Celebrating our 2nd Green Futures Festival!

May 5, 2025

We held our Green Futures Festival at the end of March 2025!

This was our second GFF and a wonderful round up to year one of the Climate Hub and the brilliant ELCAN network. The festival looked to build on a year of upscaling action across East Lothian and to be a place of connection, practical learning, celebration, and rooting hope in our community and what we’re building. It was a buzzing family-friendly day of learning, connecting and good music.

Please see a gallery of festival pictures below.

350 people walked through the door and the festival was non-stop buzzing all day. The festival was made up of workshops and a lively stall area. Throughout the day, a total of 11 talks were held. These informed and inspired the public around the Climate Hub’s thematic areas of work: food, energy, biodiversity, and circular economy, and inspired and supported learning around other key areas of action, such as adaptation, campaigns, and collective wellbeing.

We also had over 45 stalls and lively project activities, which were organised into thematic areas, including food, biodiversity, circular economy, energy and business, youth and campaigns. The stall area was alive with activities, conversations and exchanges.

There was also a Climate Hub corner, a Climate Creativity Collaborations corner (for action visioning for youth), and a Collective Wellbeing Corner, for grounding and reflecting. We had plenty kids activities throughout the day (the circular economy area was also a great hit with families!) and brilliant local youth musicians throughout.

This festival was a huge success; accomplishing our aim to support practical learning and deepening of our climate and nature action, to help us connect with brilliant people and groups doing brilliant work, and to ground us in the sense of the collective: we can’t do this work alone. It represented the spirit and intentions of the Climate Hub and ELCAN and the perfect way to round off the year.

We would like to give a huge thank you to all the 40+ stall holders, to our brilliant speakers and session and activity holders, to the volunteers who helped with the smooth running of the day, and to the musicians who kept the place filled with great music. And a sincere thank you to all our ELCAN members and the public who engaged and are part of this journey to make East Lothian, and the world, a safer place for all.

Thank you all for coming and for all the work you do. We look forward to carrying on building work with you