Working together for our future SUSTAINING DUNBAR “BeGreen... made us more aware as a family of what we could do to cut energy use and cost.” “I buy local whenever I can.” “We are planning a regular produce market in Dunbar.” “It isn’t safe to cycle to Innerwick, there is nowhere to cross the A1 safely.” “We are learning the skills to be more resilient.” “Dunbar’s community spirit helps people work together.” “We need a station at East Linton.” “Now I am growing my own vegetables on my new allotment.”
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Working together for our futureSUSTAINING DUNBAROur Needs
This is a crucial time in the development of this exciting initiative. We have hit the ground running and during our � rst couple of years have inspired, supported and developed many valuable and interesting initiatives. We have already had a marked impact on Dunbar and the surrounding area and have begun delivering projects that will meet the future needs of this community.
We aim to become a � nancially self-supporting organisation as soon as possible. We are working to develop a sustainable income from community owned wind turbines and pro� table trading subsidiaries. Our investment fund will become a key enabler of initiatives that are working to create a low-carbon, resilient future for this area in line with our ‘2025 - Local Resilience Action Plan’. However, in the medium term we need to fundraise. We have a funding gap for our core team for the next two years. We need funding partners, who share our vision and principles, to work with us to help secure this long-term income stream and to provide some temporary bridging � nance for our core support services.
We are very keen to hear from charitable trusts, grant funds and businesses that share our vision and would be willing to work with us to deliver a sustainable future for Sustaining Dunbar.
Our StructureWe are a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. 351910, Scottish Charity No. SC040106. Membership is open to any local resident who is eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward of East Lothian. We have a Board of seven directors elected by the membership and can co-opt three more if special skills are required. The current Board has wide-ranging skills and experience with links to many other local organisations. Two directors are also elected members of East Lothian Council.
We are an enabling organisation. Our core services facilitate new initiatives and support local projects that are in line with our aims. Some of the projects we have initiated are now independent organisations but we remain closely linked and we continue to provide support as we can.
More information available fromSustaining Dunbar, 16 West Port, Dunbar, EH42 1BU
http://sustainingdunbar.org. Sign up online for regular updates.
“BeGreen... made us more aware as a family of what we could do to
cut energy use and cost.”
“I buy local whenever I can.”
“We are planning a regular produce market
in Dunbar.”
“It isn’t safe to cycle to Innerwick, there is nowhere
to cross the A1 safely.”
Investment Fund
Su
pport services
Proj
ect in
cubator and networking
“Sustaining Dunbar is a marvelous example of creative local action to move to a low carbon community. I have seen how Sustaining Dunbar
is building many productive local relationships in pursuit of reducing emissions in areas such as food, transport and energy. It clearly has the drive to succeed in its vision for a low carbon Dunbar and I wish
everyone success for the future.”
Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Climate Change
“We are learning the skills to be more
resilient.”
“Dunbar’s community spirit helps people work
together.”
“We need a station at East Linton.”
“Now I am growing my own vegetables on my
new allotment.”
Sustaining Dunbar covers the Dunbar and East Linton ward of East Lothian and includes all villages and outlying areas in the Dunbar ‘school cluster’ area - including Oldhamstocks, Innerwick, Spott, West Barns, Stenton, Tyninghame and East Linton. The area contains approximately 5000 households with a population of about 12000.
The local population has grown by 17% in the last ten years, 25% are aged 0-15 years and 20% are 65 or over. 20% of those in employment commute out of East Lothian to work.
Sustaining Dunbar’s aim is to bring people together to plan and start creating a positive and sustainable future for Dunbar and District. We believe that the challenges we face are also an opportunity; that as we create a vibrant and resilient low-carbon future for ourselves, we will be creating opportunities for learning new skills, for strengthening local networks and relationships, for restoring and enhancing the local environment, for creating meaningful work and new employment opportunities ... and much more.
We aim to:
Be open and inclusive and to value everyone’s contribution.
Build on and strengthen existing community structures and networks.
Create new links and connections, to facilitate, to support and to enable.
Promote quality in everything we do.
Ensure that our work is environmentally and socially sustainable.
To understand and learn from the past as we create a vision of a sustainable future.
To use social enterprise to create employment whilst becoming � nancially self-supporting as an organisation.
