With background information about Sustaining Dunbar and the plans and current activities of our sub-groups plus a rolling selection of films, a chance to calculate your carbon footprint and the opportunity to enter our prize draw quiz.

Family Bike Parade along High Street 3.30pm

Fun Races, Folding Bike race, Obstacle Course
Pedal Powered Scalextric
Fancy Dress Bike - bring your bike in “Disguise”
Trials riding in Lochend Woods
Treasure Hunt round the woods
“DR BIKE” Free Bike Check Puncture Repair Workshop
Beat the Bobby with PC Kevin Hughes
Information Stall
Unusual Bikes, electric assist and trailers.

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Jo MacNamara is organising a beach clean party at the East Beach on Saturday afternoon from 1 till 4. She says: “We have a team of environmental volunteers coming to do some beach art and plaster casting with us and if the sun shines we’ll have a bit of a bar b que.”

There are still two places on this Transition Training course, run by Naresh Giangrande and Sophy Banks. Cost £60/90/120. If you’re interested, please email Eva Schonveld.

They say: “Training for Transition is a 2-day “fundamentals” course for those wishing to know how to set up, run, and maintain a successful transition initiative. It is packed with imaginative and inspiring way to delve into both the theory and practice of Transition.”

Guest speakers include Alan Blackie, Chief Executive of East Lothian Council, Eurig Scandrett from Queen Margaret University and  Philip Revell from Sustaining Dunbar. Registration starts at 9.15am and will end with a buffet lunch at 1pm.

There will be a Market Place and two workshops looking at:
• The key environmental sustainability challenges facing East Lothian and how these affect local residents;
• An East Lothian Environment Forum: how should it be structured and what could a forum achieve.”

If you would like to come along to this free event please book a place by emailing jleslie@eastlothian.gov.uk or call 01620 827829.
Free crèche facilities are available.

See the poster here

Climate Change Condensed
Tuesday 10th June, 18:30-21:30
COIN has created a fantastic new 3-hour ‘all-you-need-to-know’ course which uses a carefully-concocted recipe of expert knowledge (we bring the experts to you on film), group discussion and pair work.

Speaker Training
Tuesday 1st July, 17:30-21:30
COIN’s intensive 4-hour training course gives participants the text, information, skills and confidence to prepare and deliver a persuasive half hour talk on climate change.
Tickets: £12 for individuals; £24 for charities and Local Authorities; £49 for business

Venue: Tepooka, 10 Lady Lawson Street, Edinburgh, EH3 9DS

These conferences are for everybody who wants to gain confidence about communicating climate change at work, in their organisations, in the local community, and among friends and family.

To book, or if you need further info, please contact Mim at COIN by email mim@coinet.org.uk or on 01865 403330. See the poster here.

Venue: Bridgend Farm, 41 Old Dalkeith Road, Edinburgh
Time: 31st May 9.45 refreshments for 10 o’clock start, finish at 4pm
Cost: £40 (concessions available)
Booking: Ricarda Kuehn on 0131 258 4223

The programme for the evening is :

• Introduction
• Film - The Power of Community
• Explanation about how Sustaining Dunbar will be structured
• Information about the sub-groups, their existing activities and plans
• AGM (to set up the ‘co-ordination group’)