Our Locality

Since 2010 our safe and secure family friendly website platform has been grown with locally sourced content and powered by open source software, binding local communities online without corporate interference with your personal data. No intrusive adverts or pop ups.

Ourlocality is “totally locally owned” by Sustaining Dunbar, which subsidises the service for all users.

Paid Plans get extra free support, provided pro bono. Free Plan users can invite a friend to help them.

Support for a website is literally round the corner, in sunniest Dunbar.


Local Network News

  • by @ourlocality
    The latest release of WordPress 6.9 introduces intuitive ways to create and manage content. The detail is increasingly aligned to fit a […]
  • by philip
    Saturday 10th January 2026, 2-4pm, Belhaven Community Garden Wassailing is an ancient winter tradition originating from the Anglo-Saxon toast “Waes Hael” (be […]
  • by philip
    Riverfly monitoring is a UK wide citizen science project which, in Scotland, is coordinated and supported by Buglife. Riverflies are invertebrates that […]
  • by @ourlocality
    The Death of Email Forwarding is an interesting read. I quote: Over the years there have been various different approaches to authenticating […]
  • by jenw
    It’s that time of year when I like to look back and think about how well the past year has gone. We […]
  • by bethl
    Belltown Power have let us know that their application for 15 wind turbines and a battery storage facility is now proceeding to […]
  • by jenw
    I thought it might be a nice idea to spread the hedgehog love this Christmas and list some hedgehoggy ideas for Christmas […]
  • by philip
    Background This project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust and is being funded by a grant from the […]
  • by bethl
    Following on from the Energy Efficiency workshop in October, alongside Sustaining Dunbar and Insulate Innerwick’s work, you now have the opportunity over […]
  • by philip
    Tree Planting in West Barns (16th November 2025) Wild about West Barns joined the East Lothian Countryside Rangers on Sunday 16th November […]
  • by George
    A personal family Account by Sir Hew Dalrymple The Society is delighted to present this talk by Sir Hew Dalrymple at 2.30 […]