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Residentials

Nethy Station Hostel

Nethy Bridge
tel: 01479 821370
www.nethy.org

Designed to cater for budget groups and has proved very popular with many of the visitors returning again and again. It has triple bunks allowing greater flexibility for either filling the house to make it even cheaper per head, or perhaps for the storage of luggage etc.

Pilton Retreat

70 Baird Road
Ratho
tel: 0131 333 1659
piltonretreat_ratho@hotmail.com

Self catering for up to 22 people. Groups have exclusive use of all facilities during their visit including: lounge with TV/DVD music system, games room with pool table, kitchen, 3 shower rooms, BBQ, picnic areas and outdoor play area with flying fox, football goals, swings etc. They can also provide a driver and mini-bus transport.

Resources

Lothian Association of Youth Clubs

tel: 0131 667 1828
fax: 0131 667 9862
enquiries@layc.org.uk
www.layc.org.uk

LAYC is the largest non-uniformed, voluntary sector youth and children's work organisation covering the City of Edinburgh, East, Mid and West Lothian areas. LAYC has 143 affiliated groups; 14,854 children and young people and 1,275 adult staff. They run training courses and their bulletins can be very useful especially if you are looking for youth work.

Spark in the Dark

tel: 01506 811178
www.sparkinthedark.org
jim@sparkinthedark.org

Offers training, consultancy and practical work to play providers.

Edinburgh Inclusive

tel:0131 476 4506
george@theyardscotland.org.uk
www.theyardscotland.org.uk

Edinburgh Inclusive provides training for the after school childcare sector, mainly for staff who work with 5 – 12 year olds. Based at The Yard Adventure Centre, it supports the childcare sector with visits and telephone support. Training courses include e.g. autism awareness, challenging behaviour, ADHD, Dyspraxia, Disability Awareness training, Signalong Sign Language, Down’s syndrome, Anti-bullying and others.

suggestions@youthgroupcontacts.co.uk

The information on these pages is correct to the best of our knowledge, but we take no responsibility for inaccuracies and recommend you check details directly yourself.