We live in interesting times!
Change is inevitable. We will have to reduce our fossil fuel consumption by 50% over the next � fteen years both to meet Scottish Government Climate Change targets and because of the decline in world oil production. That means each of us reducing our consumption by about 5% a year, every year. As oil production declines, oil prices will increase and become more volatile and supplies will be subject to disruption. Major changes to the global economy will be inevitable. We must expect an increasing number of extreme local weather events due to increases in global average temperature.
Given these challenges, what will our locality look like in 2025? How can we come together to build a vibrant low-carbon economy for the Dunbar area, resilient enough to cope with the challenges that we will face? How will we ensure a reliable food supply? How will we provide the energy we need? How will we create suitable local workspace, employment and a workforce with the skills we are going to need? How will we maintain our health and wellbeing?
We are developing detailed action plans for creating a more localised, vibrant and resilient local economy. This will not only help us prepare for and cope with the major challenges ahead but will also create signi� cant opportunities - for meaningful work, to develop new skills, to strengthen community networks and to restore and enhance the local environment.
Our area
Our PartnersEast Lothian Council, East Lothian Community Planning Partnership, Carbon Neutral Stenton, Dunbar Arts Trust, Dunbar Community Woodland Group, Dunbar Community Development Company, Community Windpower Limited, Dunbar Harbour Trust, local community councils, local schools, Dunbar Trade’s Association and more….
Working in partnership is crucial to our success. We greatly value the relationships which we have developed to date and look forward to developing further partnerships in future.
Our FundersWe are very grateful for the support that we have received from:Scottish Climate Challenge Fund, Investing in Ideas, Awards for All, East Lothian Council, Community Energy Scotland and Dunbar Community Council.
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Working together for our futureSUSTAINING DUNBAR Our Needs
This is a crucial time in the development of this exciting initiative. We have hit the ground running and during our � rst couple of years have inspired, supported and developed many valuable and interesting initiatives. We have already had a marked impact on Dunbar and the surrounding area and have begun delivering projects that will meet the future needs of this community.
We aim to become a � nancially self-supporting organisation as soon as possible. We are working to develop a sustainable income from community owned wind turbines and pro� table trading subsidiaries. Our investment fund will become a key enabler of initiatives that are working to create a low-carbon, resilient future for this area in line with our ‘2025 - Local Resilience Action Plan’. However, in the medium term we need to fundraise. We have a funding gap for our core team for the next two years. We need funding partners, who share our vision and principles, to work with us to help secure this long-term income stream and to provide some temporary bridging � nance for our core support services.
We are very keen to hear from charitable trusts, grant funds and businesses that share our vision and would be willing to work with us to deliver a sustainable future for Sustaining Dunbar.
Our StructureWe are a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. 351910, Scottish Charity No. SC040106. Membership is open to any local resident who is eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward of East Lothian. We have a Board of seven directors elected by the membership and can co-opt three more if special skills are required. The current Board has wide-ranging skills and experience with links to many other local organisations. Two directors are also elected members of East Lothian Council.
We are an enabling organisation. Our core services facilitate new initiatives and support local projects that are in line with our aims. Some of the projects we have initiated are now independent organisations but we remain closely linked and we continue to provide support as we can.
More information available fromSustaining Dunbar, 16 West Port, Dunbar, EH42 1BU
http://sustainingdunbar.org. Sign up online for regular updates.
“BeGreen... made us more aware as a family of what we could do to
cut energy use and cost.”
“I buy local whenever I can.”
“We are planning a regular produce market
in Dunbar.”
“It isn’t safe to cycle to Innerwick, there is nowhere
to cross the A1 safely.”
Investment Fund
Support services
Project incubator and networ
king
“Sustaining Dunbar is a marvelous example of creative local action to move to a low carbon community. I have seen how Sustaining Dunbar
is building many productive local relationships in pursuit of reducing emissions in areas such as food, transport and energy. It clearly has the drive to succeed in its vision for a low carbon Dunbar and I wish
everyone success for the future.”
Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Climate Change
“We are learning the skills to be more
resilient.”
“Dunbar’s community spirit helps people work
together.”
“We need a station at East Linton.”
“Now I am growing my own vegetables on my
new allotment.”
