Sustaining Dunbar
Spring is definitely in the air and our community is buzzing with ideas. Themes are emerging and one of them is ‘Coastal Connections’. Closeness to the sea is one of the many special qualities of our location but how much do we really know and understand about the marine environments? We are fortunate to have…
We are seeking volunteers to join a small team monitoring the health of one or more of our local burns. You will receive free online and practical training from Buglife UK in how to sample for riverfly larvae which provide a good proxy for the health of a watercourse. Riverflies are invertebrates that spend most…
Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next Café, April 9th 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 involved. Simple lunch Soup (plant based) & Bread – wholemeal sourdough. local organic…
Fourth Wednesday of the month, 6pm-7.30 pm, St. Anne’s Church, Dunbar Next Cafe: Wednesday 23rd April During February, March and April Sustaining Dunbar and St Anne’s Church will be hosting an evening Climate Café that will run on the same format as the lunchtime cafe. The evening cafe will be the fourth Wednesday of the…
Our Pledgehog Project Officer, Jen Walker, was interviewed by Gary McGregor on his ‘Home straight with Gary McGregor’ show on East Coast FM radio on 28th February. They talked a bit about the project and what we can be doing to help hedgehogs at this time of year. Click here to listen again.
This month, now spring is in the air, hedgehogs will begin to emerge from hibernation. After a long period without food, they might have lost around a third of their body weight. This is the perfect time to start putting out supplementary food and water as they will be extremely hungry. The hedgehog’s natural diet…
This month, before hedgehogs come out of hibernation, I would like to urge you to have a look around your garden, or outdoor space, to try and make it a safer place for hedgehogs to visit when the Spring comes. Why not try and imagine that you’re a hedgehog, snuffling around at night looking for…
IMPORTANT!We need your viewsPlease respond to this survey What you would like to see happening at Belhaven Community Garden in future if we succeed in securing community ownership?This survey is a crucial part of the ‘market research’ necessary for developing a business plan to accompany our ‘community asset transfer’ application to NHS Lothian.Please share with your…
Friday 14th March, 7-9.30pm, Dunbar Parish Church Hall FREE but please make a donation if you can. The ‘business as usual’ economic system that is running our societies has a very narrow focus: We must “grow the GDP”, i.e. make more money, no matter the cost and without asking what is growing and who is…
The Pledgehog Project have some hedgehog highway hole signs to give away for free if you make a gap to let hedgehogs through your fence. Hedgehogs need a gap the size of a CD case (13 cm squared) to get into your garden or outdoor space. Once you have made your gap if you add…