Category: Community benefits & funding
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response to UK Government consultation
ELCC has submitted a response to the UK Government consultation on Community Benefits and Shared Ownership of Low Carbon Energy Infrastructure (external link — opens in a new tab) After the open meeting held in Innerwick on 14 July, we felt that emphasising the importance of building community should underpin all of the decision making…
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Community Benefits Event
Monday 14 July in the Old School, Innerwick, 7 – 8:30pm On 10 March this year the community council hosted a first community conversation about the use of community benefits we are likely to see from the electricity infrastructure that gets built in our patch. About twenty people joined in. That discussion helped us to…
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Community benefits from net zero energy developments – Scottish Government consultation 2025
East Lammermuir Community Council held a community conversation in Innerwick on 10 March – attended by 20 local people – and added those views to those we have developed over our last 20 years of administering a community benefits fund. You can read the Community Council’s response to this consultation here. Chris Chris Bruce Chair East Lammermuir Community Council…
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community benefits
For almost 20 years the East Lammermuir Community Council / Benefit Fund has been making grants to local groups and projects for the benefit of local people. The available funding will be increasing and we need to think BIGGER and BOLDER …. For example, SPEN have announced a pot of £4M for this end of…