood community centre in Knightsridge. Copyright Reach. The venture has now secured an award of £14,000 of funding for two years from the National Lottery's Community Fund to develop their bike project. The funding will allow the Vennie to hire a Bike Library Technician to develop and manage a new bike lending scheme as well as run bike maintenance classes and encourage cycling and skills development. The Vennie is also converting the office within its building to a library/sensory room. At the Mosswood Community Centre where the Vennie runs its successful Food Outlet, volunteers are supporting young people from Ogilvie School Campus to open and run the café on Friday mornings. Julie Henderson who runs the Food Outlet told the Local Democracy Reporting Service that the outlet would also see the return of a benefits advice officer. The Vennie has also been successful in applying for funding through the Third Sector Community Support Fund, securing an award of £33,157 which will run from July 2025 – June 2026. The group had previously received two-year funding from the TSCSF for the period of July 2023 – June 2025. The funding will be used to support the core work of the project including the Food Outlet, community garden, bike library and youth programmes. A report to the Livingston North Local Area Community by the council's Community regeneration Officer Scott McKillop added: 'This recognises the Vennie as a community anchor organisation for Knightsridge and wider Livingston North, and their capacity to develop community responses to local needs.' Alongside Jen McCusker, the Vennie boosted its team of trustees to include former local MP Hannah Bardell. Another long-term supporter of both the youth club and Food Outlet is local SNP councillor Andrew Miller. The Vennie also celebrated a major boost last Autumn with the opening a new kitchen in their youth club supplied with an £8,000 donation from supermarket chain Morrisons Chairing the local area committee. Councillor Anne McMillan said: 'It's fantastic about the Vennie getting the £14,000 for the bike library. Well done. 'We had a presentation from the Vennie team not that long ago and it was fantastic, so it's great to see they are getting rewarded for the effort they are putting in there.' By Stuart Sommerville, Local Democracy Reporter Like this: Like Related
Scottish Sun
24-05-2025
- Business
- Scottish Sun
Kate Forbes is set to sack Ferguson Marine's chairman amid ferry fiasco
Eye-watering costs of boat drama have been revealed Click to share on X/Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) KATE Forbes is set to sack Ferguson Marine's chairman, we can reveal. Government sources claim there is 'no chance' she'll extend Andrew Miller's stint at the scandal-hit ferry-building firm. Sign up for the Politics newsletter Sign up 2 Ferry chairman Andrew Miller appeared before the Public Audit Committee Credit: PA The Deputy First Minister would make the decision in her other role as Economy Secretary. It comes after the taxpayer-owned shipyard pushed back the MV Glen Rosa's delivery by another nine months. Find out what's really going on Register now for our free weekly politics newsletter for an insightful and irreverent look at the (sometimes excruciating) world of Scottish Politics. Every Thursday our hotshot politics team goes behind the headlines to bring you a rundown of key events - plus insights and gossip from the corridors of power, including a 'Plonker' and 'Star' of the Week. Sign up now and make sure you don't miss a beat. The politicians would hate that. SIGN UP FOR FREE NOW Sister ship MV Glen Sannox entered service seven years late in January. And the pair's combined cost has rocketed to £460million. An insider said: 'The only person Kate Forbes can sack for this mess is Miller. "His three-year contract is up in November. There's no chance she'll renew it.' Mr Miller was appointed in 2022 — weeks after claims emerged that the contract for the ferries was 'rigged' in favour of the yard in Port Glasgow, Renfrewshire. Russell Findlay quickfire Q&A UK Election fallout & buying Liam Gallagher's mum a drink Last March he signed off on the sacking of ex-chief exec David Tydeman. In February he was slammed for telling a Holyrood committe that criticism of Ferguson was 'like raising a child and abusing it'. Asked about his future, a Scottish Government spokesman said: 'Ministers have not made a decision beyond the current contracted time-frame — and any suggestion otherwise is completely untrue.' It comes after the scandal-hit shipyard lost out to a Polish yard on a key contract in a possible 'death knell' for the yard. The small vessels replacement programme - a contract to build seven small new ferries for the CalMac network - was instead awarded to Remontowa. The Polish yard infamously missed out in 2014 when Nats ministers made the decision to give the contract for two ferries to Ferguson Marine, sparking a decade-long scandal. Insiders have warned for years Ferguson needed to win the contract in order to stay afloat long-term.
Yahoo
20-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Voters in Central Bucks School District to cast their ballots for school board directors
Four seats on the Central Bucks school board are up for election this year with eight candidates vying for those spots. The winners of the party primaries will face off in the November general election, seeking either a two-year or four-year term in Regions 2 and 3 in a district that has experienced a tidal wave of controversy, including a federal court ruling which found district officials in violation of the Equal Pay Act and investigations into abuse allegations at Jamison Elementary School. All eight candidates are cross-filed, which means they will each appear on both Democratic and Republican ballots in the regions they would represent. The primary is Tuesday and polls are open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m. and mail-in ballots must be returned by 8 p.m. Bucks County election results will be available Tuesday night after the polls close. Candidates running for a four-year term in Region 2 (vote for one): Andrew Miller, registered to vote as a Republican Amanda O'Connor Candidates running for a two-year term in Region 3 (vote for one): Brenda Bagonis, registered to vote as a Republican David Comalli, registered to vote as a Democrat Candidates running for a four-year term in Region 3 (vote for two): Katrina O. Filiatrault, registered to vote as a Democrat Daniel Kimicata, registered to vote as a Democrat Elizabeth Betty Santoro, registered to vote as a Republican Roman Szewczuk, registered to vote as a Republican This article originally appeared on Bucks County Courier Times: Central Bucks school board primary election includes eight candidates
West Australian
11-05-2025
- Politics
- West Australian
Andrew Miller Conclave review: Gender disparity remains the elephant in the room for the Catholic church
opinion Andrew Miller Conclave review: Gender disparity remains the elephant in the room for the Catholic church
Time Magazine
08-05-2025
- Health
- Time Magazine
Andrew Miller
Developing a new treatment for any psychiatric condition is already a formidable challenge, but finding one for schizophrenia comes with added complexity. In 2024, a new drug Andrew Miller helped to develop, Cobenfy, was approved to treat schizophrenia, the first new medication using a novel approach for the condition in decades. Existing drugs target the dopamine system of brain chemicals, while Cobenfy focuses on the muscarinic system, which avoids many of the side effects of existing medications that lead 60% or more of patients to stop taking them. Miller tested over 7,000 compounds before discovering that combining one that targeted the muscarinic system with a drug for treating overactive bladders could effectively work on just the muscarinic receptors in the brain to control schizophrenia symptoms and avoid activating them in other parts of the body. Since the bladder treatment had 'nothing to do with psychiatry, it was a pretty out-of-the-box approach,' says Miller. But it worked.
