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…
Second Wed of the month 12.30-14.00 – St Anne’s Church Next Café, July 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…
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Coastal Connections Events
This year we’re making Coastal Connections – an invitation to explore our coastline and your creativity. This is our latest project supporting a process of reconnecting with, respecting and restoring our environments. David Attenborough introduces his latest film with the simple statement that ‘The Oceans are the most important place on Earth.’ The Oceans are…
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River Catchment Restoration
We’re delighted to have received some funding from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Fund which has now been matched with a grant from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit fund to enable us to set up a pilot project to kickstart action to implement landscape scale restoration of biodiversity. Read more about our aspirations on this project page.…
Saturday 21st June, 2025, 10am-midday, AGM at 11am The Ridge Function Room, Black Bull Close, Dunbar Access from Dunbar High Street via Garden Lane (between Flux and Found) or up the steps from the Coop car park Drop in for: All welcome! As a charity we depend on our board of volunteer trustees to oversee…
Civic Week Film Show, Tuesday 17th June, 6.30-8.45pm, Dunbar Town House, EH42 1TR For Dunbar Civic Week, Sustaining Dunbar is hosting “The Salt of the Earth”, a thought provoking and inspiring biographical documentary film. A collaboration between Wim Wenders and Juliano Ribeiro Salgado, son of celebrated photographer Sebastião Salgado. Film will be followed by a discussion. Free…
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Dawn Chorus
You only get so many Mays in your life so, around first light at 4.30am on Sunday, I spend a happy hour sitting by the pond in Binning Wood (it being International Dawn Chorus Day). A great way to start the day -and well removed from the raucous gulls that normally wake us. This is…