Background This project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust and is being funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Restoration fund which we are pleased to have been able to match with funding from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit Fund. It is a small project but with the ambitious aim…
Tree Planting in West Barns (16th November 2025) Wild about West Barns joined the East Lothian Countryside Rangers on Sunday 16th November to help plant a whopping 524 young trees in a new community woodland behind West Barns Bowling Club! The woodland planting started in Spring 2025 and has been extended this Autumn with the…
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DGS Volunteers
Welcoming our new autumn 2025 volunteers from Dunbar Grammar School We are delighted to welcome on board our new autumn 2025 volunteers at the Beehive Garden and Dunbar Day Centre. Sixteen enthusiastic young people have signed up to volunteer with us in the Beehive Garden, supporting outdoor play and nature-based activities with the nursery children! …
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Waterways
Community arts workshops mapping our local burns Saturday 8th November, 10am-1pm, Stenton Village Hall –book 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…
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A cuppa and cake
A networking drop-in for Sustaining Dunbar members, old and new. Saturday 15th November, 10am-midday, Ramshackle Café, Bleachingfield Centre, Dunbar Meet other members, find out what Sustaining Dunbar is doing just now and share your thoughts and ideas. We know that there is a great wealth of knowledge, skills and experience across our now, nearly 600 members…
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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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…
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…