Sustaining Dunbar’s aim is to bring people together to build a future for our locality which is not reliant on fossil fuels. Our work is focussed on local projects which further this aim, from helping people to save money on their fuel bills, to creating opportunities for local employment and leisure activities which reduce the need to travel further afield.
Sustaining Dunbar is a Development Trust and a Charity:
- As a Development Trust Sustaining Dunbar works to support local projects to help them get up and running.
- As a charity, Sustaining Dunbar is regulated by Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR).
Sustaining Dunbar has a membership open to anyone living in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward and it is free. However, households and local groups do not need to be members in order to get our practical support.
Sustaining Dunbar has various active projects on the go locally some of which have funding from the Scottish Government and some of which are not funded e.g. our trading subsidiaries.
Funded Projects: Based upon our previous work we have recently been awarded three years funding from the Scottish Government to pay for part-time members of staff to deliver one main project called - The Household Canny Challenge which gives practical support to households and schools throughout the Dunbar and East Linton Ward to reduce their use of fossil fuels. We have 4 practical support teams: Energy Advice Team, Connecting Dunbar Team (local sustainable transport), Incredibly Edible Dunbar and District Team (local food growing) and Worms Work (food waste composting) all working with households and schools to reduce carbon emissions, and to measure and record how we have done this, so that what we learn can be shared around the country.
We are grateful to the large number of volunteers (not least our hard-working board members) who help us keep the show on the road.
