North East
Leith Wellbeing Services
Citadel Youth Centre Wellbeing Programme
We offer individual and group support through our wellbeing programme.
The Citadel offers support for young people aged 12-19, including 1:1 support and a wellbeing group work programme.
Contact: 0131 554 0510 .
Counselling at the Junction
You can have space to talk about things that are worrying you, in confidence with a qualified counsellor. This can help you to make sense of your emotions and support your well-being.
The Junction can offer up to 20 sessions of counselling for young people aged 12 to 21.
Contact: 0131 553 0570
Tinderbox
Tinderbox Feel Good music project is helping young people in North East Edinburgh express themselves through music!
Our musician-in-residence at Craigmillar Library is running weekly music sessions on Monday afternoons. We are offering instrumental lessons, drop-in sessions and short courses. You can pick an instrument from the loan collection at Criagmillar Library have a go at that or take part in creative music-making sessions.
Contact Craigmillar Library or contact jenny@tinderboxproject.co.uk for more information.
Portobello Busking Band is an exciting new group who have started playing together at Portobello Library from 4:30 - 6pm on Wednesday afternoons during term time. We’re learning to play songs that make us feel good as a group and working towards taking the music to the streets to spread good vibes in the neighbourhood! Ages 10 - 18.
Contact niki@tinderboxproject.co.uk for more info.
From grass-roots youth work to award-winning arts and music productions, Tinderbox Collective are a creative community of young people, musicians, artists and youth workers. Tinderbox aims to ignite a spark in people – one which fills them with confidence, imagination and sense of possibility, and which enables people to achieve things they never thought possible. Our work uses music and the arts to bring people together and strengthen communities, providing exciting opportunities that support young people to build their confidence, skills, self-esteem, and professional experience.
Young Carers
There are an estimated 29,000 young carers in Scotland. Being a young carer can mean different things to different people. Perhaps you might support a relative or a friend from time to time or be responsible for providing care for an adult at home for most of every week. If you think you might be a young carer it can be helpful to speak to an adult you trust about it. If you aren’t sure if you are a young carer
If you are a young carer you are entitled to support. There are three young carer services in Edinburgh. They work together across the whole of Edinburgh and each service covers a different area. offers support in East Edinburgh including places like Leith, City Centre, Craigentinny, Duddingston, Portobello, Craigmillar, South Central, Liberton and Gilmerton.
Edinburgh Young Carers offers support for people aged 5鈥痶o 20 years old who care for or are affected by someone else at home - usually a parent, brother or sister. The person they care for may suffer from:鈥痟ealth problems or other problems like drug or alcohol misuse.鈥�
They can tell you more about the support they can give you and you can contact them at info@youngcarers.org.uk鈥� or 0131 475 2322
North East Edinburgh Systemic Family Therapist
Systemic Family Therapy offers a safe, non-judgmental space where families can explore changes or difficulties within family relationships. Sessions can help families to address issues together, helping to ease stress and improve how family members interact with one another. Systemic Family therapy is suitable for children, young people, parents/carers and family members of all ages.
Some blocks of Systemic Family Therapy sessions are available this term for free for families in Edinburgh with children aged 5 to 21 years. Priority will be given to families living in the Portobello and Niddrie area. Sessions last 60 minutes and families attend each week. There will be some online and evening sessions available and in person sessions will be available on a Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday at
Northfield and Willowbrae Community Centre,10 Northfield Road, EH8 7PP
For more information or to make an application, contact the North East Systemic Family Therapist
Mal.Zbikowska@edinburgh.gov.uk