Sunday 18th May, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Bring you spare young seedlings to swap. Or just come and buy seedlings for your own garden. Guided tours of the community garden and orchard….
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Tuesday 6th May, 8-9.30pm in the ‘Back of the Mack’ Last month we shared some information about Coastal Connections – our programme of community-wide engagement to tap in to local groups, activities and knowledge about our coastal environments. The project aims to harness and develop deeper connection with out seas, increase awareness of the pressures…
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Coastal Connections
Spring is definitely in the air and our community is buzzing with ideas. Themes are emerging and one of them is ‘Coastal Connections’. Closeness to the sea is one of the many special qualities of our location but how much do we really know and understand about the marine environments? We are fortunate to have…
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Could you be a River Guardian?
We are seeking volunteers to join a small team monitoring the health of one or more of our local burns. You will receive free online and practical training from Buglife UK in how to sample for riverfly larvae which provide a good proxy for the health of a watercourse. Riverflies are invertebrates that spend most…
Fourth Wednesday of the month, 6pm-7.30 pm, St. Anne’s Church, Dunbar Next Cafe: Wednesday 28th May Sustaining Dunbar and St Anne’s Church are now hosting an evening Climate Café that will run on the same format as the lunchtime cafe with soup (plant based) & bread – wholemeal sourdough, local organic produce. Optional: Bring cake/…
IMPORTANT!We need your viewsPlease respond to this survey What you would like to see happening at Belhaven Community Garden in future if we succeed in securing community ownership?This survey is a crucial part of the ‘market research’ necessary for developing a business plan to accompany our ‘community asset transfer’ application to NHS Lothian.Please share with your…
Friday 14th March, 7-9.30pm, Dunbar Parish Church Hall FREE but please make a donation if you can. The ‘business as usual’ economic system that is running our societies has a very narrow focus: We must “grow the GDP”, i.e. make more money, no matter the cost and without asking what is growing and who is…
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Community Heat Team
Our volunteer run Community Heat Team project has now launched. The team are available to carry out an evening infra-red heat survey inside your home to highlight where your home is losing heat – enabling you to take action to reduce heat loss. This could save you money, help you stay warmer and help reduce…
Sign up for a winter fruit tree pruning workshop run by Danny Wight and Naomi Barnes, experienced local fruit tree growers. Money raised will go to Tyninghame Community Farm and Belhaven Community Garden. Details in the sign up links below. Sunday 26th January, 1-3.30pm at Tyninghame Community Farm Tuesday 11th February, 10am-12pm at Belhaven Community…
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Number 95 update
This is a very belated update on what happened to our attempt to purchase the former Bank of Scotland branch and to set up a community-owned coworking and local enterprise hub. In brief, having failed to make use of the Community Right to Buy legislation, as outlined in our June update, we also failed to get…