Greener Duns Annual Report 25/26 OSCR
Greener Duns have continued to work under 3 specific aims; to create and promote opportunities for reducing, reusing and recycling in the community; to support and promote opportunities for active travel and to raise awareness and engage with climate change issues and the steps we can all take to address them.
Our Repair Café initiative celebrated its first birthday in April 26. Numbers of people seeking repairs for their household items have remained steady or increased each month. We continue to collect blister packs, milk bottle tops and broken unused spectacles for recycling. We are hoping to add IT equipment to the list next year.
We have shown 2 films over the winter.’ Leaving it better’ in November and The National People’s Emergency in April which was extremely well attended thanks to the particular efforts of one of our Trustees. Ray Georgeson from Zero Waste Scotland gave a talk on the history of recycling in February. Berwickshire Adventure Film Festival invited Greener Duns to be part of their scheduling in March showing 6 short films with an Environmental Focus.
A Greener Duns page now forms part of a quarterly Duns Newsletter which goes out to every household in the town.
The group have continued networking with Duns Primary School and hope to have new links with Berwickshire high School this year. We have visited Greener Stow and took part in Climate Café in Melrose.
We continue to support the Border’s Greenway project and to continue to promote new walking/cycling routes in and around Duns.
ECrawford (Chair Greener Duns)