Join to investigate and develop fresh ideas, help make the local economy more sustainable and develop projects which progress the aims of Sustaining Dunbar to develop a more resilient, self sufficient, low carbon community and economy.

We are currently researching some ideas and hope to gather like minded individuals together to take actions which will benefit current and future businesses in the area. We plan to form more links with other local organisations and to form a network to enable communication and sharing between the various enterprise initiatives already started or being planned by Sustaining Dunbar’s working groups.

Some ideas currently under investigation are:

• The prospect of starting a market in Dunbar town centre to provide local shops and small craft and food producers with a regular novel event in which to make sales, attract more visitors to the high street and provide a stepping stone for the growth of smaller ventures. (What do you think?)
• Create stronger links with the Dunbar Harbour Trust to support their important developments of the harbour area and make suggestions for possible uses of the Battery and Lamer Island after its upcoming renovation. (Any ideas/suggestions)
• To possibly develop business incubation units in Dunbar to help increased SME formation, growth, survival and create more local jobs in the future. (What do you think? where could this be located? Do you have any spare office space?)

Please feel free to get in touch. Join Sustaining Dunbar or E-mail me at sdenterprisegroup@gmail.com and contribute what ever you can. Tell us what you think of these initial ideas and/or get involved and bring your own insights and ideas.

Russell C.

We will be sharing our researches and continuing our discussions about local currencies and financial structures

All welcome to come and join the discussion, see moneylinks for some relevant links of interest.

We will be showing the film ‘Money as Debt’  (http://moneyasdebt.net/) , discussing the role that our current money system plays in trapping us in an unsustainable economic system, the potential for launching a Dunbar Pound and for setting up  a local bank/credit union. All Welcome.

PICNIC ‘09: Alternative Currency in Practice with Christian Nold & Oliver Dudok van Heel from PICNICCrossmediaweek on Vimeo.