Fa'side Area Partnership

26/05/2026

East Lothian Play Association - ELPA are running 3 Friday sessions at the Forest Garden 👇

🌿 Fridays just got a bit more magical... 🌿

For the next three weeks, our Play Rangers are setting up camp in the beautiful Forest Garden in Tranent. It is the perfect community space to play, relax and shake off the school week.

Drop by on Fridays (29th May, 5th June, 12th June) between 12pm and 2pm. We’ll have games, sketching supplies out, plenty of spaces to just sit and relax and—of course—free snacks!

It’s free, fun, friendly and everyone is welcome. See you in the garden! 🪵🐛

20/05/2026

East Lothian and Midlothian rural community projects can now apply for the latest round of grants from the Tyne & Esk Rural Communities Development Fund.

Two types of grant are available; capital grants of £5,000-£15,000 to support the purchase, improvement or maintenance of physical assets, and revenue grants of up to £15,000 to cover day-to-day running costs such as salaries and office expenses.

Applications must be in by midnight on Sunday 31 May.

https://orlo.uk/WKQ1j

18/05/2026

Carers Week sessions - book your spaces on these free events for carers.

Please see the image below for details of the sessions running. You can click the link below for more info on our website.

Contact us on [email protected] 01316650135 to book your spaces.

**** Please note that the wellbeing evening is now fully booked, with a waiting list! If you've already requested a space, we will be allocating spaces next week. ****

https://www.coel.org.uk/news-information/carers-week-2026-programme-of-events/

17/05/2026

17/05/2026

Learn new sewing skills as you fix items for the future. Get help on navigating a sewing machine to fix that hem, darn that hole in your warm sweater. Volunteers are on hand to help. Contact Tranent Library with your name, contact details, item your need to fix, or learn, please let team know if you can bring your own sewing machine.
[email protected]
Fa'side Area Partnership Tranent & Elphinstone Community Council Tranent folks Ormi folks East Lothian Library Services Fixing for a Future

14/05/2026

New walking rugby sessions! 🏉👇

I’m pleased to share that we are launching Walking Rugby in partnership with the SRU, East Lothian Rugby, and Ross High Rugby Club.

The first session will take place on Thursday 4th June, 7:00–7:45pm, at Ross High Rugby Club (Blawearie Rd, Tranent, EH33 2DB).

If you’re interested, please sign up and help us spread the word.

Ross High RFC Official

11/05/2026

📢 Community Engagement Summit – Tackling Litter & Fly Tipping

Residents, community groups, representative groups, residents associations, and local/national agencies are invited to attend a Community Engagement Summit on Tuesday 2nd June at Ross High Rugby Club.

The summit will focus on working together to prevent and address issues relating to litter and fly tipping across our communities.

Two identical sessions will be available to help as many people as possible attend:
🕑 Afternoon Session: 2pm – 4pm
🌙 Evening Session: 6pm – 8pm

There is no need to attend both sessions, as the same content will be covered in each.

If you are interested in attending, please confirm by emailing:
📧 [email protected]

Please share this information with anyone who may wish to get involved in helping keep our communities clean and welcoming. 🌍♻️

01/05/2026

Great partnership project between Natural Connections & East Lothian Council

A community-driven tree planting project in Tranent has received nearly £79,000 from the Urban Forestry Challenge Fund provided by Future Woodlands Scotland (FWS).
The Tranent Tree Town scheme is being led by the charity Natural Connections in partnership with us.
Tranent currently has one of the lowest levels of tree cover in East Lothian.
The Urban Forestry Programme run by FWS aims to enhance urban areas across the country by increasing tree cover and green spaces. The programme focuses on the 3-30-300 rule whereby everyone should be able to see three trees from their home while every neighbourhood has a 30 per cent tree canopy cover and quality green space within 300 metres.
Natural Connections, which has developed The Heugh Community Garden in Tranent over the past nine years, will now lead local community groups and volunteers in the bid to plant at least 3000 trees/shrubs annually over the next three years.
The charity has 1000 trees ready to go at the Heugh Garden and plans to source more from the Woodland Trust. For the project’s future sustainability, it intends to establish a tree nursery to grow their own trees.
It is hoped Tranent Tree Town will create a model which can be rolled out across other communities in the county in need of greater urban tree canopy cover.
More info: https://orlo.uk/gBx9v

01/05/2026

📢 First Aid Course (Sunday 10th May, Tranent)
We still have some spaces available on our Combined Emergency First Aid at Work & Emergency Paediatric First Aid Course (£60pp).

🗓 Sunday 10th May
⏰ 09:00–18:00

📍Tranent (venue provided on booking)
✅ Delivered by Victoria O’Neill – Safe Hands First Aid Training Ltd
✅ Regulated 3‑year dual qualification
✅ Full course details are available in the attached flyer.
Priority will be given to clubs and organisations involved in our local Community Sport Hubs, but others are welcome to enquire if interested.

If you’d like to book a space or want more information, please get in touch with Jade Hall at:
📞 07714481697
📧 [email protected]
Jade Hall, Club & Community Sports Development Officer

30/04/2026

Our drop-ins with Salvesen Mindroom are BACK! Tranent drop-ins are starting next week with drop-ins in Dunbar and Musselburgh to follow shortly - stay tuned for dates and times.