Get ready for a day filled with inspiration, education, and action at the East Lothian Green Futures Festival, organised by the new East Lothian Climate Hub!  Free to attend🌟

ℹ️ What to Expect:

·       Engaging lecture series on critical climate topics

·       Interactive workshops to empower and educate

·       Showcase of local projects making a difference

·       Drop-in advice clinics for sustainable living tips

·       Live music, delicious food, and fun for the whole family!

🌱 Let's come together to share the amazing projects taking place across the county, get involved in fun activities for kids & adults, raise awareness, explore solutions, while having a whole lot of fun! 🌱

🎉 Mark your calendars and spread the word. This is an event you won't want to miss! 🎉

For more information and updates, stay tuned to our page or visit www.sccan.scot/elcan

If you are interested in exhibiting, running a workshop or delivering a talk please complete this form https://forms.gle/CTn782WzgwRKmhv87

See you there! 🌎💚 #GreenFutures #ClimateAction #Sustainability #EastLothian #climate hub #familyfun #event #ELGreenFuturesFest24

Beat the winter blues with a restyle of your wardrobe with the most sustainable fashion available.

Grab your friends, declutter your closet and join is at the Seabird Centre in North Berwick for a glass of fizz and fashion swish. Find the perfect outfit or fab shoes for the price of your ticket. We cannot think of a better way to brighten up the long winter months!

We each spend on average around £640 on clothes per year and collectively throw out almost 1 million tonnes of textiles. One third of this has barely been worn! So bring those items along for someone else to love.

So many wins!

• Beat the winter blues

• Beat the cost of living crisis,

• Have fun, LOTS of fun!

• Do your Lil thing for the planet,

• Clear your wardrobe clutter,

• Get that new-to-you clothes fix without feeding the fast fashion monster

• Support both the Seabird Centre & Lil’s work for our communities and nature.

  Need a little more motivation or support sorting your wardrobe? Read our fashion articles over on the Lil Blog

Tickets: £15 per person. Visit the Seabird Centre website here to book your tickets

Details of drop off points will be listed closer to the event.

Save the date

Join Lil’s Haddington Growing Together Project and Amisfield Walled Garden for an informal workshop helping beginner gardeners get into food growing. We’ll show you haw to create the right environment for your pants to grow and sow seeds, provide tips and growers guides for your plants and you’ll go home with your own cut-and-come-again salad pot to grow on, harvest and eat.

Take a guided tour of the garden and grab a cuppa & a slice. All materials and instruction are included. Thanks to Caledonian Horticulture we have compost and thanks to Merryhatton Garden Centre for for donating the seeds.

Book a place here :Amisfield Beginners Grow Your Own Workshop Lower Impact Living (dolilthings.org) Booking a place is free. There will be an opportunity to make a pay-what-you-think-its-worth donation (split 50/50 between the two non-profit organisations hosting) if you wish to do so.

Suitable for beginners of all ages 10+ (we hope to run other events for young growers outside school times).

We look forward to wlelcoming you to the garden.

A free, fun event for all ages exploring the greenspace around the Community Hospital. Try a Brompton bike and quiz Love To Ride about cycling opportunities - the hospital is next to Sustrans Route 76, the Railway walk. Dig in to our mini beach clean and hunt Minibeasts with the kids, find & share plants at the plant swap stall, make your own smoothie with pedal power, enjoy a picnic with some live music and meet lots of local organisations. It is also a chance to input to the designs for the landscape - what would you like to be able to use the space for?

Come anytime, bring a picnic and stay a while, activities for all ages.

Come and see:

Live music from the Goats Toes and other Haddstock buskers (various times through the day)

Haddington Growing Community - swap and share plants & seeds

Clean all the plastic from the Lil mini beach

Try a Brompton Bike

Beyond Boundaries East Lothian - -providing adventure sports and outdoor activities for people aged 16+ with disabilities and mental health issues living in East Lothian

Our Community Garden

Love to Ride - be inspired to leave the car and home and ride your bike in East Lothian

Home Energy Scotland - try and ebike or find out about grants for home energy improvments

Sustrans Smoothie Bike - concoct and power the liquidiser for your own smoothie. Fruit kindly donated by the Co-op

Join Gifford Community Woodland Forest Schools Teacher from craft or den building

Discover the minibeast trail - can you tick them all off your list

Tell us what you’d like to see the greenspace around the community hospital used for…wildflower meadows, seating areas, bigger carpark, Christmas market? This is a chance to have your say.

Grab a blanket and chill out and enjoy a picnic (byo) for a while.

See you there x

Join Lil on a walking litter pick around the hospital grounds and down Hospital Road to Station Yard. Litter you collect will then be creatively transformed into a central, interactive artwork for the Haddstock Festival by MADE.

Meet at 10am at the Lil Gazebo at the front of the hospital

Equipment can be provided but if you have gloves or litter pickers do bring them along. More the merrier! 

