Porty Podcast
1) 333 Bellfield's Big Build
Send us a text The Bellfield Community Hub has been one of Portobello's success stories. But it's a story with a future and this afternoon the next phase of that story - Bellfield's Big Build - will b...Show More
2) Community Champion Hazel Darwin-Clements
Send us a textFor the second year in a row, Cycling UK have presented awards to two individuals who have worked hard to promote cycling as a healthy means of getting around. This year’s “Community Cha...Show More
3) 331 Beatles Marathon
Send us a textThe Beatles are the best-selling music act of all time, with an estimated 600 million records sold worldwide. Between 1962 and 1970, The Fab Four wrote and recorded 188 of their own song...Show More
4) Promo for 331 Beatles Marathon 24
Send us a textYou may have heard about the Beatles Marathon coming to Porty Town Hall at the weekend. Well, I managed to catch up with one of the main organisers, Stuart McGachan, after what he descri...Show More
5) 330 Edinburgh Tool Library at 10
Send us a textOne of the most popular episodes of the Porty Podcast was back in 2018 when the Edinburgh Tool Library arrived in Portobello. The library and workshop moved into the same building as Tri...Show More
6) 329 RepairMongery
Send us a textIf you go along to Porty Community Fridge this morning, you’ll see something a bit different. Today sees the launch of what they’re calling the RepairMongery. The hope is that people wil...Show More
7) 328 Portobello Book Festival
Send us a textEarlier this week, the programme for the Portobello Book Festival was launched. Throughout the first weekend in October, the library will be buzzing with writers launching new books, tal...Show More
8) 327 Life Care's The Cottage - Support for those living with dementia
Send us a Text Message.Dementia affects around 90,000 people in Scotland. Across the UK, the total is currently around a million. Those figures however are expected to increase by 50% by 2050. That wi...Show More
9) 326 St Mark's Church
Send us a Text Message.St Mark’s Episcopal Church in the High Street has received some good news. The National Churches Trust has awarded it a £100,000 grant to help preserve this historic Georgian bu...Show More
10) 325 Award Winning Towerbank Primary
Send us a Text Message.Here at The Porty Podcast, we were delighted to learn that a group of primary school children at Towerbank had come top in their age-group in a programme called ‘Academy 9’. The...Show More