Regular Events Diary (Hoping to resume as soon as possible.)

LING Lunches. Every Tuesday, currently moved to Kitty’s just across the road – lunches from 12:30 – 2pm Soup and roll £3-50, pudding £3, or £6 for all combined.

Thursday’s Pop-Up-Place – currently in Kitty’s 2.30 to 5.30. Pop in for a cup of tea, some cake and friendly chat.

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.

Tai Chi, normally on Wed 10:30 – 11:30am, includes coffee and biscuits. £2 Contact Julie gentletaichigroup@gmail.com

Zumba, normally Wed evenings, £5 – contact samantha.rushton@hotmail.co.uk (booking essential)

Martial Arts for Children, normally Thurs 5.30pm for little ones, and 7 – 9pm contact brianhilton237@gmail.com

Gentle Yoga, currently moved to Balmaclellan – contact kathyr64@hotmail.co.uk

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Look In, Linger and Lunch

On Tuesdays, LING Lunches are available at Kitty’s, just across the road from 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.