Tuesday January 27th 2026
Musselburgh's Common Good Fund has around £9million in it.
Written by Local Democracy Reporter, Marie Sharp
Community groups across East Lothian towns were given nearly £75,000 from public funds last year with thousands more waiting to be spent.
The latest report on the county’s four Common Good Funds has revealed by the end of December there was still £61,000 remaining in their annual grant budgets to spend.
The report was presented to East Lothian Council’s Common Good Committee for noting at a meeting this week.
The biggest grants handed out were from the Musselburgh fund which saw Musselburgh Congregational Church given £20,000 and the Honest Toun Association receive £15,000,
Musselburgh’s Common Good Fund is by far the biggest in East Lothian making up an estimated £9million of the £13million held across four towns. It also gave a grant of just under £6,000 to the Community Pantry.
North Berwick’s Common Good Fund has handed out two grants so far this year – £4,000 to Fringe By The Sea and just over £2,000 to its community council.
Dunbar gave one grant of £3,250 to The Ridge and Haddington awarded grants pf £4,000 to Nungate Gala , £675 to Lower Impact Living, £4.445 to Haddington CIC (boxing club and £880 to Haddstock.
Across the funds they have also spent around £75,000 on repairs of common good assets over the year. Dunbar invested over ££40,000 to bring Winterfield Golf Club house up to standard so it could be handed over the club which has now taken on a lease.
Applications to the funds are welcomed from individuals, groups or clubs who can demonstrate a benefit to the people of the area through their activity or positive promotion of the town.
Individual applications presented to the committee were heard in private with the public excluded from the meeting.
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