Pupils, parents and staff at West Barns Primary School are working together, with support from Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project, to achieve a ‘Hedgehog Friendly School Award’. This involves them protecting hedgehogs, enhancing their habitat and educating others on how they can help. The school aims to complete as many actions as possible from a hedgehog-friendly…
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Save Belhaven Community Garden
Call to Action! NHS Lothian have now received and officially acknowledged our application to take Belhaven Community Garden into community ownership so as to protect this asset for the benefit of everyone living in the Dunbar and East Linton ward in the long term. As part of the process, “anyone may make representations about this…
With our minds beginning to turn towards gardening after a long winter, it’s a good time to highlight the very real danger of strimming for hedgehogs. Hedgehogs often shelter in longer grass and don’t run away when they hear loud noises or are frightened, but instead their safety mechanism is to curl up into a…
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Wild River Walk Two
Spott Burn Upper Reaches Sunday 22nd February 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus Derbridge The second of three ‘Wild River Walks’ (every last Sunday of Jan, Feb and Mar) exploring the Spott Burn from the river’s point of view. This month we will explore some of the upper reaches, starting up the Brock Burn and…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next café, Wednesday 11th February, 2026 An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and ideas and plan Community Action in the context of the climate and nature emergencies. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation…
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Wild River Walks
Wild River Walk One -Brox Burn Lower Reaches Sunday 25th January 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus Derbridge NOTE: Because of the recent wet weather and flooding in the lower reaches, this Sunday’s walk will now explore the middle reaches near Spott village. Meet at Spott Village Hall at 10am The first of three ‘Wild…
Happy New Year and happy growing from the Outreach Team! We would like to start the year by looking back at some lovely moments from before Christmas and sharing what’s coming up next across our projects. Nursery Outreach & The Beehive Garden Our young volunteers from Dunbar Grammar have been an amazing support to everyone…
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Wassailing at BCG
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…
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Riverflies on the Biel -update
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…
It’s that time of year when I like to look back and think about how well the past year has gone. We realise that none of our Pledgehog Project could have happened without our supporters and funders to which we are extremely grateful! So today’s blog is to celebrate the continued support there is to…