There will also be a BioBlitz (running 10 til 3pm, drop in) to record nature around the hospital grounds) and a chance to explore the site through Art with Fantoosh Sketching (requires separate booking here).

BIOBLITZ
Drop in for this free event and explore the grounds of the Community Hospital, survey the nature that's there with the East Lothian Countryside Rangers and volunteer specialists.

This is a drop in event, please arrive on the hour to join in (i.e. 10am 11am, 1pm or 2pm) - you can stay longer Please click going if you plan to come along so I can bake enough cake! We need lots of folk so we have a thorough survey of the site before new

A BioBlitz is a race against time to create a snapshot of the variety of life found in a specific location. Wildlife experts and the wider public (that's you!) work together, within a set amount of time, to find and identify as many species of plants, animals and fungi as possible.

SKETCH & WANDER
You can also book on to a Sketch and Wander Workshop with the amazing Lynn from Fantoosh - book here. Join Lynn in a mindful session to explore the grounds and the nature they hold then use creative ways to express what you discover and what you can imagine. 10.30am - 12.30pm

A LIL CONSULTATION
Lil is collecting community views on how the landscape around the hospital might be used - it is a community hospital after all. Pop into the gazebo at any time during the day for a chat, a cuppa and to imagine what you'd like to see, do & feel there.

LIL RUBBISH COLLECTIVE
Join Lil on a litter pick around the hospital grounds, down hospital road and to Station Yard - follow this link for more details: https://fb.me/e/3kFg7nLrt 10am - 12pm (or after if you’re happy picking alone.

IMPORTANT DETAILS
No previous experience required. All ages welcome.
Meet at the Lil Gazebo located in the woodland walk next to the car park.
Please check the weather forecast and wear suitable clothing and footwear
Parking available on site.
Use of toilets is limited to emergencies, so please go before you leave home
There'll be tea & cake available to buy but if you're staying longer over lunch we recommend a packed lunch.

Join Lil at the Scottish Seabird Centre as we take on the challenge to “Buy Nothing New since ‘22”.

Nothing new is up to you - maybe it’s clothes for you, or everything you’d normally buy, including gifts. However you’d like to do it, or even if it’s just doing a Lil more than last year, we’ll be celebrating all our efforts with a Swish at the Seabird Centre on Thursday January 19th from 7.30pm.

Tickets are £15, including a fizz or non-alcoholic drink on entry.

Get top quality gifts, clothes, homewares, toys, books and more. 

We love secondhand, it’s better for our pockets and the planet too.

Help us make secondhand everyone’s first choice by donating, attending and spreading the word.

Last year’s attendees said

“Please do another one. Soon!”       “We’ve got all our Christmas presents sorted.”  

Donations will be accepted from November 5 at Lil (10 High St) and other locations.

We can accept bikes on November 4&5; we can accept small, great condition and working electrical items. Toys must have CE marks. For more info, see here

Come and join us for our Autumn Swish! Delighted to be part of the Climate Fringe Festival and perfectly timed for Second-hand September, it’s time to refresh the wardrobe for the winter months and clear out the items that still haven’t seen the summer light.

Excited to also share this event with a Sashiko beautiful repair workshop from the wonderful Millie Scott Studios. Sashiko repairs start at 6pm; doors open for swish at 7.30pm with the “bell” for first selections at 8pm.

Tickets essential. Some tickets are available via referral partners, so get in touch if the admission prices are putting you off.

Join us and we will help you understand the impact of your domestic waste, cut unnecessary consumption and reduce how often you have to empty those bins!.

This is an opportunity to examine the everyday choices we make and how they impact upon our local environment. This on-line session will involve some pre-work to audit your waste, as well as follow-up to share your progress after the event.

This event is run in association with the Scottish Seabird Centre’s Marine Fest recommended for ages 16+ and costs £10. Book tickets via Eventbrite at

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/waste-workshop-with-lil-online-event-tickets-151990671189

Location

Online. Full meeting details and instructions will be emailed to participants prior to the event. This will include a bit of suggested pre-work to help you to get the most out of the workshop.

We are very happy to bring you Susan from Fresh Green Clean to present this bespoke workshop! This exciting workshop is two hours long and is a mixture of learning about the benefits of Green Cleaning, on the environment and your body. Interactive demos in essential oils and their uses in cleaning, with lots of tips and hacks thrown in. 😃 Also you have the fun hands-on experience of making TWO natural products (stored in glass) for use in your own home! The workshop will be split into two sections with a comfort break for refreshments in the middle. It is a great way to learn more about the benefits of green cleaning and to meet new, likeminded, local people! Lil will be there with our amazing range of eco friendly products and ingredients for your cleaning recipes plus other household cleaning products to kick start your green cleans.

*The workshop cost is £22* please message @FreshGreenClean via Facebook Messenger or email @mail.freshgreenclean@gmail.com to book your space.