Sustaining Dunbar
Scottish Communities Climate Action Network is currently recruiting Network Coordinators for ten regions across Scotland, including East Lothian. This investment in regional networking is funded by the Scottish Government and it intended to enable consolidation and expansion of the work of existing community climate action networks, such as the fledgling East Lothian Climate Climate Action…
Seeking more (very) small-scale wheat farmers for 2022. Do you have a sunny square metre or more of garden that you could use to grow a patch of heritage wheat this season? I’m seeking more growers to join our existing group of ‘patchwork wheat farmers’ across Dunbar and District in this participatory research project. The…
February 2022 Dear Sustaining Dunbar Member, The New Year is a time when many of us are looking to the coming months and planning for change. At Sustaining Dunbar this is an on-going and urgent theme that drives our work as a Community Development Trust. In October we joined with other local groups in a…
This year, despite the ongoing restrictions imposed by Covid, we are keen to find ways to enable our members to meet up with each other. We hope that Second Sunday Social Strolls will become a regular slot in your diary every month and look forward to seeing you for our first one this Sunday afternoon.Sunday 9th January. Meet at 2pm at…
Just before Christmas we were excited to be informed that Sustaining Dunbar has been awarded £18,000 from the Scotland Loves Local Fund administered through the Scotland’s Towns Partnership. This initiative is about encouraging people to ‘think, choose and love local’. This aim has a close fit with our own aim of enabling our people, community…
As more and more people wake up to the enormity of the challenge posed by the climate crisis, how can we best support each other and face up to the mess we are in without being overwhelmed? Active Hope is about finding, and offering, our best response to global issues in this time of unfolding crisis.…
Fifteen local growers plus Innerwick, Stenton and East Linton primary schools took part in this year’s wheat growing project -part of Scotland the Bread’s ‘Soil to Slice‘ project. This is an educational and awareness raising project that has the eventual aim of developing a locally adapted ‘landrace’ of wheat that is genetically diverse, resilient, nutritious…
In November this year, Glasgow will host the COP26 UN climate talks, bringing together world leaders to make crucial decisions about protecting our future on the planet. From 17th – 29th October, at least 100 people are undertaking a 70-mile Pilgrimage for COP26. This journey, organised to reflect on the climate and ecological crisis in anticipation of the…
The soil and soul of walking to COP26 A talk by Alastair McIntosh to launch the Pilgrimage from Dunbar to Glasgow COP26 A pilgrimage doesn’t usually come from nowhere. In most of us, it will have built up over a period of both conscious and unconscious preparation. This is because a pilgrimage is not just…
‘Not Without Us’ Film Screening: East Linton Community Hall, 25th September 2021 As part of local pre-COP26 activity, Pix in the Stix – in association with Sustaining Dunbar, Climate Action East Linton and Take One Action – hosted a screening of ‘Not Without Us’, a 2016 Cert (12+) documentary that connects the dots between growing economic…