BeLocalScotland

14/10/2024

🍳 Ready Steady Cook is Coming to Seaboard Hall! 🍳

Join us for an exciting evening with our local chefs Laura Dundas and Ewan Chisholm, as they go head-to-head with contestants Rachael Smith and Liam Hailes in a culinary showdown!

The evening kicks off with a cookery demo followed by the main event. Plus, there’s a licensed bar for you to enjoy while watching the action unfold! 🍷🍴

🗓️ Date: Saturday, 23rd November
⏰ Time: 7:00 PM
🎟️ Tickets: £12.50. Available at Eventbrite & the Seaboard Centre office.

Don’t miss out on this fun night! Grab your t

This is a fundraising event.

14/10/2024

"We end our chat with typical Highland hospitality, with both Sadler and Halliday insisting I must visit again. Maybe I should pop up at Hogmanay. Grantown-on-Spey still has a traditional Hogmanay with dancing in the main square with a band playing from the back of a lorry, with the streets closed. The big night culminates with a firework display and the population doubles. There is certainly plenty of life in the old capital of Strathspey, which, with the help of the tireless Grantown Society, is a community firmly putting itself back on the map." Robin McKelvie, award-winning travel writer.

Read more of Robin's Belocal Blog featuring the Grantown Society by visiting https://www.belocal.scot/stories/the-grantown-society/













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06/09/2024

September is the month when you can indulge your curiosity and explore hundreds of buildings, historic sites, and unique spaces across Scotland that open their doors to the public for free!

Many of these buildings are cared for by community organisations that tirelessly work to preserve our heritage.
Please support them whenever you can!

Discover what’s open near you on the Doors Open Days website below-

Doors Open Days is Scotland’s largest free festival that celebrates places and stories, new and old.

05/09/2024

Be Local with Glentrool Hive

The countdown is on!

Only 3 days left now until our first Glentrool Forest Festival!

A couple of workshops are fully booked now, please remember to book your place to avoid disappointment by following the below link:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/glentrool-bargrennan-community-trust-90094023243

05/09/2024

Be like a temporary local when visiting Scotland...

31/08/2024

Be Local Scotland supports the campaign because stronger communities make better places to live, work and visit!

We have three tips on how you can support the campaign and community tourism:

Communities across Scotland own and operate a range of tourism services. By making a conscious choice on your travels you can make a difference.

31/08/2024

stop the bus I need a …. Always support toilets! Give generously as you never know when you might need to go. More and more communities are providing services which are vital for all! Thank you.

OUR COMMUNITY OWNED TOILETS ARE OPEN

We received an email from Building Standards this afternoon giving us temporary approval to open the toilets.
There is still an issue with the shower room so this will remain locked, but we are working to resolve it as soon as possible

26/08/2024

17/08/2024

"I’m always conscious as a travel writer of avoiding dubbing communities ‘remote’, but in the case of the Ettrick and Yarrow valleys, the locals I spoke to said they consider themselves remote" Discover the hidden beauty of Ettrick and Yarrow—where nature and community thrive- with award-winning travel writer Robin McKelvie's latest Be Local Blog.



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Ettrick and Yarrow Community would like to share their truly wild location with temporary locals.

11/08/2024

Good advice here for temporary locals.

Whether you're island hopping or touring the this summer, know how to navigate Scotland's country roads safely 🚗

🌧️ It's a speed limit, not a target. Drive to the road conditions.
❗ Leave plenty of time to react. Hazards can be just around the bend.
🚙 Always wear your seatbelt.
🗺️ Slow down on bends.
📵 Put away distractions like phones and sat-navs.
🐑 Be aware of livestock on the road.
⚠️ Look out for road warning for blind summits, hidden dips and farm traffic.
🚫 Use passing places efficiently, and never park in them.
⬅️ For those visiting Scotland, remember to drive on the left.

