Positive reaction from Scottish Parliament to museum petition

The Scottish Parliament Public Petitions Committee considered our petition again on February 19th. This is what they agreed:

The Committee agreed to seek a further response from the City of Edinburgh Council on what practical and financial support it can and will give to progress the establishment of a Leith Museum. It also agreed to seek a response from the Scottish Government on what action it will take to encourage applications and provide practical assistance, for example through capital grant funding, to assist supporters wishing to establish local museums and, on this specific proposal, whether it will consider establishing a working group to help progress this matter further. It also agreed to write to Scottish Enterprise to seek an update on the current waterfront visitor destination development plan.
These organisations have been asked to respond by 25 April......

Here is a link to the Petitions Committee website which shows what they have been doing.

3072 say YES to a Leith Museum!

Our petition to the Scottish Parliament goes back to its petitions committee on Tuesday 19 February. You can read here all the responses the Parliament received when it consulted various organisations about the petition, together with our own campaign´s further comments in response. The Scottish Parliament website also confirms that our petition was supported by a total of 3072 signatures (and of course, we´ve had more since the petition was submitted!).