{"id":39175,"date":"2025-04-21T20:05:16","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/39175\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T20:05:16","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T20:05:16","slug":"i-started-an-edinburgh-group-to-make-friends-and-am-gobsmacked-at-the-result","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/39175\/","title":{"rendered":"‘I started an Edinburgh group to make friends and am gobsmacked at the result’"},"content":{"rendered":"

An English woman has opened up on her experience of organising a new event after moving to Edinburgh and feeling “isolated”.<\/p>\n

Rosie Maddocks moved to the capital from Manchester two years ago with her partner and says it was a hard experience trying to make new friends.<\/p>\n

The 29-year-old became her own clientele and started brainstorming ways to build connections with people. She created Social Appetite – an event that will bring Edinburgh people together through their love of food.<\/p>\n

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After selling out the first event back in February, Rosie is happy with how the venture is coming together – and has even made friendship connections of her own.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Edinburgh Live, she said: “I was really nervous about how the first event was going to go but since it all has started, people have met up outside the events already which is really great.<\/p>\n

“It’s been really nice seeing a community come together. I have made connections of my own too.<\/p>\n

\"People<\/p>\n

People of all ages are welcome<\/p>\n

“There was a couple that came to one of the events and we have been for drinks with them, we went on a walk with them yesterday too. It\u2019s been really interesting to see it all unfold and I am really happy with it.”<\/p>\n

Rosie organises regular evenings throughout the capital at different restaurants each month. The ticketed event includes a three course meal picked by the chef and interactive games. The fifth event is set to take place on Tuesday, April 29, at Spanish Tapas Restaurant – Tapa.<\/p>\n

Rosie added: “There’s been a mix of genders and ages too which is surprising. Considering the first event was in February, I am just hoping to grow it. It is really hard work but it\u2019s what I signed up to do.”<\/p>\n

\"Several<\/p>\n

Several events have been organised in the capital<\/p>\n

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In a previous interview with Rosie, she said after moving to the capital she found it hard to make friends.<\/p>\n

“I moved up here on a whim and moving to a new city made it a really hard experience for me to make friends. I found it hard to put myself out there in different groups and things”, she added.<\/p>\n

“I began to realise I was quite good at making people feel comfortable and putting them at ease. I have never felt fulfilled in jobs I have done – I used to work for Deliveroo and I have always been super passionate about trying new food.<\/p>\n

“I also really enjoy meeting new people and learning their story, which I think is quite unusual. I couldn’t find anywhere that would bring my passions for food and meeting new people together so I was my own clientele really.<\/p>\n

“I decided to create the community myself because I completely empathise with people moving to a new city and feeling like you’re isolated.<\/p>\n

“Edinburgh is quite international, there is people from all over, so I really appreciate how hard it can be to make new friends and meet new people.”<\/p>\n

You can get tickets for the event here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An English woman has opened up on her experience of organising a new event after moving to Edinburgh…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":39176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8816],"tags":[748,1102,6171,4884,712,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-39175","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-edinburgh","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-edinburgh","10":"tag-friends","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-scotland","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114377754396584631","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}