12/07/2024

Community tourism does music and dance! 🪩

Not-for-profit traditional music festival in Newton Stewart & Minnigaff the Newton Stewart & Minnigaff Traditional Music & Dance Festival features traditional music concerts, workshops, tune sessions, song sessions, pipe band, tune and song writing competitions; to encourage, develop, support and pr...

11/07/2024

Today marks the 750th anniversary of Robert the Bruce's Birth. This weekend (13 July 2024), why not celebrate the Scottish Outlaw King's birthday at Glebe Park, Maybole for FREE!

Read all about the community celebrating Bruce's anniversary and putting the warrior king on the map in Robin McKelvie's latest Be Local Blog : https://www.belocal.scot/stories/bruce-750/





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https://www.belocal.scot/stories/bruce-750/

03/07/2024

This weekend be a temporary local with The Cateran Ecomuseum

Join us for a packed programme of FREE family-friendly cultural heritage activities in our pop-up Iron Age Village. There will be demonstrations of traditional skills, foraging walks,

29/06/2024

Community run Seaboard Centre makes summer easier for parents!

🧜🏼‍♀️🥪 KIDS LUNCH BOXES 🥪🧜🏼‍♀️

🏖️Heading to beach this summer with the kids?

Take the stress out of the day by ordering kids lunch boxes from our cafe.

🕰️ Order by 10am on the day and they will be ready for collection from 12pm onwards.

£6.50 per box

What’s in the box?

🥪 Half sandwich - Choose from brown, white or gluten free bread and ham, cheese or tuna filling.
🥨 Bag of Mini Chedders.
🍎 Piece of Fruit
🧁 Mini Cake
🧃Drink - Choose between a Fruit Shoot, Apple or Orange Juice.

☎️ Please call 01862 832888 to place your order.

29/06/2024

Community Tourism does strawberries 😋
Be a temporary local at Silverburn Park this summer!

28/06/2024

Brechin Community Led Tourism is a great page to check out what's happening in the areas and how you can be a temporary local!

Today's the day, the doors are officially open.....

We cannot wait to welcome you round this beautiful home and gardens at Brechin Castle

BRECHIN CASTLE & GARDENS GUIDED TOURS 2024

From Wednesday 26th June to Sunday 28th July (please note Wednesdays to Sunday opening only)

Guided Tours 1 pm and 2.30 p.m. and then come and have a walk around our beautiful gardens

Tickets available now to book
online.......https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/2024brechincastleopening

For all groups bookings of 10 people or more please contact Dalhousie Estates Office on 01356 624566 or email
[email protected]

28/06/2024

28/06/2024

SCHOOL is out for summer, and there are loads of excellent activities across Scotland! Be a temporary local here:

29/05/2024

Community tourism does BBC Springwatch!

Chris Packham and Michaela Strachan introduce a medley of live nests at RSPB Arne.

27/05/2024

Celebrate the new Levenmouth railway and active travel with us next Sunday! 🚂🚂🚂

Join a led ride from Silverburn Park to the new train station and back, learn about bike parking available at the station and on the trains to make the most of the facilities.

Bring your own bike or borrow one of ours, get in touch to reserve a place! 🚴‍♀️🚴

25/05/2024

“There is something about the Kintyre Way. Well, there must be, as over the last couple of decades, I keep going back to hike another glorious stretch of this world-class walking trail. You should, too, as it not only offers breathtaking scenery, gouges deep into the peninsula’s history and opens up Scotland’s Big Five wildlife, but it is a trail inexorably bound into the communities en route. Walk the Kintyre Way, and you - as a SCOTO-style ‘temporary local’ - are walking, talking and spending money with the local communities en route. “ read the latest blog by award winning travel writer Robin McKelvie https://www.belocal.scot/stories/the-kintyre-way/














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The Kintyre Way is one of Scotland's Great Trails, stretching from Tarbert in the North to Machrihanish in the South.

24/05/2024

does the best pints because you know your money is returning to the community!

Be a temporary local in The Kings Arms - Ballantrae's Community Pub and Hub this weekend!

We’re open as usual from 5pm-12am on Friday 😊🍸🍺