Sustaining Dunbar covers the Dunbar and East Linton ward of East Lothian and includes all villages and outlying areas in the Dunbar ‘school cluster’ area - including Oldhamstocks, Innerwick, Spott, West Barns, Stenton, Tyninghame and East Linton. The area contains approximately 5000 households with a population of about 12000.
The local population has grown by 17% in the last ten years, 25% are aged 0-15 years and 20% are 65 or over. 20% of those in employment commute out of East Lothian to work.
Sustaining Dunbar’s aim is to bring people together to plan and start creating a positive and sustainable future for Dunbar and District. We believe that the challenges we face are also an opportunity; that as we create a vibrant and resilient low-carbon future for ourselves, we will be creating opportunities for learning new skills, for strengthening local networks and relationships, for restoring and enhancing the local environment, for creating meaningful work and new employment opportunities ... and much more.
We aim to:
Be open and inclusive and to value everyone’s contribution.
Build on and strengthen existing community structures and networks.
Create new links and connections, to facilitate, to support and to enable.
Promote quality in everything we do.
Ensure that our work is environmentally and socially sustainable.
To understand and learn from the past as we create a vision of a sustainable future.
To use social enterprise to create employment whilst becoming � nancially self-supporting as an organisation.
We live in interesting times!
Change is inevitable. We will have to reduce our fossil fuel consumption by 50% over the next � fteen years both to meet Scottish Government Climate Change targets and because of the decline in world oil production. That means each of us reducing our consumption by about 5% a year, every year. As oil production declines, oil prices will increase and become more volatile and supplies will be subject to disruption. Major changes to the global economy will be inevitable. We must expect an increasing number of extreme local weather events due to increases in global average temperature.
Given these challenges, what will our locality look like in 2025? How can we come together to build a vibrant low-carbon economy for the Dunbar area, resilient enough to cope with the challenges that we will face? How will we ensure a reliable food supply? How will we provide the energy we need? How will we create suitable local workspace, employment and a workforce with the skills we are going to need? How will we maintain our health and wellbeing?
We are developing detailed action plans for creating a more localised, vibrant and resilient local economy. This will not only help us prepare for and cope with the major challenges ahead but will also create signi� cant opportunities - for meaningful work, to develop new skills, to strengthen community networks and to restore and enhance the local environment.
Our area
Our PartnersEast Lothian Council, East Lothian Community Planning Partnership, Carbon Neutral Stenton, Dunbar Arts Trust, Dunbar Community Woodland Group, Dunbar Community Development Company, Community Windpower Limited, Dunbar Harbour Trust, local community councils, local schools, Dunbar Trade’s Association and more….
Working in partnership is crucial to our success. We greatly value the relationships which we have developed to date and look forward to developing further partnerships in future.
Our FundersWe are very grateful for the support that we have received from:Scottish Climate Challenge Fund, Investing in Ideas, Awards for All, East Lothian Council, Community Energy Scotland and Dunbar Community Council.
Our challenge Sustaining Dunbar Principles
Printed by gmp print solutions using vegetable inks on FSC or PEFC approved paper and all of the em
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ill be o� set by the planting of trees in a local comm
unity woodland.
Final prospectus.indd 112/11/10 15:17:46
Working together for our futureSUSTAINING DUNBAR Our Needs
This is a crucial time in the development of this exciting initiative. We have hit the ground running and during our � rst couple of years have inspired, supported and developed many valuable and interesting initiatives. We have already had a marked impact on Dunbar and the surrounding area and have begun delivering projects that will meet the future needs of this community.
We aim to become a � nancially self-supporting organisation as soon as possible. We are working to develop a sustainable income from community owned wind turbines and pro� table trading subsidiaries. Our investment fund will become a key enabler of initiatives that are working to create a low-carbon, resilient future for this area in line with our ‘2025 - Local Resilience Action Plan’. However, in the medium term we need to fundraise. We have a funding gap for our core team for the next two years. We need funding partners, who share our vision and principles, to work with us to help secure this long-term income stream and to provide some temporary bridging � nance for our core support services.
We are very keen to hear from charitable trusts, grant funds and businesses that share our vision and would be willing to work with us to deliver a sustainable future for Sustaining Dunbar.
