Sustaining Dunbar
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…
Tuesday 5th May, 7.30pm at Station Yard micropub EH42 1JX This is the first of a proposed quarterly social meet-up and discussion group. Each meet-up will be focussed around the issues raised by a particular book, article, podcast etc…and its relevance to us and our community. For this initial meeting, we will be discussing Rutger…
Wednesday 22nd April, 7.30-9pm, Dunbar Parish Church, EH42 1LB Come and hear your parliamentary candidates. All welcome. Please send suggestions for questions to: info@sustainingdunbar.org by 17th April. Organised by Dunbar Churches Eco-Group in conjunction with Sustaining Dunbar.
As part of the next phase of our Rivers Project, we are recruiting for a Catchment Restoration Development Officer. This is a part-time (4-days per week), fixed-term role to the end of March 2027. The role may be extended subject to funding. See the role description and person specification. Application deadline, 5pm on Sunday 19th…
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…
Call to Action! NHS Lothian have now received and officially acknowledged our application to take Belhaven Community Garden into community ownership so as to protect this asset for the benefit of everyone living in the Dunbar and East Linton ward in the long term. As part of the process, “anyone may make representations about this…
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…