Bobby Pembleton

We are very pleased to announce the next round of our Climate and Nature Action Grants! Find out more…

The Scottish Government is currently facilitating a consultation on Community Benefits for Renewable Energy Developments.  Anyone can respond by 11th April 2025. Read our response, which may be helpful to frame and consider your own response.

As part of the beginning of a pilot for Healthy Hedgerow restoration, collective knowledge and skills on hedgerows are being built for interested parties across East Lothian. 

Read more about Bobby’s conversation with the First Minister, and our shared goal of ensuring that no community is abandoned in a just transition to an ecologically positive future on a more wellbeing-focused, liveable planet.

As part of the beginning of a pilot for Healthy Hedgerow restoration, collective knowledge and skills on hedgerows are being built for interested parties across East Lothian. 

If you are an ELCAN member it would be wonderful if you or someone else from your group could attend the upcoming ELCAN AGM. Have a look in this update for more info.

The Climate Creativity Collaboration with secondary school students has been successfully launched with three workshops to date with North Berwick High and Knox Academy, co-facilitated between the Climate Hub and Tim Porteus. 

Have you ever considered what the money in your pension is doing, and what effect it is having on the world? Consider divesting from fossil fuel companies. Find out more here.

We have launched the East Lothian Biodiversity Collective! Check out this post to hear about the launch event, and for an opportunity to join.

We are happy to announce that nearly £10,000 of funding has been distributed to projects as part the East Lothian Climate Hub’s Community Climate and Nature Action Grant funding programme!