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…
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Dunbar Community Bakery Appeal
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…
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Waterways
Community arts workshops mapping our local burns Saturday 25th October, 11am-2pm, Spott Village Hall –book 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…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church *****But this month only it will be on the third Wednesday***** Wednesday October 15th 2025 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…
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Migratory Birds Walk
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…
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Wild About West Barns
Autumn Community Gatherings bringing together neighbours and friends to explore our village and its amazing wildlife:
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Shorelines and Tidemarks
Exhibition, John Muir Birthplace, August 6th to September 28th. Wednesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Sunday 1-5pm David Attenborough introduces his latest film with the simple statement that ‘The Oceans are the most important place on Earth.’ For its first billion years our planet was an inhospitable place. Then around 3.5 billion years ago elements and energies…
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East Lothian Heat
East Lothian Heat is a visionary infrastructure project that has grown out of East Lothian Council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) that was published in October 2024. East Lothian Heat’s aim is to deliver clean, affordable heat across the Lothians by capturing local waste heat and renewable energy in a heat network, under…
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Coastal Connections Events
This year we’re making Coastal Connections – an invitation to explore our coastline and your creativity. This is our latest project supporting a process of reconnecting with, respecting and restoring our environments. David Attenborough introduces his latest film with the simple statement that ‘The Oceans are the most important place on Earth.’ The Oceans are…
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River Catchment Restoration
We’re delighted to have received some funding from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund which has now been matched with a grant from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit fund to enable us to set up a pilot project to kickstart action to implement landscape scale restoration of biodiversity. Read more about our aspirations on this project page.…