Category Archives: Community

Reverse Rett Fundraising Event

5k and 10k options (walk or run) – plus a kids 1k and stalls, tombola, face painter and bouncy castle. Or just come along and spectate! Hope to see you there.

All proceeds to Reverse Rett, a small charity funding research into treatments and a cure for Rett Syndrome, which affects mainly girls and leads to lifelong disability.

For further information and to enter the race, please follow the links below.

https://www.webscorer.com/register?raceid=265329

Living Better – Sustaining North Berwick Free Event

FREE event OPEN to ALL on Saturday 26th March at St Andrew Blackadder Church Hall 2pm to 4.30pm

COME ALONG AND FIND OUT HOW TO LIVE MORE SUSTAINABLY.

HOW TO SAVE ENERGY IN YOUR HOME, EAT BETTER, TRAVEL SMARTER, WASTE LESS, RECYCLE MORE, BUY GREENER PRODUCTS, UNDERSTAND SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS, REWILD YOUR GARDEN AND SUPPORT ENVIRONMENTAL CAMPAIGNS AND ORGANISATIONS.

Sustaining North Berwick has lined up experts from:

Home Energy Scotland

Scottish Renewables

East Lothian Waste Services

Transform

Bikeability

On The Move

Also

The Seabird Centre

Peppermint Beach

NB High School Eco Committee

Wild Gardening Club

And more!

Come along, have a cuppa and chat with our experts in the areas that interest you.

Sustaining NB – thinking globally, acting locally.

FUNDING AWARDS AVAILABLE FOR VISUAL ARTISTS AND CRAFT MAKERS

The Visual Artists and Craft Makers Awards scheme (VACMA) is managed by East Lothian Council Arts Service in partnership with Creative Scotland, providing funding for artists and craft makers living or working in East Lothian. The next deadline for applications is Tuesday 1 March 2022, 5pm.

Emerging artists and new graduates can apply for £500, with £750 bursaries available for more established practitioners.

Applicants are asked to detail their creative practice, what the bursary will enable them to do and how this will help support their skills and development.

The application form and guidelines can be found on the Arts Service pages of East Lothian Council’s website, here https://bit.ly/2K51olF

The VACMA funding is available to artists and makers to support their practice.  For further information about the application process, please email artsservice@eastlothian.gov.uk .

Autistic Missing Person Protocol

Officers from Lothians and Scottish Borders division have launched a new pilot safeguarding scheme, designed to locate autistic adults and children when they are reported as missing.

The Autistic Missing Person Protocol is an information gathering tool, developed in partnership with education, health and social care partners, which will help police officers to find an autistic person who is missing, as quickly as possible.

The Autistic Missing Person Protocol encourages carers and families to record vital information on a form that can be handed over to the police in the event of someone going missing. Download the form to find out more.