About Wester Hailes Community Trust

Wester Hailes Community Trust is a new collaborative community organisation that has been established to support genuine community-led development in Wester Hailes.

The Trust is led by and accountable to its local membership. Initially it’s will focus will be on two significant steps:

Step 1:  The establishment of a locally controlled community fund that will allow local people to take forward ideas and actions to address community priorities – initially those that came out of the Wester Hailes Open Space event.

Step 2: The development and direct delivery by Wester Hailes Community Trust of projects that meet its charitable purposes.

Our Priorities

Our Priorities as decided by the local community:

• Making Wester Hailes safer for the community
  Includes raising awareness of hate crime, tackling anti-social behaviour
• Making the community better together
  Includes improving recycling, better care of green space
• Tackling Legal Highs
  Includes information for young people and community, identifying shops selling products.
• Addressing transport issues
  Includes more frequent bus routes to schools and hospitals, better rail service.
• Making better use of IT
  Includes free wi-fi, more IT classes
• Improving community facilities and unused land
  Includes spaces for young people, developing the Plaza

Read about the Open Space event where these priorities were defined.