Our StructureWe are a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. 351910, Scottish Charity No. SC040106. Membership is open to any local resident who is eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward of East Lothian. We have a Board of seven directors elected by the membership and can co-opt three more if special skills are required. The current Board has wide-ranging skills and experience with links to many other local organisations. Two directors are also elected members of East Lothian Council.
We are an enabling organisation. Our core services facilitate new initiatives and support local projects that are in line with our aims. Some of the projects we have initiated are now independent organisations but we remain closely linked and we continue to provide support as we can.
More information available fromSustaining Dunbar, 16 West Port, Dunbar, EH42 1BU
http://sustainingdunbar.org. Sign up online for regular updates.
“BeGreen... made us more aware as a family of what we could do to
cut energy use and cost.”
“I buy local whenever I can.”
“We are planning a regular produce market
in Dunbar.”
“It isn’t safe to cycle to Innerwick, there is nowhere
to cross the A1 safely.”
Investment Fund
Support services
Project incubator and networ
king
“Sustaining Dunbar is a marvelous example of creative local action to move to a low carbon community. I have seen how Sustaining Dunbar
is building many productive local relationships in pursuit of reducing emissions in areas such as food, transport and energy. It clearly has the drive to succeed in its vision for a low carbon Dunbar and I wish
everyone success for the future.”
Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Climate Change
“We are learning the skills to be more
resilient.”
“Dunbar’s community spirit helps people work
together.”
“We need a station at East Linton.”
“Now I am growing my own vegetables on my
new allotment.”
Sustaining Dunbar covers the Dunbar and East Linton ward of East Lothian and includes all villages and outlying areas in the Dunbar ‘school cluster’ area - including Oldhamstocks, Innerwick, Spott, West Barns, Stenton, Tyninghame and East Linton. The area contains approximately 5000 households with a population of about 12000.
The local population has grown by 17% in the last ten years, 25% are aged 0-15 years and 20% are 65 or over. 20% of those in employment commute out of East Lothian to work.
Sustaining Dunbar’s aim is to bring people together to plan and start creating a positive and sustainable future for Dunbar and District. We believe that the challenges we face are also an opportunity; that as we create a vibrant and resilient low-carbon future for ourselves, we will be creating opportunities for learning new skills, for strengthening local networks and relationships, for restoring and enhancing the local environment, for creating meaningful work and new employment opportunities ... and much more.
We aim to:
Be open and inclusive and to value everyone’s contribution.
Build on and strengthen existing community structures and networks.
Create new links and connections, to facilitate, to support and to enable.
Promote quality in everything we do.
Ensure that our work is environmentally and socially sustainable.
To understand and learn from the past as we create a vision of a sustainable future.
To use social enterprise to create employment whilst becoming � nancially self-supporting as an organisation.
We live in interesting times!
Change is inevitable. We will have to reduce our fossil fuel consumption by 50% over the next � fteen years both to meet Scottish Government Climate Change targets and because of the decline in world oil production. That means each of us reducing our consumption by about 5% a year, every year. As oil production declines, oil prices will increase and become more volatile and supplies will be subject to disruption. Major changes to the global economy will be inevitable. We must expect an increasing number of extreme local weather events due to increases in global average temperature.
Given these challenges, what will our locality look like in 2025? How can we come together to build a vibrant low-carbon economy for the Dunbar area, resilient enough to cope with the challenges that we will face? How will we ensure a reliable food supply? How will we provide the energy we need? How will we create suitable local workspace, employment and a workforce with the skills we are going to need? How will we maintain our health and wellbeing?
We are developing detailed action plans for creating a more localised, vibrant and resilient local economy. This will not only help us prepare for and cope with the major challenges ahead but will also create signi� cant opportunities - for meaningful work, to develop new skills, to strengthen community networks and to restore and enhance the local environment.
Our area
Our PartnersEast Lothian Council, East Lothian Community Planning Partnership, Carbon Neutral Stenton, Dunbar Arts Trust, Dunbar Community Woodland Group, Dunbar Community Development Company, Community Windpower Limited, Dunbar Harbour Trust, local community councils, local schools, Dunbar Trade’s Association and more….
Working in partnership is crucial to our success. We greatly value the relationships which we have developed to date and look forward to developing further partnerships in future.
