Greater Craigmillar is a suburb on the south-east of Edinburgh incorporating several areas including Craigmillar, Niddrie, Bingham, and Newcraighall. It is bounded by Holyrood Park, the historic Craigmillar Castle and the new Edinburgh Royal Infirmary, and is currently undergoing massive regeneration. The area has a strong history of community activism and has been home to the Craigmillar Festival for more than 40 years. Once the site of industries including brewing and mining, Craigmillar has been characterised by social deprivation but is home to a fiercely proud community, and s1craigmillar.com has been developed to allow residents share their news, views and opinions, make announcements, publicise events and show off their photos and videos.

Welcome to s1craigmillar

Welcome to s1craigmillar – a new type of community website which puts you in control.

s1craigmillar is a platform for local people to tell each other what's happening in the village.

You can talk about local issues, post pictures and video, place free small ads, announce events, or just show off something you think is interesting.

Unlike traditional media, we’re not about reporting news. Nobody knows better about what’s going on in Craigmillar than the people who live there – and s1craigmillar is your space to tell each other all about it.

Bands can announce concerts, football teams can post their fixtures and results, Scout groups can announce jumble sales, photographers can show everyone their pictures, and amateur historians can talk about the past.

You can raise a petition, organise a meeting or sell your fridge - the format is very flexible, and it will be completely free.

If you’re involved in a local group, business or organisation, you can even set up a mini-site of your own within s1craigmillar. Even if you already have a website, a mini-site on s1craigmillar is likely to attract a broader range of people, and you can link to your existing site from it.

This new breed of community websites is the work of s1, the online division of Herald & Times Group, and we'll use our experience with setting up quality websites to make sure s1craigmillar looks good, works well, and isn't allowed to slowly die off, like so many community sites do.

But in order for s1craigmillar to work, we need to hand it over to you. We'll moderate the site for legal reasons - just to avoid defamation and indecency, which means there will be a short delay between posting and publishing - but there's absolutely no point in us deciding what's interesting to the people of Craigmillar.

We're happy to help, advise and make things work, but s1craigmillar is for Craigmillar people to do with as they please.

It will always be free to post content to s1craigmillar. Local businesses will eventually also be offered the opportunity to advertise.

What are you waiting for? Sign in and get posting!

Do you have any suggestions for the future development of s1craigmillar? Email content@s1craigmillar.com