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Volunteering Opportunity
At Belhaven Hospital Community Garden Would you like to help clearing a garden site, for an exciting local training project? We can offer: fresh air exercise waterproofs, boots, gloves and tools an opportunity to meet new people learn new skills support an exciting new local project
The Ridge: Pilot Project gets initial funding
We have received funding towards our pilot project from East Lammermuir Community Council, Dunbar Community Council, Foundation Scotland, East Lothian Council’s Community Engagement Fund, the Lloyds TSB School for Social Entrepreneurs, and the National Lottery’s Investing in Ideas fund. We are really grateful for this early support that will now allow us to develop our pilot [...]
Notice of Annual General Meeting
NOTICE is hereby given that the 2012 Annual General Meeting of Dunbar Community Bakery Limited will be held at The Rossburgh Hotel, Queens Road, Dunbar on 31 May 2012 at 7.00pm to transact the following business of the Co-operative: 1. To receive the Accounts and Balance Sheet of the Co-operative and the Reports of the [...]
Committee members wanted
COMMITTEE MEMBERS WANTED FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISE ‘The Bakery’ is an innovative and high profile social enterprise and co-operative based in Dunbar, East Lothian. Additional volunteer committee members are required who are strategic thinkers and have skills and experience in the following areas: • Catering, retail or commercial baking • Accountancy and finance • Marketing and [...]
CAKES GALORE AS PATISSIER OF THE YEAR TAKES CHARGE!
Scrumptious cakes and traditional artisan bread are flying off the shelves at The Bakery in Dunbar as Ross Baxter, one of Scotland’s brightest young talents in baking, steps in to take charge.
Changed opening hours
We have tried opening late on Tuesdays and Thursdays for the last few months – mainly in reponse to requests on this site. Unfortunately there seems to be very little demand. We have had an empty shop after 4.30pm – at most selling one or two loaves of bread. We have therefore decided that from [...]
Looking for other funding
Unfortunately our application to the Lottery to buy the shop was not successful and we now need to look at alternatives as we are as keen as ever to keep the Crunchy Carrot in our community. Indeed over the months that we have been working together it has become increasingly clear that we need much [...]
Business Plans for the Crunchy Carrot take shape
We are working to produce a business plan to show how we would change and improve the Crunchy Carrot and how we would like to develop additional community services. We have a draft business plan that we are happy to share if you are interested – just drop an email to janet(AT)ednet.co.uk and we will send [...]
Application for lottery funding
The group made an application for funding to the BIG Lottery Growing Community Assets fund – we were asking for our application to be progressed to the next stage and for some additional funding to be released to pay for professional fees – especially for architect support to develop plans to change and fit out [...]
Crunch time for community shop bid
See an article from this week’s East Lothian Courier by Bryan Copland about the future of the Crunchy Carrot.