Our FundersWe are very grateful for the support that we have received from:Scottish Climate Challenge Fund, Investing in Ideas, Awards for All, East Lothian Council, Community Energy Scotland and Dunbar Community Council.
Our challenge Sustaining Dunbar Principles
Printed by gmp print solutions using vegetable inks on FSC or PEFC approved paper and all of the em
issions generated in the printing of this brochure w
ill be o� set by the planting of trees in a local comm
unity woodland.
Final prospectus.indd 112/11/10 15:17:46
Working together for our futureSUSTAINING DUNBAROur Needs
This is a crucial time in the development of this exciting initiative. We have hit the ground running and during our � rst couple of years have inspired, supported and developed many valuable and interesting initiatives. We have already had a marked impact on Dunbar and the surrounding area and have begun delivering projects that will meet the future needs of this community.
We aim to become a � nancially self-supporting organisation as soon as possible. We are working to develop a sustainable income from community owned wind turbines and pro� table trading subsidiaries. Our investment fund will become a key enabler of initiatives that are working to create a low-carbon, resilient future for this area in line with our ‘2025 - Local Resilience Action Plan’. However, in the medium term we need to fundraise. We have a funding gap for our core team for the next two years. We need funding partners, who share our vision and principles, to work with us to help secure this long-term income stream and to provide some temporary bridging � nance for our core support services.
We are very keen to hear from charitable trusts, grant funds and businesses that share our vision and would be willing to work with us to deliver a sustainable future for Sustaining Dunbar.
Our StructureWe are a Charitable Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in Scotland No. 351910, Scottish Charity No. SC040106. Membership is open to any local resident who is eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward of East Lothian. We have a Board of seven directors elected by the membership and can co-opt three more if special skills are required. The current Board has wide-ranging skills and experience with links to many other local organisations. Two directors are also elected members of East Lothian Council.
We are an enabling organisation. Our core services facilitate new initiatives and support local projects that are in line with our aims. Some of the projects we have initiated are now independent organisations but we remain closely linked and we continue to provide support as we can.
More information available fromSustaining Dunbar, 16 West Port, Dunbar, EH42 1BU
http://sustainingdunbar.org. Sign up online for regular updates.
“BeGreen... made us more aware as a family of what we could do to
cut energy use and cost.”
“I buy local whenever I can.”
“We are planning a regular produce market
in Dunbar.”
“It isn’t safe to cycle to Innerwick, there is nowhere
to cross the A1 safely.”
Investment Fund
Su
pport services
Proj
ect in
cubator and networking
“Sustaining Dunbar is a marvelous example of creative local action to move to a low carbon community. I have seen how Sustaining Dunbar
is building many productive local relationships in pursuit of reducing emissions in areas such as food, transport and energy. It clearly has the drive to succeed in its vision for a low carbon Dunbar and I wish
everyone success for the future.”
Stewart Stevenson, Minister for Climate Change
“We are learning the skills to be more
resilient.”
“Dunbar’s community spirit helps people work
together.”
“We need a station at East Linton.”
“Now I am growing my own vegetables on my
new allotment.”
Sustaining Dunbar covers the Dunbar and East Linton ward of East Lothian and includes all villages and outlying areas in the Dunbar ‘school cluster’ area - including Oldhamstocks, Innerwick, Spott, West Barns, Stenton, Tyninghame and East Linton. The area contains approximately 5000 households with a population of about 12000.
The local population has grown by 17% in the last ten years, 25% are aged 0-15 years and 20% are 65 or over. 20% of those in employment commute out of East Lothian to work.
Sustaining Dunbar’s aim is to bring people together to plan and start creating a positive and sustainable future for Dunbar and District. We believe that the challenges we face are also an opportunity; that as we create a vibrant and resilient low-carbon future for ourselves, we will be creating opportunities for learning new skills, for strengthening local networks and relationships, for restoring and enhancing the local environment, for creating meaningful work and new employment opportunities ... and much more.
We aim to:
Be open and inclusive and to value everyone’s contribution.
Build on and strengthen existing community structures and networks.
Create new links and connections, to facilitate, to support and to enable.
Promote quality in everything we do.
Ensure that our work is environmentally and socially sustainable.
To understand and learn from the past as we create a vision of a sustainable future.
