Morningside Umbrella Festival update

Volunteers Needed for Charity Bag Packing Event at Waitrose – Can you spare an hour on Saturday 21st March between 3:30pm and 6:30pm. Children are welcome. Many hands make light work and help us raise lots of money. Get in touch with Kerry Watt with your availability.

A Coffee Morning with a Difference – Saturday March 21st at the Morningside Club, 3 Morningside Park. What’s the difference? It’s from 1pm until 5pm and we are serving Fizz and Gin. Just turn up on the day and bring a friend. If you are able to provide some delicious home baking for this event it would be much appreciated

Edinburgh Telephone Choir – Friday 17th April In April, we would urge you to attend the special concert being held by the Edinburgh Telephone Choir, entry Is by donation and all monies raised will go towards the Umbrella Festival so please tell family and friends.

Tesco Colinton Tombola –  Saturday 18th April. Volunteers are still required for 30-minute slots between 10 and 3:30pm. If you can help please let Kerry know.

Charity Wine Tasting Evening hosted by Drinkmonger (Bruntsfield) – this event is sold out.

An Evening With Keith Jack – Friday 12th June, 7.30pm in the Church. Tickets now on sale and will be available to church members (and family and friends) for 3 more weeks before going on sale to the general public. Keith is from Edinburgh and has enjoyed London West End success over the last 15 years, playing to huge audiences across the world. Tickets priced from £30 – £40 available from Kerry Watt. For further information about any of the above please contact Kerry Watt on 07530 971367 or email kerryelgey@hotmail.co.uk

NEW …..The Morningside Umbrella Festival Recipe Book – We have received a fabulous suggestion to compile a Morningside Umbrella Festival Recipe book, and with your help would like to try and have something produced to sell at our Festival. We hope to have 50 of your favourite recipes with a couple of sentences explaining why you have chosen to share your recipe. You are welcome to submit more than one recipe but depending on submissions it may be necessary to limit to one per person. If we receive more than one recipe for the same or very similar item you may be asked to submit a different recipe. If you are keen to be part of this project, please ask me to reserve you a page. You should then submit your recipe in a typed word format with ingredients in metric to kerryelgey@hotmail.co.uk by the 23rd of April 2026.