Updates and news

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 thrilled to announce our Green Futures Festival 2025, taking place on Saturday 22nd March at Queen Margaret University. This will be a day of learning, connecting and building work together across East Lothian. See here to find out more.

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!

Over the past months, the Climate Hub has been in deep consultation with ELCAN members to co-create a response to this draft strategy.

With the end of the year drawing to a close, we held an ELCAN Winter Gathering for an evening of music, food and celebrating local climate action.

Are you interested in contributing to the development of the the East Lothian Climate Action Network, which steers the activities of the Climate Hub?

The Climate Hub recently facilitated a discussion about farming practices and sustainability in Scotland.

The world moves so quickly these days, doesn’t it? Sometimes, it’s nice just to take a break.

Belhaven Community Garden is a beautiful, well-established, and much-loved space that has been built up from the grassroots on derelict land owned by the NHS.

The last week of September was Scotland’s Climate Week, part of the Let’s Do Net Zero campaign, which includes our Climate Action Programme.

The initiative, funded by Scottish Ministers in conjunction with the Tyne & Esk Local Action Group, enables community groups to use thermal imaging cameras and other tools to offer free Heat Surveys for local homes, helping households reduce heat loss and energy costs.

We have being working with communities across the region to create a vision of a thriving, sustainable East Lothian.

In order to prepare ourselves for climate change, we need to understand what changes are happening and how they are effecting people’s lives.

The Climate Hub is having a series of Pop-Ups across the region.

People and organisations, large and small, are doing their part across East Lothian to move towards our net zero, circular economy, plastic-free, and biodiversity targets and ambitions.