We can help you develop ideas, connect it with others and work out the best way to take it forward, linking to community benefits funding as a new fund stream opens this week.

“Eastern Green Link 1 (EGL1) is a two-gigawatt high voltage direct current (HVDC) link that will run from the Torness area in East Lothian, to Hawthorn Pit in County Durham, via the North Sea.”

A new round of the EGL1 Community Benefit Fund opens on Monday 28 September 2026, with £400,000 available in this round.

Grants are available from £1,000 upwards, and applications close at midnight on Friday 6 November.

If you have an idea, especially one that could help deliver the East Lammermuir Local Place Plan (LPP), we can help you think it through.

You don’t need to have everything worked out. We can help you:

• develop your idea
• see how it fits with the Local Place Plan
• connect with other people or groups already doing similar work
• work out the best funding route

Got an idea? Email LPP@elcc.scot and we can also share information about an online information session for the EGL1 fund on 7 October at 12.30pm facilitated by Foundation Scotland.

Full fund information and application details: See EGL1 and chose Scotland, then the appropriate Fund Administrators website.

Foundation Scotland for grants between £20,001 and £500,000

Local Giving (link update coming soon) for grants of £1,000 to £20,000

Other East Lammermuir Community Benefit funds