Category: News & Updates

  • Community benefits from net zero energy developments – Scottish Government consultation 2025

    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…

  • Energy Developers – leave our place better than you found it!

    Energy Developers – leave our place better than you found it!

    19:00, Monday 19th May, Innerwick Village Hall East Lammermuir Community Council invite you to meet with the 13 Energy Developers involved in generating, storing and transporting electricity within the area, to ask them how they intend to leave our place better than they found it. East Lammermuir Community Council and East Lothian Council hold regular…

  • GET SUPPORT WITH HEARING LOSS

    GET SUPPORT WITH HEARING LOSS

    RNID’s friendly volunteers are here to support you with:• NHS hearing aid maintenance (recommended every 4-6 months).• Information on hearing loss and tinnitus• How to access support and services in your area• How to do a hearing check – screening tool suitable for people who think they may have hearing loss. We now have free…

  • community benefits

    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…

  • Energy Projects Partnership Manager

    Energy Projects Partnership Manager

    Energy Projects Partnership Manager for East Lammermuir Salary: £42,787 pro rataLocation: Home-based & with regular time in and around East LammermuirWork pattern: 28 hours per weekContract: PermanentLine managed by: Head of Communities & Impact https://www.foundationscotland.org.uk/about-us/work-with-us  The timetable we are working to is as follows: Could you help us to break new ground and genuinely usher in a just transition for…

  • Storm Éowyn Update 27/01/2025

    Storm Éowyn Update 27/01/2025

    A further update to our Communities and ELC colleagues in relation to the ongoing response to Storm Eowyn and the implications for East Lothian.  Please feel free to share the content beyond the addressee list of this email. The ELC Incident Response Group (IRG) met at 16:00 today, SPEN give an update on Power outages…