Category: Events

MONDAY 31st OCTOBER 2016, 6pm-7.30pm

Meet at the hall – go guising in groups – back to the hall for games and divvying up the loot.
Please don’t abandon your children! All primary school children must be accompanied by an adult.

Please let us know via the contact form or make it obvious on the night if you do not wish to be disturbed!

 

A message from the Haddington and Lammermuir Area Partnership to local residents representing local village halls, community groups and community facilities:

This local consultation exercise is being target at local groups in the Haddington and Lammermuir Area and we would greatly appreciate if you could respond to the consultations below and even attend the workshop or annual public meeting if you are a representative of a local village hall or community facility. It would be great to hear back from as many of you as possible as we want to make sure that the Area Plan is truly reflective of everyone’s needs. If you have any questions then please don’t hesitate to ask.

Thank you,
The Haddington and Lammermuir Local Area Partnership

Haddington and Lammermuir Area Partnership are continuing to develop an Area Plan and want to hear from the people who live and work in the area to help shape this plan. The area plan will detail all of the actions that the community agree will make a difference to their lives. See here for a copy of the current plan. To find out what YOU want in the local area the Area Partnership are carrying out a range of consultation activities over the coming weeks. You can get involved in all of the consultations or just the ones that are most relevant to you.

The consultations are:

A “4 wishes” exercise where you (and any groups you may represent) are being asked to identify the 4 things that would make a difference to your own and the wider communities’ lives. The aim of this exercise is draw out the actions that can be implemented over the longer term of the Area Plan such as how we can make the best use of public facilities and social spaces, and supporting groups and organisations to provide local services. The “wishes” you are being asked for are:

If you had 4 wishes which would improve the Haddington and Lammermuir Area, what would they be?

• 1 wish for yourself
• 1 wish for the community
• 1 wish for your group or organisation
• 1 wish for our community facilities

COMPLETE THE EXERCISE
This consultation will run until the 30th October 2016.

A “Mapping workshop” at this event there will be big maps of Haddington town and the outlying villages (Gifford, Humbie, East and West Saltoun and Bolton, Garvald and Morham) so that you can physically identify the areas you would like to improve and chat with others about your ideas. The aim of this workshop is to identify actions that can be carried out in the shorter term – i.e. things that can be changed fairly quickly in your community like installing road safety measures, street lighting, and improving green spaces.

This event is taking place on Tuesday 25th October between 7pm and 9pm in Haddington Town House.

Haddington and Lammermuir Area Community Transport Survey. Haddington and Lammermuir Area Partnership would like to try and find out what the needs and demands are for a public transport service and would like you to complete a short survey to give them your views.

COMPLETE THE SURVEY. This consultation will run until the 30^th October 2016.

The Haddington and Lammermuir Area Partnership Annual Public Meeting

At this event all of the information, ideas and suggestions gathered from the 4 wishes exercise, the mapping workshop and the rural transport survey will be presented and you will be asked to start prioritising them in to the actions that you think are the most important to be delivered over the short, medium and longer term.

This event is taking place on Tuesday 22nd November between 7.15pm and 9pm in Haddington Town House.

Of course, for any of this to be truly reflective of the community’s desires, we need you (and any groups you represent) to take part. Your support with this is greatly appreciated by the Haddington and Lammermuir Area Partnership. Thanks in advance and if you have any questions or queries in relation to this email you can get in touch using any of the below.

Email: areapartnership@eastlothian.gov.uk
Phone: 01620 827871
Tweet: @EastLothianAP

The Lyceum is holding a fun-filled family day on 19th October, inspired by their Christmas show Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. Some activities are drop-in, some bookable but all are FREE! For more info see their What’s On page.

 

The main road into Garvald has been closed by Scottish Water. It looks like this closure will last until Friday. This is emergency work as opposed to planned work which is why we weren’t notified. They are replacing part of the lead pipe with plastic.

Remember to come along to the village hall this Wednesday for the AGM including wine, nibbles and a slideshow of Garvald images – past and present.

Come along to the village hall AGM for a fun and interesting evening with wine, nibbles and a slide show. The slideshow will contain some fantastic pictures of Garvald throughout the ages as well as some of the more recent events the hall has hosted.

Just a reminder that the closing date for nomination papers for this year’s community council elections is coming up (it’s on Thursday the 15th!). So if you fancy being on the CC pick up a form from the Council. Rufus at Bridgend Cottage also has some to give out.

Hi all

You may remember we emailed you a couple of months ago about the launch of a new national phone number “105”, which will be launched by all electricity network operators for customers to call should they need to report or get information about a power cut in their area. Instead of dialling 0800 numbers, customers will be able to call the new “105” number.

Key points to note about this service are:
· Dialling 105 will put customers through to their local electricity network operator – the company that manages the cables, power lines and substations that deliver electricity into homes and businesses in their area.
· 105 is just one of the ways that customers can contact their electricity network operator. They can also contact them by phone or via their website, and most network operators are on social media too.
· 105 is a free service for people in England, Scotland and Wales.
· Customers can call 105 no matter who they choose to buy electricity from.
· Customers can also call 105 if they spot damage to electricity power lines and substations that could put anyone in danger. If there’s a serious immediate risk, they should call the emergency services too.

One simple, but effective way you support the launch is through joining our social media Thunderclap. This allows causes, such as the launch of 105, to gain support from huge groups of people through using their social media following.

Through Thunderclap people can show their support by agreeing to share a single message about the launch of 105. Our Thunderclap will complete at 10am on 6th September, at which point this single message will be sent from the Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr account of everyone who signed up. This will give the launch of 105 a huge amount of reach in a very short space of time.

How do you use Thunderclap?

· Go to the ‘Power cut? Call 105’ Thunderclap page: https://www.thunderclap.it/projects/46062-power-cut-call-105
· Click on the large red buttons to show support through using either Facebook, Twitter or Tumblr.
· The next dialogue will confirm the message that will be sent on your behalf when the campaign completes. Give it a read and check you’re happy. The default message is “There’s a new number to call in the event of a power cut. Don’t get left in the dark – call 105. http://thndr.me/deu51r “
· Click ‘Add my support’
· You’re all done!

A national consumer awareness campaign will run from this month through to next spring and will include PR, media advertising, social media and coordinated messaging through partner channels.

Hopefully you can help us to raise awareness of this important new national 105 service through your channels, once the service is launched. We can provide you with materials to use, including:
· Copy for newsletters, websites and magazines
· 105 imagery
· Tips on what to do in a power cut
· Comment from our spokespeople
· Social media assets
· An animated film explaining 105
· We can also work with you to co-create bespoke content specifically for your channels.

We will also want to continue to work with partners to raise awareness of 105 in the longer-term.

A Stakeholder Toolkit, which includes creative collateral you might wish to use (in English and Welsh), along with the brand guidelines, has been produced. It can be downloaded from here.

If you have any questions or would like any further information, do let me know. Also, if you are able to support awareness raising of 105, please can you let us know when, where and how you can help by contacting/emailing encommunications@spenergynetworks.co.uk.

Kind regards

Tracy Joyce
Head of Stakeholder Engagement and Communications
SP Energy Networks

Fab fundraising efforts from Alasdair Easton, age 9. He’s doing the ‘Pedal for Scotland’ 46 mile cycle from Glasgow to Edinburgh in aid of Arthritis Research UK on Sunday 11th September. Please donate if you can! The donation page on the justgiving.com website will be available for the next couple of weeks.