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Who Do You Think You Are?
June 8, 2023 by George
On Thursday 15 June 2023, the BBC programme “Who Do You Think You Are?” features Bear Grylls, the adventurer, tv presenter and […]
Top Job News
May 31, 2023 by theridge
Managing Director for The Ridge Foundations 31 May 2023 As the scale and scope of its work expands, The Ridge is looking […]
Go Deep Taster Workshop
May 30, 2023 by philip
A Go Deep Taster Session: Tuesday 27th June, 7.30-9pm, Our Lady of the Waves Church Hall, Dunbar Just come for the workshop […]
Civic Week Cinema – The Seeds of Vandana Shiva
May 30, 2023 by philip
Documentary film about the remarkable story of Dr Vandana Shiva. When you control seed. You control life on earth. Tuesday, 13th June […]
Green Drinks
May 30, 2023 by philip
Sustaining Dunbar, Summer Social Drinks. Friday 2nd June, 8pm onwards at Station Yard Micropub. Come along to meet others with an interest […]
DDHS activities 2022-2023
May 22, 2023 by jherring
April 2023 This month, we are going to look at some slides from Pauline’s Smeed’s presentation at the AGM, in which she […]

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We want local democracy to flourish and provide people a platform for any cause, however small

Free Webspace and Free Support (since 2010)
by @ourlocality
April 4, 2023
Since 2010 we have provided free webspace and free support for all kinds of locally based projects. From 2018 we introduced paid plans. Free support continued on the forum. As of 4 April 2023 we are withdrawing the forum entirely, as no one has asked a question for 18 months. OurLocality remains open to anyone,…
New Year’s Resolution: Delete everything and start again
by whatif
December 31, 2022
So, you’ve created your new site OR you want to start over but from a clean slate … Here’s how: Delete pages and posts selectively If you have spun up a new website as a test and want to remove the placeholder content, this is what to do:- Do not delete the content on an…
What have we done in ourlocality?
by @ourlocality
December 27, 2022
Over the last 16 months – if memory serves me well: 2022 Achievements 1000s of updates Every day quietly someone is updating their website, perhaps adding the minutes of boring meetings that they have diligently compiled and that until now you thought no one ever read – well you are wrong, it seems they do!…