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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…
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…
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…
With our minds beginning to turn towards gardening after a long winter, it’s a good time to highlight the very real danger of strimming for hedgehogs. Hedgehogs often shelter in longer grass and don’t run away when they hear loud noises or are frightened, but instead their safety mechanism is to curl up into a…
Happy New Year and happy growing from the Outreach Team! We would like to start the year by looking back at some lovely moments from before Christmas and sharing what’s coming up next across our projects. Nursery Outreach & The Beehive Garden Our young volunteers from Dunbar Grammar have been an amazing support to everyone…