Sustaining Dunbar is holding its first AGM on Monday 22nd March at 7.30pm in the back room of The Rocks Hotel in Marine Road, Dunbar (EH42 1AR).The evening will mainly be a social event, a chance to meet other Sustaining Dunbar members and the staff of our funded projects, to find out more about what is going on with allotments, the bakery, BeGreen, 2025, community owned renewables, sustainable transport etc. and to share your ideas as to how we can make the Dunbar area into a vibrant and sustainable re-localised community.

The formal part of the meeting will be to approve our accounts and annual report 2009, elect directors to the Board and to approve a change to our constitution to do away with a membership subscription.

Our current board members are: Mark Huxham, Jo McNamara, Paul McLennan, Barbara Richerby, Jacquie Bell, Liz McLean and Sarah Wall. Two of these directors (to be decided) will be stepping down and seeking re-election, as required by our constitution. Any member is free to put themselves forward to be a director -so please don’t be shy if you would like to stand. We can have up to seven elected directors, and the board can then co-opt up to three more if they wish.

If you are not officially a member, please do sign up. Membership is open to anyone eligible to vote in the Dunbar and East Linton Ward and, unless members vote otherwise at the AGM, will be free from now on.  To join, fill in the membership form.

Dunbar and District = Ward 7

You are invited to an open meeting in East Linton Primary School Hall March 23rd. Come along and have your say about what you want your area to be like by 2025! All ages welcome.
The 2025 Mapping and Action Planning Project Team is out and about gathering your views and ideas regarding: home energy efficiency, accessibility to local food, public transport and employment. The meeting will start at 7:30. We will feedback the local survey  findings so far and enable you to record your views and ideas for making your area an even better place to live in by 2025. For more information please contact Susan Guy 01368 866 920

Want to reduce your carbon footprint and save money? Tripshare East Lothian is a free journey matching service to put you in touch with people going the same way as you. You can register regular commutes to work or occasional trips away, and the website allows you to search for other members who are doing similar journeys at similar times. There are already 60 members in Dunbar and 530 in East Lothian, but the more people that join in, the more chance you have of finding a matching journey. So tell your friends!

TripshareEastLothian is part of the UK’s National liftshare network.

Get cozy for Earth Hour 2010!

Last year 380 Dunbar and District families turned off their lights for Earth Hour. This year let’s beat our record! At 8:30pm Saturday 27th March turn off your lights for an hour.

Until then – keep East Lothian in first place and sign up to Earth hour here! Right now we are the lead County in Scotland!

After Earth Hour – use the map below to map where you live and tell us what you did without electricity for an hour!
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The discussion will be followed at 8.30pm by a meeting of Sustaining Dunbar’s Transport Group which has been working for two years to improve walking, cycling and public transport in and around Dunbar.