Who benefits from our Common Good? 

Hopefully we all do!

If you live in Peebles or any former Royal Burgh across Scotland, you are more than likely to have benefitted in some way from Common Good or know someone who has.

Financial Benefits

Each year the Fund gives out grant awards to local causes that the Common Good Sub-Committee considers merit community support.  Here are some recent examples (in alphabetic order):

• Dance for Parkinsons – £5,000 programme costs (June 2024)
• Interest Link Peebles – £2,000 to develop an existing project to improve the quality of life of 30 members with learning difficulties aged 12-76, and 40 family carers (February 2021)
• Nomad Beat – £5,000 towards running costs
• Peebles Community Council – £2,000 towards setting up Parkrun in Peebles (May 2018)
• Peebles Community Council – £1,200 for upkeep of flower beds for the year (November 2019)
• Peebles Community Trust/Lord Lieutenancy – £1,672 for D-Day commemoration event (May 2024)
• Peebles Community Trust – £1,200 for this Peebles Common Good exhibition (May 2024)
• Peebles Ex-Servicemen’s Pipe Band – £6,500 towards new equipment and uniforms (May 2019)
• Peebles Highland Games – £5,000 towards a new marquee for community use (May 2023)
• Peeblesshire Archaeological Society – £1,500 towards production of a leaflet on the archaeology and history of Haylodge Park (May 2018)
• Peebles Stroke Club – £600 to help fund travel costs of outings (August 2022)
• Peebles Youth Voice – £3,000 to help fund a series of youth events at Eastgate Theatre (April 2023)
• Peebles Youth Trust – £300 towards the purchase of a projector (May 2018)
• Tweeddale Youth Action – £7,840 to fund refurbishment of their building (August 2021)
• Tweed Wheels – £5,000 to contribute to the cost of a new minibus (July 2020)

Social & Wellbeing Benefits

Across the town, Common Good preserves our public parks and open spaces for us to enjoy.  It protects them from any encroaching commercial development and, responding to our climate change emergency, enabling their greener management.

History & Heritage

The Common Good Act 1491 is still in force under Scots Law and, whether it is bits of our history preserved in Peebles Museum or properties in and around the town with long-lived heritage, they all have important stories to tell that will be lost unless we take active steps to pass them on in good order for the benefit of future generations.