Thank you once again to Reverend Bill Holland for these two Good Friday downloadable documents to view: "The first is a Meditation for anytime during the day. The second is a Good Friday evening service. God bless, Bill." [.....]
After a lot of consideration, much discussion, and taking advice, we have decided to go ahead with the Caerlaverock Community Allotment project. Official UK Government advice and Scottish government advice is that allotments can be worked provided the [.....]
The Dumfries Wood Fuel Cooperative has introduced a call and collect service - read more below: LOCAL CLICK AND COLLECT SERVICE Our shop will remain closed for walk-in customers but we now offer a number of “click and [.....]
Ferry Fish have a new service where you can make an order online, and have it delivered to your door. >> Fresh Fish and COVID-19 Local Service https://ferryfish.myshopify.com/ During these unprecedented times we have decided to provide our [.....]
Heather Baird from Kelton got in touch a wee while ago with a very generous offer to the community, apologies it has taken longer than we'd hoped to let you all know on here... Heather writes, "I’d like [.....]
With tremendous thanks to Gerry Donnelly (of Vintage on the Nith) who has researched and compiled this fantastic resource of online 'things to do' during this lockdown. We will update it as we (and you!) find other ideas, [.....]
We have several people in the community who are experienced in helping people with mental health issues who have kindly offered their services through the Caerlaverock Community Isolation Support Group. Please do get in touch if you could [.....]
Thanks to Suzanne at SNH/ NNR Caerlaverock for filling us in: "At the moment our nature reserves remain open, but as of this week only to pedestrian and cycle traffic, the car parks are closed. As a result [.....]
Dumfries based Soul Soup offer mental health support for 12-25 year olds. They are still offering online services during the current situation. www.soulsoup.co.uk Thanks to Helen Anderson for this addition. Young Scot are Scotland's national youth information [.....]
Thanks to Karen for the recent Facebook post: "To Help reassure you all, we have now received clarification on the MOT situation. Due to the unfolding COVID-19 situation, cars and vans and motorcycles due their MOT from 30 [.....]
Thank you to Kathryn from Homes4Hens, who are putting eggs out at the end of the drive - free but a donation would be very welcome (just beside the school): Hello guys and girls! More fresh eggs are [.....]
Thanks Gerry for this info! We do have the local Boathouse Shop, which has an extended range of essentials, very worth shopping local as less exposure. They will deliver to you as well. Call on 01387 770 673 or [.....]
From Alan Hall (Third Sector D&G ): Another 27 organisations added this morning to the new map to find help in D&G during the Coronavirus pandemic - dgresilience.org.uk (Caerlaverock Support Group is in the process of being added) [.....]
From the Third Sector D&G Facebook page: Surplus food from Aldi and M&S in Dumfries from 6pm-7pm at the River of Life Church at Dumfries Station.
Lynda Anderson posted on Facebook: "This is a great time to pay appreciation to the charities that work year round to help those in our community. The Food Train is a charity started in Dumfries 25 years ago, [.....]
Thanks to Jac Irving for this link! Jac says: "With us all stuck at home using the internet a bit more than normal, our partner agencies have been busy and made some great education packs. I thought I [.....]
Message Sent By Mark Armstrong (NHWN, Community Support Officer, NW Scotland) Please be aware not everyone out there is trustworthy and some people will take advantage of this unusual situation at the present time. Here are just some [.....]
Thank you to Maybeth for sending us information to share. Rev Bill Holland will provide a PDF for the Caerlaverock Palm Sunday and Easter Services shortly, but in the meantime here a text version of the service that [.....]
The perfect food at this time is obviously chocolate. So a massive thank you to Judith Mylne for an updated Fair Trade Provision stock list, see the PDF here. Other things than chocolate available! Buying Fair Trade is a [.....]
Morning all! (Summary: Help us to help you - get on the list now while it's easy to.) In the background a lot of effort is being put in to get a safe and secure support system up [.....]
