Welcome to Starcatchers Saturdays

Every Saturday at:
Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes
Babies from birth to 18 months: 11am – 12 noon
Children from birth to 5 years: 12 noon – 1.15pm

Join Starcatchers every weekend for a free creative play session for families with little ones aged birth to five years-old.

Based in the Westside Plaza, Wester Hailes, we’re easy to find and everyone is welcome to drop-in.

Starcatchers’ Saturdays explores different art forms and themes every week, inspired by what the wee ones who join us enjoy most! From a desert camp-out adventure, to underwater exploring, to singing with shapes and shadows, each session is full of exciting new activities for wee ones and their adults to discover together. You can also join us for a free lunch!

To find out more about Starcatchers Saturdays, email lead artist Kerry Cleland, or just pop along!

A huge thankyou to our Starcatchers’ Saturdays Crowdfunder supporters: Timothea Armour, Alison Cleland, Eric Donohoe, Brian Hartley and Natalya McDonald

Community Wellbeing Collective

Wester Hailes’ Community Wellbeing Collective  (C.W.C.) is a group of 30+ people living in and connected to Wester Hailes who run activities to support community wellbeing.

The CWC run the Community Wellbeing Space in Wester Hailes’ Westside Plaza shopping centre. The space provides free community wellbeing activities, run by CWC members, to enhance health, wellbeing, local action and to help Wester Hailes people feel more connected to their community.

Through their program, the CWC aims to combat a range of issues such as negative effects of poverty, social isolation and low mental health. They do this through the open space and communal activities offered at the Community Wellbeing Space, which include mindfulness, zumba, creative writing, care cafes, baby creative play, yoga, tango and colour meditation (to name a few). These activities and communities create a new space where the people of Wester Hailes can come together to knit tighter support networks, develop skills, connect to further resources, and not only survive but thrive.