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…
Tuesday 5th May, 7.30pm at Station Yard 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 Bregman’s 2021 book…
Wednesday 22nd April, 7.30-9pm, Dunbar Parish Church, EH42 1LB Come and hear all 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…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 In St. Anne’s Church, Westgate, Dunbar, EH42 1JL Note that this month (April 2026) the café will be on the third Wednesday, 15th April and we are back in St. Anne’s Church Next café, Wednesday 15th April, 2026 An open, inclusive, café space for people to…
Saturday 28th March, 7-9.30pm, Belhaven Church Hall, EH42 1NH Sustaining Dunbar invites members new and old to our latest ‘Potluck’, bring and share meal. 6.30pm for meal at 7pm. Presentation and question time about our Rivers Project and other local biodiversity initiatives at 8pm. Bring some food and drink to share (if you can -there is always…
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Wild River Walk Three
Brox/Spott Burn Lower Reaches, Sunday 29th March 2026, 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus DerbridgeThe third of three ‘Wild River Walks’ (every last Sunday of Jan, Feb and Mar) exploring the Spott Burn from the river’s point of view. We will stay as close as possible to the water and let the river be our…
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…