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Edinburgh Laughter Club, Scotland’s longest running community laughter club has celebrated five years of occupancy at the Eric Liddell Centre. In the half decade that Laughter for Health has ran sessions at Centre, based in South Edinburgh, they have raised a total of £8,305 for the care charity and community […]

The Eric Liddell Centre this week launched a joint project with the Celtic FC Foundation aimed at providing respite for people with dementia patients and their carers. Following a range of fundraising events across six wonderful days last May, honouring the 50th anniversary of Celtic’s 1967 European Cup victory, the […]

Alexander McCall Smith CBE has penned an original poem to be auctioned off as part of the inaugural Eric Liddell Centre Fundraising Dinner which is taking place next month. The original poem will be handwritten by the 44 Scotland Street author with guests and fans alike now able to place bids online […]

Scottish Rugby is re-issuing the Scotland cap of Olympic hero and former rugby union international player, Eric Liddell, which was lost over the decades. Eric’s daughter, Patricia Russell, is traveling almost 5,000 miles from her home in Canada to Edinburgh to accept the unique cap in her father’s honour at […]

Scottish Rugby’s points-record holder Chris Paterson MBE and award-winning author Alexander McCall Smith CBE have joined forces ahead of The Eric Liddell Centre’s inaugural fundraising dinner. The pair met ahead of The Going for Gold Fundraising Gala, which is taking place on 5 December at the Sheraton Grand in Edinburgh, […]

November 1 – 7 is Befriending Week 2017. To mark this we are hosting a ‘Meet the Befriender’ afternoon to provide information about the Befriending Services we offer to carers in Edinburgh. This will take place from 2.30pm – 4.00pm on Tuesday 7th November This is an excellent opportunity to […]

The Going for Gold Inaugural Eric Liddell Centre Fundraising Gala will be held at the Sheraton Grand on Tuesday, December 5th.  We are fortunate to have secured two fantastic speakers for this event: award winning author Alexander McCall Smith and international rugby player Chris Paterson.  The night is being MC’d […]

The daughter of Scottish Olympic gold medallist, Eric Liddell, has written a book about the man she never met.   Maureen Liddell Moore is one of three children and was three years old when her father died in 1945 whilst he was being kept captive in the Japanese World War II Weihsien Internment Camp in […]

The Eric Liddell Centre has become the latest recipient of a public access defibrillator through St John Scotland’s ‘St John and the City’ project. The ‘St John and the City Public Access Defibrillator Project’, which has been backed by Edinburgh’s Lord Provost, has now placed over 130 life-saving defibrillators across […]