Sustaining Dunbar
Our Rivers project is a partnership between Sustaining Dunbar and Forth Rivers Trust. The first, year-long phase, funded by a grant from the Neighbourhood Ecosystem Restoration fund with match funding from the East Lammermuir Community Benefit Fund is just finishing and the second phase is just beginning. In this second phase we are aiming to create…
Sunday 12th July, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Come and create “Mosslings” – small sculptural forms made from materials foraged from the local landscape. Inspired by Scottish folk traditions, you’ll transform plants, fibres, and found natural materials into tactile creations that will join a communal exhibition in July. If…
Sunday 5th July, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Learn to capture the textures and patterns of the natural world using plaster and clay in this hands-on casting workshop. Explore the landscape around Spott Village Hall to forage materials, before transforming your finds into beautiful botanical casts. Discover how to…
Sunday 21st June, 10am – 12pm & 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Discover the hidden magic where botany meets photography in this hands-on creative workshop. Explore alternative photography techniques using plants as photographic emulsions and developers. Try your hand at Lumen printing – a sun-powered photographic process from the 1830s -combined with Phytograms,…
Sunday 7th June, 2pm – 4pm Spott Village Hall, Dunbar Discover the Japanese art of creating ‘mud balls’ while exploring the rich pigments hidden in Dunbar’s unique landscape. Learn the slow, satisfying process of transforming clay and sand into beautifully polished spheres. You’ll also get an introduction to creating natural earth pigments from Dunbar’s distinctive…
Sunday 7th June, 10am – 12.00 Meet at Spott Village Hall for a walk and explore along the Spott Burn Join Henry Mathias – Thrive Outdoors Associate, to explore the glen from a new angle. The stories about plants and animals and the traditions connected with them will stimulate your curiosity and imagination. If you’re…
FLOW is a series of creative activities running on Sundays from 7th June through to Sunday 12th July 2026 as part of our wider Rivers Project. Based at Spott Village Hall, we will explore the Spott Burn and its surroundings through a series of walks and creative workshops with Katie Fowlie (artist/educator/forager). All activities are…
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…
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…
Spott Burn Upper Reaches Sunday 22nd February 10am-1pm An exploratory walk with Renatus Derbridge The second of three ‘Wild River Walks’ (every last Sunday of Jan, Feb and Mar) exploring the Spott Burn from the river’s point of view. This month we will explore some of the upper reaches, starting up the Brock Burn and…