Friday 24th October, 7pm, Dunbar Town House Filmshow Discover the untold stories of the forest in a spectacular new wildlife adventure! This poetic and beautiful documentary follows a year in the life of a majestic, 210-year-old oak tree and its many inhabitants, exploring the immensely rich universe thriving beneath its branches. Featuring a unique cast…
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Dunbar Community Bakery Appeal
A message from the Chair Dunbar Community Bakery is leaking! Every town needs a High Street and every High Street needs a bakery. So when Dunbar’s last family run bakery closed in 2010. a group of Sustaining Dunbar’s members set out to discover if the community could run a bakery. The answer was a resounding…
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Waterways
Community arts workshops mapping our local burns. Over the coming months we are planning a series of community arts and other workshops in connection with the Rivers Project, an initiative seeking to kick-start landscape scale action across all five of the short river catchments in East Lammermuir. We are starting with some creative mapping workshops, using art…
Normally on the Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church *****But this month only it will be on the third Wednesday***** Wednesday October 15th 2025 An open, inclusive, café space for people to get together to talk, share concerns and plan Climate Action. Everyone is welcome to join the conversation and get…
Catch up with Carey’s work here! The Poly & Allotment What a roasty-toasty summer it has been – sometimes a bit too hot to work in the polytunnel! The sunshine did wonders for the tomatoes, though, which turned out super delicious. The children especially loved picking and eating them straight from the vine. The Peas…
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Shorelines and Tidemarks
Exhibition, John Muir Birthplace, August 6th to September 28th. Wednesday to Saturday, 10am-5pm, Sunday 1-5pm David Attenborough introduces his latest film with the simple statement that ‘The Oceans are the most important place on Earth.’ For its first billion years our planet was an inhospitable place. Then around 3.5 billion years ago elements and energies…
The new Dunbar Plant-based Community Kitchen is holding their first evening meal and the great news is that Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledeghog Project has been chosen as the nominated charity for the proceeds to go to from this event. ‘Nooch Spott’ is a brand new venture where you can enjoy a three course plant-based meal in…
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East Lothian Heat
East Lothian Heat is a visionary infrastructure project that has grown out of East Lothian Council’s Local Heat and Energy Efficiency Strategy (LHEES) that was published in October 2024. East Lothian Heat’s aim is to deliver clean, affordable heat across the Lothians by capturing local waste heat and renewable energy in a heat network, under…
A new video has been made thanks to Sandy Butler and East Lothian Climate Action Network to showcase Sustaining Dunbar’s Pledgehog Project. It was filmed in the fantastic Belhaven Community Garden and includes wonderful arial footage of the garden. Please also have a look at another couple of initiatives in East Lothian that have the…
A young male hedgehog was found sitting around in the daytime at Winterfield Park entrance in Dunbar on 23rd April. He was extremely poorly and luckily was rescued and taken to Burntisland Hedgehog Haven who have done an amazing job at getting him better 🥰 See here for their original facebook post where they called…