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NEARLY £35,000 has been given to a group helping ensure historic parts of Dunbar will live into the future. The Ridge Foundations CIC was awarded £34,000 by Historic Environment Scotland (HES), with the money going to a project to deliver traditional skills training and to help with repairs to historic buildings in Dunbar Conservation Area. The money will be used to train two modern apprentices and two pre-apprenticeship trainees in traditional skills, specifically on derelict historic buildings and walls. In addition, the training programme will deliver training to 30 local school pupils across East Lothian to provide them with a National 4 Construction Craft Technician SQA qualification.
THE efforts of volunteers who stepped up to help people throughout Dunbar during the first coronavirus lockdown have been recognised. More than 200 volunteers came forward to help vulnerable members of the community last March when lockdown restrictions were first put in place. Now, Dunbar Community Council has shown that those efforts did not go unrecognised with a special award. Stephen Bunyan, former chairman of the group, highlighted the hard work of the volunteers in presenting the Stephen Bunyan Award. He said: “This year, the Stephen Bunyan Trophy goes to the whole Dunbar and district community in recognition of their response to the Covid-19 pandemic.