Friday 19th June, 6.30pm-9pm, Dunbar Town House Sustaining Dunbar’s AGM will be followed by a community screening of the accalimed David Attenborough film OCEAN. This will be a FREE event but booking is recommended as space is limited.
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Flow
A multi-disciplinary programme to help revive a depleted landscape Sustaining Dunbar’s ‘River Catchment Restoration Project’ aims to help kickstart landscape-scale restoration of biodiversity across East Lammermuir. As part of this, FLOW, will involve practitioners from sciences and creative arts, farmers, land managers and local communities in a process to develop a shared understanding and plans…
To celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, (3rd to 9th May 2026), Sustaining Dunbar’s ‘Pledgehog Project’ have announced that they will be putting out 20 hedgehog houses around Dunbar to provide more safe nesting places for hedgehogs. Now that the weather is warming up, hedgehogs will now be out of hibernation and focusing on building up…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 In St. Anne’s Church, Westgate, Dunbar, EH42 1JL Next café, Wednesday 13th May, 2026 An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and ideas and plan action in the context of the climate and nature emergencies. Everyone is welcome to…
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Seedling Swap
At Belhaven Community Garden, 2-4pm, Sunday 17th May Belhaven Community Garden is in the grounds of (the now disused) Belhaven Hospital (EH42 1TR) and can be accessed from Beveridge Row or from Pine Street.
Tuesday 5th May, 7.30pm at Station Yard micropub EH42 1JX This is the first of a proposed quarterly social meet-up and discussion group. Each meet-up will be focussed around the issues raised by a particular book, article, podcast etc…and its relevance to us and our community. For this initial meeting, we will be discussing Rutger…
Wednesday 22nd April, 7.30-9pm, Dunbar Parish Church, EH42 1LB Come and hear your parliamentary candidates. All welcome. Please send suggestions for questions to: info@sustainingdunbar.org by 17th April. Organised by Dunbar Churches Eco-Group in conjunction with Sustaining Dunbar.
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Meet the Honey Bees
Saturday 25th April, 10am-1pm, Belhaven Community Garden Meet the Bees -an introductory workshop for anyone interested to learn more about the life of a honey bee colony. Join us for a friendly morning gathering at Belhaven Community Garden. Meet the bees and learn how to “read” what’s happening in and around a hive. We’ll begin…
A hedgehog-themed evening was enjoyed with the 1st Dunbar Squirrels at the Beehive Garden recently with Jen, our Pledgehog Officer and Carey, our Outreach Officer. We visited the hedgehog shelter and looked at videos of hedgehogs taken by our local cameras, had a bug hunt for creepy crawlies (hedgehog food), made clay hedgehogs, sang songs…
As part of the next phase of our Rivers Project, we are recruiting for a Catchment Restoration Development Officer. This is a part-time (4-days per week), fixed-term role to the end of March 2027. The role may be extended subject to funding. See the role description and person specification. Application deadline, 5pm on Sunday 19th…