Antique Roadshow
Coffee, tea and cakes will be available during the event.
Come along for tea, coffee and cakes and discover if your ‘valuables’ are valuable.
Bring along items of jewellery, silver, artwork, antiques for free valuation by experts from Thomson Roddick (Dumfries).
Valuation will be free of charge but limited to 2 items per person.
Thursday 23rd May at 2.30 p.m. at New Galloway Town Hall
Entrance by ticket only or at door if tickets remain. Price £10
Available from:
New Galloway community shop
or
Click here to book
An invitation to join LING volunteers for a Bluebell Walk Sunday 28th April 10:30 am – 12 noon.
Meet at New Galloway Golf Club for an amble around the surrounding woods, enjoying fresh air, good company, and bluebells in bloom. Light refreshments available afterwards in the Town Hall.
Free event, no requirement to book – just turn up!
Any queries? Contact info@ling.org.uk
Join us for a fabulous vintage afternoon tea in the beautiful New Galloway Town Hall on Sunday 10th March at 3.00 – 4.30 pm. Enjoy an afternoon tea created by the amazing Kitty’s, whilst listening to The Little Vintage Tea Band in the background. Click here to book.
FABULOUSLY FULLY BOOKED! - Learn To Be Self-Sufficient – A Sharing Skills Event – FABULOUSLY FULLY BOOKED!
A day of collaboratively working together, learning and sharing new skills and contributing to long-term positive changes within your lives and the climate.
Workshops include:
- Ferment your own food – learn to preserve surplus food, reduce food waste and keep your cupboards stocked up. Learn about fermentation processes and how they can improve your wellbeing.
- Make your own herbal remedies – learn about the healing power of herbs, spices and vegetables. Make your own fire cider and herbal tinctures.
- Sew/Knit your own clothes/gifts – learn to mend your own clothes, knit your own socks, blankets etc.
- Make your own soap – learn how to make soap at home. Freshly cooked, locally grown lunch will be offered with recipes to take home. Click here to book
At the end of the day you will go home with what you created during the day, a pack of recipes about how to carry on at home and share with others. All food items will be sourced locally in collaboration with our local community shop and the Galloway Food Hub.
It is important to us to shorten food miles, support local businesses and encourage others to do the same.
The day is subsidised via funding from the D&G Climate Hub from the Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere and brought to you by the Hub at the Town Hall – A place for the whole family! Paving the way for a more resilient and sustainable community.
Event Details
Starts at 9:30AM Click here to book
Location
New Galloway Town Hall, New Galloway, DG7 3RL
Regular Events Diary
LING Lunches. Every Tuesday, here in the Town Hall – lunches from 12:30 – 2pm Soup and roll £3.50, pudding £3, or £6 for all combined.
Sports evenings with indoor bowling and table tennis, Tues 7-pm, £4. Drop in or contact Ray Bridgeman 01644 420438 currently taking place at the Scouts’ Hut behind the Catstrand.
Zumba, normally Wed evenings, £5 – contact samantha.rushton@hotmail.co.uk (booking essential)
Martial Arts for Children, Thurs, 7.30 – 9pm. £6 contact Nancy kmabrian@gmail.com or 07798 725813
Gentle Yoga, currently moved to Balmaclellan – contact kathyr64@hotmail.co.uk
A Time and a Place is for all ages and we do hope you can join us between 2:30pm – 4:30pm on Saturday 21st October as the doors of New Galloway Town Hall open properly, and for good. Tickets are free but essential for admittance on the day. They can be booked if you click here.
If you are unable to book online, please contact us on 07749 249781. Leave a message with your name and how many tickets you want and we’ll get back to you.
If anyone would like to add anything to the time capsule on the 21st of October contact Barbara at 07724878796.
Look In, Linger and Lunch
On Tuesdays, LING Lunches are available here at the town hall at £6 a head for a choice of two delicious soups, breads or scones and a choice of sweets or cakes, provided by JAX of ‘Fabby Cakes’. Coffee and biscuits are also an option, as an alternative to a lunch, at £1.50 a head. Since opening in May 2016, this has been a great success. Some people are regulars; others are just passing through and pop in to have a chat over lunch. It’s open to anyone to drop in, no need to book. All ages are welcome (there’s even a high chair available) whether locals or visitors to the area. A friendly welcome awaits and a chance to chat with old friends or meet new people.
The times fit in well with the buses to and from Carsphairn, Dalry and Balmaclellan, but if other transport is needed, please contact us.
Sports Night
On Tuesday evenings, carpet bowls take place in the lower hall and two smart new table tennis tables are available in the upper hall. Entry is £4 a head. The bowls were kindly donated by a Kilmarnock church group which no longer needed them and a new bowling mat has recently been bought.
The first successful Sports Night season culminated in Tom Carlyle being presented with a silver cup as winner of the Town Hall Indoor Bowling League! The cup was last used by the New Galloway Bowling Club many moons ago.
This is all great fun and very informal – a chance to meet up for a chat and some gentle activity. If a Tuesday evening doesn’t suit you, but you’d like to give it a try, just get a small group together and contact us to book the hall.
Previous Events
‘The New Galloway Story’ Exhibition
This exhibition opened for the first time at weekends from mid-July until the end of September in 2016 and welcomed visitors from near and far. It provides fascinating information, including photographs, videos and other mementos, about New Galloway’s history and the place of the Town Hall within that history. It’s open again this summer, again at weekends, except for the weekend of the Alternative Games in New Galloway (5th and 6th August), when LING will have a stall there.
The large mural, a painting of the nearby Kenmure Castle estate called ‘The Town Park’, which was gifted to the Town Hall by Faed Junior, is on display in the hall while the exhibition is open. At other times it is protected and hidden from view behind large wooden shutters. You would never know it was there!
Antiques Roadshow
An Antiques Roadshow was held very successfully last Autumn and we anticipate another in the Autumn of 2018.
Marie Curie Fundraiser
The hall was beautifully decorated for this event in 2017 and wonderful selections of sandwiches and cakes were available.
Christmas Celebration Concert
On 4th December 2017 a celebratory concert took place attended by at least 150 people. (There were 150 seats and some people were standing!) The event had been planned by a group representing all the different organisations, groups and businesses in New Galloway as a mark of the great strides that had been made in the course of the past year. Children from Kells school sang for us and the cubs and beavers group also performed. The Catstrand children’s drama group gave us a preview of their Pantomime and the adult singers also did us proud.
It was a wonderful evening and the weather held to allow everyone to make their way down the High Street, led by a piper, to The Smithy, where mulled wine was available for us all to enjoy as we watched the switching on of Christmas lights. So many people helped to make this a success. We hoped that the event might be repeated in some form the next year and it was indeed. And the following year too!!
The same planning group have since formed themselves as a Celebratory Events Committee operating as a sub-committee of LING. They ran a successful Picnic in the Park, to be repeated again this year, and they plough their funds raised back into the community.
Love Food: Hate Waste
A very enjoyable workshop was run for us in the spring of 2018 by Zero Waste Scotland and we hope to repeat this later in the year.
New Galloway Town Hall 