The purpose of the EACC is that it is an advisory body that is there to help Community Councils with issues that they may be experiencing.
It also acts as a vehicle that brings Community Councils together to discuss common issues and ways of solving them.
Finally and most importantly it allows the City of Edinburgh Council to communicate with one body rather than 45 separate entities.
The EACC is a liaison body that supports the 45 community councils currently active in Edinburgh.
The association holds four Executive meetings a year, an annual general meeting and a series of question and answer sessions throughout the year.
These various meetings allow community councillors to network with each other, council officials and other groups outwith their area.
Below you'll find news, events, and links to infomation and minutes about our meetings and annual general meetings.
To get in touch with us, please go to the Contact EACC page.
We look forward to an interesting meeting Annual General Meeting on Thursday 21st November 2019.We will hear about the Poverty Commission followed by the election of Office Bearers. Nominations are now open to those wishing to stand. See the EACC Documents section
Minutes and meeting papers can be found under EACC Documents
If your Community Council has a resource that could be useful to other CCs, please let us know.
This site is a resource for Edinburgh Community Councils. More information is needed from Edinburgh CCs to populate it. Please forward any useful content ideas to comms@edinburghcommunitycouncils.org.uk Thank You.
The 2019 Annual General Meeting, was held in the European Room at the City Chambers on Thursday 21st November 2019.
Papers for the meeting are still available on the website in EACC Documents.
There was a presentation on the work of the Poverty Commission.
Along with Community Councillors from other parts of Scotland several representatives from Edinburgh Community Councils attended the event in the Centre for Carbon Innovation on 23rd April 2019.
On relecting the Strengthening Community Councils event, Andrew Paterson of Scottish Community Development Centre (SCDC) wonders if it’s time to rebalance how we think of, and support, community councils. He suggested:
But he thinks there was a clear message from more than one person attending the event The report , presentation slides and notes from the meeting are linked below
The website link is https://www.scdc.org.uk/news/article/2019/4/26/getting-the-balance-right-strengthening-community-councils
Its aim is to provide support, advise and give a collective voice for community councils when facing the challenges community councillors encounter on an almost daily basis. No one person is more important than any other. All community councils have a voice on the EACC!!
