{"id":17,"date":"2011-03-07T13:43:58","date_gmt":"2011-03-07T13:43:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbar2025\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2011-03-30T09:55:47","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T09:55:47","slug":"project-legacy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ourlocality.org\/dunbar2025\/project-legacy\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We are making it easier for people to reconnect with their locality<\/p><\/div>\n

The main legacy from this project is the \u2018Local Resilience Action Plan\u2019 which will provide a guiding framework for the work of Sustaining Dunbar in the years to come. Sustaining Dunbar\u2019s position as a democratically run community organization has been consolidated, with good governance and administrative systems in place and with significantly raised local credibility and profile. Our capacity to initiate and support new and emerging projects and social enterprises has been enhanced.<\/p>\n

Many local partnerships and links have been made with other organizations locally as well as with East Lothian Council and the East Lothian Community Planning Partnership. A significant outcome of this has been the development and adoption of the East Lothian Environment Strategy, which is now starting to inform enabling policies within East Lothian Council and other community planning partners.<\/p>\n

Whilst hard to quantify, we are confident that we have significantly raised local awareness and engagement with issues around climate change, resource depletion and building a resilient local economy. We have created collections of relevant books and films in Dunbar and East Linton libraries. A number of new practical initiatives are now in place and becoming established; some as independent but linked organizations \u2013such as Dunbar Allotments Association, Dunbar Community Bakery, the local market group, Fairtrade Dunbar and Carbon Neutral Stenton.
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\nLocal capacity has been enhanced with the training of twenty six local facilitators. \u00a0We have provided facilitation services and training for local groups to run creative meetings and workshops, and have made a start at developing a new local culture for how to hold constructive meetings.\u00a0We expect that these skills will be valuable in the implementation of elements of the Local Resilience Action Plan in the years to come.\u00a0An action plan for regenerating Dunbar Town Centre is now being implemented in partnership with Dunbar Trades Association and other groups. We now have capacity to support other Transition initiatives with advice, consultancy and services and to date we have worked with Transition North Berwick and Transition South Edinburgh.<\/p>\n

Our Community Mapping facility is now available for use by any local organization requiring to access, print or create maps to assist and enable their work while the ‘ourlocality’ web platform is creating new opportunities for local groups, organisations, individuals and businesses to communicate effectively and form local networks.<\/p>\n

Our energy auditors have developed extensive expertise and have developed a reputation for high quality expert, impartial and personalised home energy advice across the community. We have achieved a good uptake of home energy advice with an average energy saving of 18% by those audited.\u00a0 Barriers to greater savings have been identified and strategies to overcome these have been developed and are about to be implemented, including a locally based revolving loan fund to finance energy efficiency measures. \u00a0We have also trained 15 neighbourhood energy advisors to carry out basic home energy awareness interviews with householders.
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\nIn the coming year, we will be starting to implement our Local Resilience Action Plan. Specifically the next year\u2019s work will be focussed at two different levels.<\/p>\n

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  1. We will work intensively to initiate, facilitate and support the development of very local activity at the household, street, village, school and youth group level. This will include:<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Neighbourhood Transition Groups \u2013<\/strong>building on our neighbourhood energy assistant project, this will bring small groups of residents together to develop household and street scale action plans along the \u2018Transition Streets\u2019 model.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n

    We will work through local facilitators, existing residents associations and other networks to set up and support twenty \u2018transition streets\u2019 groups across the Dunbar and East Linton ward. We will provide practical resource materials and support, including:<\/p>\n