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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…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next café, Wednesday 10th December An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and plan Climate Action. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get involved. Simple lunch Soup (plant based) & Bread – wholemeal…
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…
Friday 24th October, 7pm, Dunbar Town House Filmshow Discover the untold stories of the forest in a spectacular new wildlife adventure! This poetic and beautiful documentary follows a year in the life of a majestic, 210-year-old oak tree and its many inhabitants, exploring the immensely rich universe thriving beneath its branches. Featuring a unique cast…
A message from the Chair Dunbar Community Bakery is leaking! Every town needs a High Street and every High Street needs a bakery. So when Dunbar’s last family run bakery closed in 2010. a group of Sustaining Dunbar’s members set out to discover if the community could run a bakery. The answer was a resounding…
Thanks to everyone who came along for the Wild about West Barns ‘migratory birds’ walk on Sunday evening. We walked around the village and discussed our urban summer migrants, noting that while the swift colony had looked fairly healthy (they have already left for Africa), there haven’t been any breeding house martins in West Barns this…