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…
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Meet the Bees
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…
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Flow
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…
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Seedling Swap
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.
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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…
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…