Seven local charities and community groups from Cockenzie & Port Seton and Prestonpans have been awarded funds from the latest tranche of Inch Cape Construction Fund grants.

The latest grants, totalling more than £10,000, went to a range of organisations with varied areas of focus from the re-launch of the 3 Harbours Art Festival and free art workshops via Shorelark Arts CIC, to first-aid courses provided by Dads Work for fathers and male caregivers, and the Grow your Own Routes programme supporting young people impacted by a loved one’s substance abuse.

Funds were also provided to the Cockenzie Star Girls Football Club for new equipment and kit to enable the young players to continue to enjoy the benefits of being in a sports team and to the Dalkeith and Monktonhall Brass Band for an upgraded rehearsal space.

A total of more than £40,000 has now been distributed by the fund to 26 separate community groups, organisations and charities, supporting people and enabling activities throughout the area surrounding the Inch Cape onshore substation construction site at Cockenzie.

The Inch Cape Construction Fund is managed by Foundation Scotland. It was established to support projects that have the specific objectives to either tackle the effects of poverty and inequality, improve the environment or to encourage sustainability within the community council areas of both Prestonpans and Cockenzie & Port Seton.

Applications for grants of up to £2000 will be considered on a rolling basis, so eligible groups can apply at any time.

Those groups awarded grants in this latest tranche are listed below, along with the amount provided and what it has contributed towards. The full list of groups which have received grants from the Inch Cape Construction Fund to date can be found on the Inch Cape website construction fund page.

Once constructed, Inch Cape will be one of the largest offshore wind farms in Scotland. Its offshore site is in the North Sea, 15 kilometres from the Angus coastline, and the green electricity generated by the wind farm’s 72 turbines will be transmitted 85 kilometres to a new substation now under construction on the site of the former coal-fired Cockenzie Power Station in East Lothian.

ICOL, owner of Inch Cape Offshore Wind Farm, is an equal joint venture between Edinburgh-based renewable and sustainable energy company, Red Rock Renewables Limited and Ireland’s leading energy company, ESB.

Organisations awarded funds in the latest grants round: