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Summer News from the Beehive and Beyond! It has been a busy and very exciting few months, with lots happening across our projects. From celebrating our wonderful volunteers and winning awards, to harvesting delicious fruit and vegetables, enjoying teddy bear picnics and even filming a documentary about hedgehogs! Celebrating Our Volunteers First of all, a…
Developing the site Another section of thistles and docks has been cleared on the allotment this winter by our Tuesday adult volunteers. Growing from seed is partly undertaken in the nursery rooms, partly at volunteers’ homes so that we have plenty to plant out on newly prepared plots. In early spring, nursery children helped…
A Proud Day for Dunbar Day Centre Buddies! Volunteer Centre East Lothian hosted a wonderful celebration of volunteering, and little did we know that all the teams and individuals who made the shortlist were winners!Our young volunteers had a fantastic afternoon hearing about the incredible work being carried out across East Lothian. It would have…
The Dunbar Community Shed are now taking orders for producing hedgehog houses made right on your doorstep. These houses were designed in partnership with Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project and are made in a more environmentally friendly way by using recycled heat treated pallets and painted on the outside with eco friendly non toxic wood preservative.…
Appeal for financial pledges NHS Lothian are currently evaluating our request to purchase Belhaven Community Garden so that it is protected in the long term for the benefit of everyone living in the local area. We expect to hear their decision in July. In the meantime, we are busy preparing an application to the Scottish Land…
Saturday, 23rd May, 10am-1pm, Belhaven Community Garden A free workshop on honey bees and natural beekeeping. Spend a morning with the honey-bees. We will gather around the garden’s top-bar hives, observe life at the hive entrance, open a hive and learn more about honey-bee ecology, behaviour and low intervention, natural beekeeping. For anyone curious about…
A multi-disciplinary programme to help revive a depleted landscape Sustaining Dunbar’s ‘River Catchment Restoration Project’ aims to help kickstart landscape-scale restoration of biodiversity across East Lammermuir. As part of this, FLOW, will involve practitioners from sciences and creative arts, farmers, land managers and local communities in a process to develop a shared understanding and plans…
To celebrate National Hedgehog Awareness Week, (3rd to 9th May 2026), Sustaining Dunbar’s ‘Pledgehog Project’ have announced that they will be putting out 20 hedgehog houses around Dunbar to provide more safe nesting places for hedgehogs. Now that the weather is warming up, hedgehogs will now be out of hibernation and focusing on building up…
At Belhaven Community Garden, 2-4pm, Sunday 17th May Belhaven Community Garden is in the grounds of (the now disused) Belhaven Hospital (EH42 1TR) and can be accessed from Beveridge Row or from Pine Street.
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…