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Call to Action! NHS Lothian have now received and officially acknowledged our application to take Belhaven Community Garden into community ownership so as to protect this asset for the benefit of everyone living in the Dunbar and East Linton ward in the long term. As part of the process, “anyone may make representations about this…
Spott Burn Upper Reaches Sunday 22nd February 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus Derbridge The second of three ‘Wild River Walks’ (every last Sunday of Jan, Feb and Mar) exploring the Spott Burn from the river’s point of view. This month we will explore some of the upper reaches, starting up the Brock Burn and…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next café, Wednesday 11th February, 2026 An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and ideas and plan Community Action in the context of the climate and nature emergencies. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation…
Wild River Walk One -Brox Burn Lower Reaches Sunday 25th January 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus Derbridge NOTE: Because of the recent wet weather and flooding in the lower reaches, this Sunday’s walk will now explore the middle reaches near Spott village. Meet at Spott Village Hall at 10am The first of three ‘Wild…
Saturday 10th January 2026, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Wassailing is an ancient winter tradition originating from the Anglo-Saxon toast “Waes Hael” (be well), involving singing, drinking spiced ale or cider, and making a noise in orchards on or around Twelfth Night to bless the apple trees for a good harvest in the coming year, to…
Riverfly monitoring is a UK wide citizen science project which, in Scotland, is coordinated and supported by Buglife. Riverflies are invertebrates that spend most of their life cycle in a river, stream, pond or lake. The three key groups are stoneflies, caddisflies and mayflies. Along with other freshwater invertebrates, they are at the heart of…
Background This project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust and is being funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Restoration fund which we are pleased to have been able to match with funding from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit Fund. It is a small project but with the ambitious aim…
Tree Planting in West Barns (16th November 2025) Wild about West Barns joined the East Lothian Countryside Rangers on Sunday 16th November to help plant a whopping 524 young trees in a new community woodland behind West Barns Bowling Club! The woodland planting started in Spring 2025 and has been extended this Autumn with the…
Community arts workshops mapping our local burns Saturday 8th November, 10am-1pm, Stenton Village Hall –book Over the coming months we are planning a series of community arts and other workshops in connection with the Rivers Project, an initiative seeking to kick-start landscape scale action across all five of the short river catchments in East Lammermuir. We…
A networking drop-in for Sustaining Dunbar members, old and new. Saturday 15th November, 10am-midday, Ramshackle Café, Bleachingfield Centre, Dunbar Meet other members, find out what Sustaining Dunbar is doing just now and share your thoughts and ideas. We know that there is a great wealth of knowledge, skills and experience across our now, nearly 600 members…