Join in at venues across East Lothian. Organised by Outside the Box.

For more information contact [email protected] or call 07936 330765.

Pledge NOW – only 3 days left

It is not too late to join in! Thank you to everyone that has pledged vouchers so far. However, we only have 3 days to go and we still need more households to pledge to reach the target. If you would like to receive around 10x current broadband speeds with fibre broadband visit the East Saltoun Community Project site on Openreach now. You might not know it, but everyone has a voucher!

For the full terms see the Openreach site (Openreach is what used to be the network part of BT) but in summary the commitment is only to accept one of the fibre packages offered by the providers on Openreach, i.e. Sky, BT, Vodafone, Talktalk and many more. Prices are often little more than existing packages.

Many thanks to Robin Grenfell for organising the the project for the village. Lets make this happen!

Local Election Hustings – Your chance to meet candidates and ask questions about their policies and plans.

Choosing the best councillors is vital for the local community – the aim of this event is to help you make decisions about how to cast your votes.  Full details in the poster attached.

All eight candidates will give a brief summary of what they would bring to the role of councillor and the audience will then be invited to ask questions about local council issues. The event will be chaired by Professor David Stevenson of Queen Margaret University.  Please reserve your place at Local Election Hustings Tickets, Wed 20 Apr 2022 at 19:15 | Eventbrite.

You can submit questions in advance to [email protected] though we will still ask you to read out your question in person. There may also be opportunities to raise questions on the night.

Please aim to be seated by 7.15pm so that we start on time and the candidates can make their presentations without disturbance.

Please park in the upper car park if possible. This will allow us to prioritise spaces in the lower car park for people who need to be closer to the church.

Brown bins are for garden waste only

East Lothian Councils’s brown bin collection is specifically for garden waste. No compostable food or drink containers should be put in the brown bin. 

The treatment solution is local to East Lothian and is not the mechanical or engineered solution that is required to treat other compostable materials. Treating locally allows the collection vehicles to tip at the point of treatment and vastly reduces the carbon footprint.  The system used in East Lothian is to shred and compost in open windrows utilising screening and this works extremely well.  Equally, by controlling the input we reduce contaminants/pollutants and produce a high standard of product suitable for direct application in gardens and horticulture/agriculture. 

The label ‘Fully compostable’ has many meanings in relation to required treatments to compost but the vast majority require in-vessel or automated/engineered treatments to compost down.  Such containers also contain residues of food waste which changes the required treatment type, increasing contamination and reducing the output (compost) specification.

At present there is no affordable way to separately collect and treat such packaging and this needs further action nationally. Not everything that is compostable, is compostable, it seems.