Welcome to our website

Meetings of the Community Council are usually held on the fourth Tuesday of every month (except July and December) at 7pm in the Town Hall. 

Dates for 2025 meetings are as follows:

• Tues 28th January

• Tues 25th February

• Tues 25th March

• Tues 22nd April

• Tues 27th May

• Tues 24th June

• Tues 26th August

• Tues 23rd September

• Tues 28th October

• Tues 25th November

Meetings are open to ALL to attend. 
 

On this website you will find a list of current members of the community council, a library of older minutes and other information relating to our community.

Should you wish to get in contact with the community council for any reason please email the secretary at prestonpanscommunitycouncil@gmail.com

PRIDE OF PANNERS AWARDS

In 2024, the Community Council launched a new awards scheme to celebrate the efforts of those folks who give above and beyond the call for our community. It has three categories - Young People (18 and under), Adults (19 and over) and Groups (all ages).

If you know a person or group who gives their all for people of Prestonpans, download a nomination paper (from the Library tab), fill it in and email it to our secretary at the above email address by the 31 August 2025.

SMALL GRANT REQUESTS

Prestonpans Community Council is now taking applications from local community groups, charities and societies for small grants to assist any existing fund-raising efforts for activities or iterms which benefit members of our community.

If you would like to be considered for such a small grant, please download the application form (titled "Small Grant Application Form") from our Library page (tab on left) and send a completed copy to our secretary at the above email address.

Completed applications will then be considered by the next quorate meeting of the Community Council.

WAR MEMORIAL RESTORATION PROJECT

In time for the centenary commemorations of World War One, Prestonpans Community Council, East Lothian Council and the War Memorials Trust worked together to repair the William Birnie Rhind sculpture and war memorial in the town's Civic Square. This beloved memorial, depicting a soldier of the the 8th Battalion Royal Scots, was erected in 1922 to commemorate those brave individuals that gave their lives in World War One and a tablet was added after World War Two at the foot of the statue. More details about the project and the men commemorated can be found at a dedicated website here.

Following this successful repair project East Lothian Council sought funding from the Scottish Government to revamp the entire Civic Square. Having been successful in their bid, the Community Council worked with the local authority and landscape architects Rankine Fraser on the design of the new Square, the historical interpretation panels and a new war memorial, carved by local stonemason Gardner Molloy, depicting almost a local hundred individuals who had been omitted from the earlier memorials.