Santa's Grotto - Opening Hours

It's just not Christmas without a visit to Santa's Grotto at The Gyle. Kids can come along to meet Santa, deliver their Christmas list to him, and receive a special Christmas gift on behalf of the Gyle Management Team. There's a minimum donation of £2.50 to visit the Grotto, with all of the proceeds going towards Cash For Kids. Thanks to you, last year we raised over £11,000!

NOVEMBER

Thur 27th to Sun 30th: 11am-5pm

DECEMBER

Thur 4th to Fri 5th: noon-7pm

Sat 6th: 11am-6pm

Sun 7th: 11am-5pm

Thur 11th to Tues 23rd: 11am-7pm

Wed: 24th 10am-3pm

Last entry will be 30 minutes before Grotto closing time.

Music & Carol Singing

It wouldn't be Christmas without music and carols. Come along to Gyle to hear some of your favourite traditional carols being sung.

We're being joined by a whole host of groups from across the area on the run-up to Christmas, all helping to raise money for charity as the perform.

Thursday 4th December 6pm - 10pm: Dalkeith brass

Saturday 6th: Kingdom Brass

Sunday 7 December 12 noon - 3pm: Harmony 21

Tuesday 9th December 6pm - 10pm: Dalkeith brass

Thursday 11 December 6pm - 7.30pm: Edinburgh Grand Opera

Friday 12th December: Queensferry Music

Saturday 13th December: Kingdom Brass

Sunday 14 December 3.30pm - 4.45pm: The Blackhall Suzuki Violin Group will play a range of traditional carols that everyone, no matter what your age, can sing along to.

Monday 15 December 6.00pm - 7.30pm: Juniper Green Primary School with traditional festive songs accompanied by the recorder

Tuesday 16 December 9.30am - 3pm: Barnardo's with the help of Primary Schools classes will raise the roof with a mixture of traditional and modern songs plus their own festive composition of a rock classic

Tuesday 16 December 6.30pm: Heriot Watt University Choir

Wednesday 17 December 6.45pm - 8.15pm: PBC Foundation Carol Singers, raising money to support sufferers of the chronic liver disease, Primary Biliary Cirrhosis.

Thursday 18 December 6.30pm - 8pm: Salvation Army Carol Cingers

Friday 19th December: Kingdom Brass

Saturday 20th December: Lochgelly Brass

Sunday 21st December: Tullis Russell

Tuesday 23 December 11am - 4pm: Salvation Army Carol Cingers

Gift Wrapping

Fed up trying to figure out how to wrap those awkwardly-shaped Christmas presents? Here's the answer - the charity fundraising gift wrapping service.

From Monday, December 1st until Christmas Eve you will be able to have your presents beautifully wrapped by volunteers from Balerno Rotary Club, Oxfam and the Teenage Cancer Trust.

All we ask is that you make a donation to the charity's coffers for every gift wrapped. Also this year we have the ladies from Hutchison Vale doing it for themselves.

Balerno Rotary Club – From December 13th until December 24th

Oxfam- December 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 8th, 9th and 10th

Teenage Cancer Trust – December 15th - 19th

Hutchison Vale Ladies – December 21st and 23rd

M&Co - 20% Off All Kids Clothes

M&Co are helping to make your money go further this Christmas - they're taking 20% off all their kids clothes. Visit M&Co's Friends Night website to receive your special discount leaflet, then print it off and bring it along between December 5th and Christmas Eve to receive your 20% discount on everything from M&Co's superb kids clothes range. See instore for full details.

Click here to get your M&Co Friends Night discount leaflet.

Playhouse Theatre Box Office

It's now even easier to book tickets for shows at The Playhouse Theatre in Edinburgh. They have opened a special Box Office right here, and will be open until Sunday December 21st. So, next time in you're in doing your Christmas shopping at Gyle, you can organise a trip to the theatre at the same time.

Bethany Christian Trust

You can order a Caring Christmas Tree from Bethany Christian Trust in the Mall. It will ready for collection for you on 12/13 December. For every tree purchased at Gyle, a homeless person will receive a hot meal, bed for the night, and breakfast plus some good advice. Help Bethany Christian Trust to help homeless people this Christmas. Drop into the Centre for all the details.

Leap Year Lovers Bring Smiles To The Gyle

Loved-up Tiffany Luscombe, from Edinburgh, took Cupid's bow into her own hands when she took advantage of leap year tradition and proposed to her boyfriend at the Gyle Shopping Centre on February 29th.

The 19-year-old got down on bended knee to pop the question to her unsuspecting boyfriend of four years Ross Dunn (20), also from Edinburgh, in a specially designated proposal area – and hit the target when he said yes!

Tiffany was one of over 100 women who entered the Gyle's Leap Year search to find a lady to fulfil the romantic tradition.

As well as landing a fiancé, the customer service assistant at Royal Bank of Scotland's Drummond House received a £1500 diamond ring courtesy of the Gyle Shopping Centre and Robert Anthony jewellers as well as a luxury weekend break at Norton House Hotel.

You can read the full story by downloading our press release.

The first TEN Nail Boutique outlet is moving to the Mall at the Gyle Shopping Centre.

They specialise in hand and nail care, and gel nails for those special occasions where you really don't want any chips in your nail polish.

With 4 nail stations, why not book a treat and come along for some girly time with your friends? Drop an email to now or call 0131 339 7722.