22 July 2024

Capital College shortlisted for Green Gown Award

 

Edinburgh College has been shortlisted in the Benefitting Society category at this year’s Green Gown Awards – a prestigious Sustainability-focused awards programme organised by the Environmental Association for Universities and Colleges (EAUC).

The awards recognise, celebrate, and share the most impactful and innovative sustainability action across the post-16 education sector.

The College has been named a finalist following the success of its EC Sessions programme which provides a safe and welcoming space for young people from the local community and across Edinburgh to have meaningful non-formal music-making opportunities on a weekly basis.

With inclusiveness at its heart and the belief that everyone deserves music, the project gives the young people who attend the autonomy to choose their instruments and the music they play no matter their level of ability or experience.

This is at the core of the project’s vision: a way to experience college that helps young people to see a place that is for them. For some, it's meant a gentle route into studying at the college, for others, EC Sessions has simply been a place to come to learn, play, compose and record music. 

EC Sessions has welcomed over 70 young people since its inception and offers so much more than just an opportunity to play music. It has also offered a community a place where they feel welcome and connected, where they can be themselves, and feel supported to explore their own musical interests and talents without the pressures that life (and exams) can offer.

By its nature, the EC Sessions project aligns to two of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals:

3. Good Health and Wellbeing: ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages
4. Quality Education: ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all