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Have your say about the past, present and future!

Have your say regarding:
Energy Efficiency Survey
Local Food Survey
These survey forms coming soon…
Local Water; Local Transportation; Local Enterprise and Employment; Local Education; and, Local Health.

Have your say about the past, present and future!

The 2025 M.A.P Project team are making maps to record the past, the present and your ideas about the future regarding access to local food, public transport and paths, local employment, home energy efficiency etc.  So far 600+ local people through out ward 7 have shared and mapped their knowledge and ideas. The summary reports are available on this website by area.

Examples of our mapping projects: Food Mapping

We did a drop in food mapping event in an unused shop on the High Street over two weeks leading up to the local food gathering. At the drop in people could map their knowledge about where we got our food in the past (i.e through the Dig for Victory years), where they get their food now and where they would like to get their food in the future. We used a separate map for each topic (past, present, future). We used post-it notes to enable people to record and map their knowledge and ideas.

We also used an H-Form which is a tool designed to enable people to self evaluate “How much of the food you eat is locally produced?”. With this tool they could give themselves a score between 0 (no local food eaten) and 10 (all food eaten is local). More important than these scores are people’s reasons for their scores which they record themselves onto post-its. We asked them to also record their ideas for making it easier for them to access locally produced/ grown food and to map where (onto the future maps).

We also mapped local knowledge and ideas regarding Public Transport, Paths, Local employment, home energy efficiency and skills

Because we know that only a small proportion of the population dropped into the Map Hub (we tracked by age and gender and area) or come to meetings – we recruited local people from each of the settlement areas in our Ward and trained them in Community Mapping techniques to carry out a wide spread survey (as above but getting out to where people live/ work/ schools etc). 20+ local facilitators where trained by me in mapping and h-forms and they where paid to carry out the survey work in and around where they live.

At this point 600+ people of all ages and areas have had their say.

We are now looking to study the 1940s Farm Survey Maps at the National Archives to map more about the past. We are also getting out and about doing farm visits and mapping past, present and future. We will be interviewing more local key elderly people to continue to map details about the past.

Once we have consolidated all the map survey outputs then we will continue to publish them on the website. You can find summary reports for all areas now e.g. http://www.sustainingdunbar.org/2010/03/26/dunbar-central-2025-m-a-p-project/ If you go under categories you will be able to see all reports by area as they are done.

If you are interested in  training in Community Mapping and Action Planning and we could come your way to train up local people to do as we are doing. Call Susan Guy to discuss 01368 866 920.

We currently have 26 volunteer facilitators knocking on doors around the Dunbar and East Linton area, carrying out a survey regarding local: food, energy, transport and employment -potentially interviewing up to 1000 local people. You are invited to their report back session at 3pm on Thursday 28th January at Hallhill HealthyLiving Centre. All Welcome.

We will be holding further report back sessions as part of a series of ‘2025 roadshows’ around the area in the coming weeks -watch this space.

Open Meeting

All ages welcome
24^th November at 7pm in  East Linton Community Hall

The purpose of this meeting is to bring people together to talk about the land, to map and to identify:

• what it is being used for now, to do what by who and when;
• what people would like to use it for, when;
• what needs to be done to move forward; and,
• people who would like to be involved to take things forward.

For more information please contact: Jill Wareham
Head Teacher
East Linton Primary School
School Road
East Linton EH40 3AJ
01620 860216
http://edubuzz.org/blogs/eastlinton/

Dunbar District Food Map: Past

We are mapping where we got our food in the past.
Past Food Map

Dunbar and District Food Map: Past

Where did we get our food in the past (e.g. during World War II and the Dig for Victory Campaign)?

Please add your knowledge about our past to these maps (if you have a Google account) or read the rest of this post and leave a reply in the text box.

Dunbar District Food Map: Past

Please use Map key

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	Farms?
	Old Herring Routes?
	Fish?
	Sugar Beets? We could not get imported sugar.
	Old Apple Orchards?
	Canning? Every time something came into season there would be a canning day
	Dairy Farms?