Gyle Shopping Centre in the Community

The Gyle School Giveaway

The Gyle School Giveaway (GSG) has been a successful competition that took place from May 26th to Sunday the 22nd of June. Seven primary schools in the local area participated to win the top prize of £1000. The runner-ups still received prizes ranging from football strips, laptops to even cash awards.

The competition involved the children recording their spending at the Gyle. Receipts were added up to see which school spent the most. Any purchase was included, from a cup of coffee to the family's weekly supermarket shop. All together a whopping total of £41,288.81 was recorded, with Fox Covert RC coming out on top as the winners.

For their winning efforts, Fox Covert RC received the £1000 prize. Corstorphine Primary received a donation that will contribute towards a new Apple Mac for the school and Gyle Muir and Carrick Knowe received new football strips.

The Gyle Management's initiatives aim to give something back to the local community and to say thanks for shopping with us.

Students' Bird Boxes are Winged Wonders

The Gyle ran a competition at the very end of last year, where students were given the opportunity to design bird boxes. Seven local primary schools participated including Canal View, Cramond, Carrick Knowe, Gyle Muir, Roseburn, Sighthill and St. Josephs' primary.

From each school, four designs were chosen and brought to life. The students' bird boxes were made by Dobbies and the final winning boxes have been placed in and around our grounds. Those we could not place have been sent to the Primary Schools for their own use.

It has been a long process due to the selection process, production of the boxes and the planning of their placement. But we are happy to say they are finally in position, with thanks to our Gardnener. There are 36 bird boxes that can be seen and the schools each have a map to locate the students' bird boxes.

With thanks to those that took part in Winged Wonders, the local birds can look forward to a warm winter with plenty of new homes around the Gyle.

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.

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Festive Shoppers Raise Over £11,000 For Local Charity

Visiting Santa at the Gyle Shopping Centre didn't just ensure that thousands of young shoppers got their festive wish it helped raise over £11,000 for a local charity.

From November 17th until December 24th nearly 4500 youngsters donated a minimum £2.50 to see Father Christmas with all the monies raised going directly to the Help A Child Appeal.