Sustaining Dunbar
Riverfly monitoring is a UK wide citizen science project which, in Scotland, is coordinated and supported by Buglife. Riverflies are invertebrates that spend most of their life cycle in a river, stream, pond or lake. The three key groups are stoneflies, caddisflies and mayflies. Along with other freshwater invertebrates, they are at the heart of…
It’s that time of year when I like to look back and think about how well the past year has gone. We realise that none of our Pledgehog Project could have happened without our supporters and funders to which we are extremely grateful! So today’s blog is to celebrate the continued support there is to…
I thought it might be a nice idea to spread the hedgehog love this Christmas and list some hedgehoggy ideas for Christmas gifts for friends and family. I have picked some of my favourites, but there are a wide variety of hedgehog themed gifts on The British Hedgehog Preservation Society website you can also look…
Background This project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust and is being funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Restoration fund which we are pleased to have been able to match with funding from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit Fund. It is a small project but with the ambitious aim…
Tree Planting in West Barns (16th November 2025) Wild about West Barns joined the East Lothian Countryside Rangers on Sunday 16th November to help plant a whopping 524 young trees in a new community woodland behind West Barns Bowling Club! The woodland planting started in Spring 2025 and has been extended this Autumn with the…
Welcoming our new autumn 2025 volunteers from Dunbar Grammar School We are delighted to welcome on board our new autumn 2025 volunteers at the Beehive Garden and Dunbar Day Centre. Sixteen enthusiastic young people have signed up to volunteer with us in the Beehive Garden, supporting outdoor play and nature-based activities with the nursery children! …
Community arts workshops mapping our local burns Saturday 8th November, 10am-1pm, Stenton Village Hall –book 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…
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…
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…
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…