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. 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 are starting with some creative mapping workshops, using art…
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Go Wild for Hedgehogs!
A fantastic way to encourage prickly visitors into your garden is by embracing the wild! Give a section of your garden back to nature and it can provide natural insect food and nesting materials for hedgehogs. 1. Choose your wild patch It could be a corner at the back or a strip along the side…
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…
Catch up with Carey’s work here! The Poly & Allotment What a roasty-toasty summer it has been – sometimes a bit too hot to work in the polytunnel! The sunshine did wonders for the tomatoes, though, which turned out super delicious. The children especially loved picking and eating them straight from the vine. The Peas…
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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…
The new Dunbar Plant-based Community Kitchen is holding their first evening meal and the great news is that Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledeghog Project has been chosen as the nominated charity for the proceeds to go to from this event. ‘Nooch Spott’ is a brand new venture where you can enjoy a three course plant-based meal in…