To use social enterprise to create employment whilst becoming � nancially self-supporting as an organisation.
We live in interesting times!
Change is inevitable. We will have to reduce our fossil fuel consumption by 50% over the next � fteen years both to meet Scottish Government Climate Change targets and because of the decline in world oil production. That means each of us reducing our consumption by about 5% a year, every year. As oil production declines, oil prices will increase and become more volatile and supplies will be subject to disruption. Major changes to the global economy will be inevitable. We must expect an increasing number of extreme local weather events due to increases in global average temperature.
Given these challenges, what will our locality look like in 2025? How can we come together to build a vibrant low-carbon economy for the Dunbar area, resilient enough to cope with the challenges that we will face? How will we ensure a reliable food supply? How will we provide the energy we need? How will we create suitable local workspace, employment and a workforce with the skills we are going to need? How will we maintain our health and wellbeing?
We are developing detailed action plans for creating a more localised, vibrant and resilient local economy. This will not only help us prepare for and cope with the major challenges ahead but will also create signi� cant opportunities - for meaningful work, to develop new skills, to strengthen community networks and to restore and enhance the local environment.
Our area
Our PartnersEast Lothian Council, East Lothian Community Planning Partnership, Carbon Neutral Stenton, Dunbar Arts Trust, Dunbar Community Woodland Group, Dunbar Community Development Company, Community Windpower Limited, Dunbar Harbour Trust, local community councils, local schools, Dunbar Trade’s Association and more….
Working in partnership is crucial to our success. We greatly value the relationships which we have developed to date and look forward to developing further partnerships in future.
Our FundersWe are very grateful for the support that we have received from:Scottish Climate Challenge Fund, Investing in Ideas, Awards for All, East Lothian Council, Community Energy Scotland and Dunbar Community Council.
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Dunbar is a small coastal town with an ancient history. 30 miles east of Edinburgh, it occupies a prominent position on the east coast where the Firth of Forth becomes the North Sea. An iron-age promontory fort later became a strategically important castle in the mid-13th Century. In 1370 it became a Royal Burgh and a prosperous trading town and harbour. Cromwell routed the Scots at the second battle of Dunbar in 1650, leading to the overthrow of the monarchy and the occupation of Scotland.
It is bordered by the sea to the north and east, fertile farmland to the west and the Lammermuir Hills to the south. For many years Dunbar was an important agricultural centre and fishing port and later, in Victorian times, it became a popular seaside resort known for its bracing air and high sunshine record.The opening of Scotland’s only cement works in 1963 changed the economic focus of the town as seaside holidays and the fishing industry declined while the construction of Torness nuclear power station a few miles south of the town brought a temporary boom during the early 1980’s.
Dunbar has increasingly become a commuter town for Edinburgh with substantial new housing developments and increased property prices. The town centre has struggled to survive since the opening of an edge of town supermarket in 2007 but does still have a range of independent, family run shops, an expanding café culture, an historic streetscape and the five-star John Muir Birthplace museum.
Dunbar has a wealth of community organisations and activity. We want to ensure that the existing web of local networks are developed and strengthened as we come together to create a vibrant and resilient low-carbon future for the area, ready to face the local and global challenges of the 21st Century.
Working together for our futureSUSTAINING DUNBAR & DISTRICT
Our locality: A rich history, a vibrant future
‘Dunbar 2025 - Local Resilience Action Plan’ This is a fifteen-year community plan for building a vibrant, low-carbon, localised and resilient economy. It builds on extensive local consultation and research in which over 1500 local people were interviewed, throughout the ward.
This research has highlighted a strong desire to be able to source more locally produced food, live in more comfortable and energy efficient homes in neighbourhoods which are safe and attractive to walk and cycle around, for increased opportunities for local employment … and much more. The surveys have also highlighted the many barriers which currently prevent us all from doing many of these things - such as cost, time, availability, ownership and regulations. The plan will show how local groups can work together with East Lothian Council and the Scottish Government to deliver local energy, food, transport, health, education and enterprise solutions, much less dependent on fossil fuels. http://ourlocality.org/2025/
The Crunchy Carrot Buy-Outhttp://ourlocality.org/crunchybuyoutThis fruit, veg. and wholefood shop is a vital local asset, crucial to the future of Dunbar High Street. We are supporting a group planning a community buy-out to further develop this business as a social enterprise.
Dunbar Community Bakery Ltd. http://dunbarcommunitybakery.org.uk This community owned cooperative has more than 240 local members who have invested over £34,000 in share capital to lease a shop on Dunbar High Street. Nutritious bread products should be available early in 2011.
Sustaining Dunbar’s projects
Community Polytunnel A commercial polytunnel was jointly purchased by ten families and Innerwick Primary School. Learning and sharing skills together, they have now had two seasons of productive growing.
Dunbar Allotments Association http://ourlocality.org/dunbarallotmentsFounded at a well attended public meeting in January 2010, this association now manages existing allotments and is working with the Council and private landowners to create new ones. Forty new allotments have been created at Thistly Cross but over 65 people remain on the waiting list.
School Allotment and PolytunnelDunbar Grammar School pupils competed to pitch their community carbon cutting projects to a group of ‘Dragons’. A school allotment was one of the projects that
Nourishhttp://nourishscotland.ning.comScotland’s local food network was launched with the Declaration of Dunbar at the first Scottish Food Relocalisation conference hosted by us in Dunbar in October 2009.
Woodchip Heating We have developed a toolkit for communities to assess this technology and completed a feasibility study for district heating from a woodchip boiler for fifteen rural properties in a farm steading. We are also planning a fuel wood supply chain from our local community woodland, based on traditional coppicing.
Apple Days Hundreds of acres of local orchards were grubbed up after the war. Two very successful and well attended
Consultancy Services Sustaining Dunbar provides consultancy services, training in and facilitation of: Community Mapping, Action Planning, Action Research and Participatory Project Monitoring and Evaluation.
Our Localityhttp://ourlocality.orgA network of community websites located on our new web platform. We provide free hosting and support for groups to set up and manage their own websites and to network with other local groups. This builds resilience by developing and strengthening local links and networks.
Connecting Dunbarhttp://connectingdunbar.sustainingdunbar.orgWe are surveying current travel patterns and the barriers to greater use of walking, cycling and public transport. We are developing strategies to overcome these barriers, produce maps and timetables and work closely with employers, East Lothian Council, schools and transport providers.
Dunbar Community Energy Company Our trading subsidiary to install community scale, community owned renewable energy generation. The income generated will create a local investment fund to be used to implement the ‘2025 Local Resilience Action Plan’.
http://connectingdunbar.sustainingdunbar.org/car-clubSpare Wheels, Dunbar’s Car Club are finalising their business plan and hope to be up and running by the end of 2010, taking cars off the road by giving people the convenience of access to a car without the hassle of owning one.
BikefestA family friendly festival of cycling held as
part of Dunbar Civic Week.
Sustaining Dunbar’s projects
Woodchip Heating We have developed a toolkit for communities to assess this technology and completed a feasibility study for district heating from a woodchip boiler for fifteen rural properties in a farm steading. We are also planning a fuel wood supply chain from our local community woodland, based on traditional coppicing.
http://sustainingdunbar.org/begreen
A team of energy auditors provides free home energy advice from a drop in shop. They provide clear advice and follow up support as well as help applying for government grants. They also administer a local wind farm community benefit fund to provide top-up grants for home energy efficiency measures and installation of micro-renewables.
Working together
CarbonNeutralStenton
DunbarAllotmentsAssociation
DunbarCommunity
Bakery
Spare Wheels
Transport Club
DunbarCommunity
EnergyCompany
Energy
Transport
BeGreenEnergy Advice Service
Energy Audit Team
2025
Enterprise
Food
New Project
ConsultancyServices
New Project
Crunchy Carrot
OurLocality
Sustaining Dunbar’s projects
Gathering-In Community Festival with local produce market, talks, demonstrations and activities to celebrate and build on the wealth of community activity in the Dunbar area.
Carbon Neutral Stentonhttp://carbonneutralstenton.co.uk We are working with the village of Stenton which is developing an action plan to become carbon neutral. They are planning to install a community owned wind turbine to offset their electricity consumption and generate income to pay for their carbon cutting plans.
Reskilling/Arts We have worked closely with Dunbar Arts Trust and Dunbar Community Woodland Group to support skill sharing and arts/crafts activities.
