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Join us for a festive weekend of holiday cheer at the YM Community Centre! Mark your calendars for the weekend of 30th November – 1st December as we celebrate the season with community events for everyone to enjoy.
✨ Christmas Tree Festival
📅 Saturday 30th & Sunday 1st December
⏰ 10am – 4pm
Be dazzled by a beautiful display of Christmas trees decorated by local community groups and businesses!
🎁 Christmas Market
📅 Saturday 30th November
⏰ 10am – 2pm
Find unique gifts at our craft stalls, enjoy some mulled wine, and treat yourself to a mince pie. Perfect for holiday shopping!
🎉 Fiona’s Wholefoods Festivities
📅 All Weekend
Enjoy family fun with live music, festive food and drinks, face painting, and more!
For more information, please contact us at: grantownccfundraising@gmail.com
Let’s make this Christmas unforgettable in Grantown! We look forward to seeing you!
Join us for festive family stargazing on Thursday, December 19th, 2024. We’ll have tea, hot chocolate and festive treats in the Discovery Centre before going outside to look for stars, planets, and constellations. Santa hats, bells, and reindeer noses and antlers welcome!
Toilets are available in the Tomintoul & Glenlivet Discovery Centre.
If the weather isn’t suitable on the day, we’ll endeavour to run an alternative session on the 20th.
As we will be outside in December, please dress extra warmly for cold and changeable weather. Please also wear appropriate shoes for wet, and wintry conditions.
Join Cairngorms Astronomy Group and Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust in The Square, Tomintoul for an all ages telescope moon viewing session on Saturday, December 7th, 2024. The first quarter Moon is a great time to view and learn about the moon. Jupiter is also at opposition, which means that Jupiter is directly opposite the sun in the solar system from Earth’s perspective. This alignment makes Jupiter appear larger and brighter than usual, and is the best time to observe it. Saturn will also be in the sky and makes a superb telescope target. We’ll meet at Tomintoul & Glenlivet Discovery Centre at 43 The Square, Tomintoul at 6:30pm.
The Glenlivet and Tomintoul area is one of the best places in the Cairngorms National Park to discover the wonders of the night sky. Not only does this remote area have stunning dark skies but it also has easy access allowing everyone to enjoy a night sky brimming with stars.
We’ll have the Celestron telescope and a smartphone bracket on the night that will allow you to take the moon home in your pocket!
Toilets are available in the Tomintoul & Glenlivet Discovery Centre.
If the weather isn’t suitable on the day, we’ll endeavour to run an alternative session in the days following.
As we will be outside in December in the highest village in the Scottish Highlands, please dress warmly for cold and changeable weather. Please also wear appropriate shoes for wet, and wintry conditions.
Would you like to learn more about the night sky and constellations? Join us at the Glenlivet Hall on Thursday, December 5th. We’ll have tea, biscuits, and a brief presentation in the hall before going outside for a short stroll in a group to look at stars, planets, and constellations and share resources for improving your celestial knowledge.
The Glenlivet and Tomintoul area is one of the best places in the Cairngorms National Park to discover the wonders of the night sky. It is Scotland’s second International Dark Sky Park and the most northerly in the world.
This work party will be removing small regenerating trees and bushes by hand and using hand tools to prevent the shading out of bird’s-foot trefoil, the foodplant of dingy skipper caterpillars. Please let the organizer know in advance if you plan to attend. Bring lunch and wear old clothes. If you have them, bring work gloves.
Image credit – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erynnis_tages,_Dingy_Skipper,_Llanymynech_Hill,_North_Wales,_April_2014_(21689891521).jpg
Dearest Brave Soul,
The mysterious Marilyn asked to spend an evening in the castle, but little did the castle team know that her intention was to hold a séance! Hold it she did and when the team returned to the castle the next day they found things were….different. Doors opened by themselves, mist seemed to hover in the halls, the walls seemed to be talking. What has she done?! So many spirits now seem to walk the rooms, the grounds, and the very fabric of the castle. Just how many spirits are there? The castle has been around for 400 years!
We need you to come to the castle so that we can encourage the spirits to rest once more…if you dare.
Best wishes
The Castle Team
The “tour” will take between 30 – 40 minutes. (Tours at 1830, 1900 & 1930)
There will be a free cleansing brew at the end of the event to ward off any spirits that may have attached themselves to you.
The castle gets very cold and will be quite dark so you must wear sensible shoes and warm layers.
The castle is not designed for people with mobility issues, which there is nothing we can do about. Sorry.
Small print: All tickets are non-refundable unless the event is cancelled by the organiser. This is not an event for those of a nervous disposition. The castle is not wheelchair accessible. There will be smoke, lights and loud noises in the castle so only buy a ticket if these will not be problematic for you. There will be a mock-séance, so if this is something that makes you uncomfortable then this event is not for you. No under 16s unless accompanied by a parent or guardian, no under 14s under any circumstances.
Art and craft fair including the following stalls –
Photography
Metalwork
Soaps
Books
Art
Produce
This work party will be removing regenerating trees by hand and using hand tools to prevent the shading out of kidney vetch, the foodplant of small blue butterfly caterpillars. Please let the organizer know in advance if you plan to attend. Bring lunch and wear old clothes. If you have them, bring work gloves.
The worksite is on the opposite side of the River Dulnain to the nearest road access. If water levels are low, we will be able to walk across the river in welly boots. So please bring welly boots. The work site itself is dry. If the river level is too high for wellies, we will need to walk 1.5 miles to get to the work site, some of this on pathless terrain.
Image credit – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Small_Blue_butterfly_in_the_Liz_Williams_Butterfly_Haven.jpg
This work party will be removing small regenerating trees and bushes by hand and using hand tools to prevent the shading out of bird’s-foot trefoil, the foodplant of dingy skipper caterpillars. Please let the organizer know in advance if you plan to attend. Bring lunch and wear old clothes. If you have them, bring work gloves.
Image credit – https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Erynnis_tages,_Dingy_Skipper,_Llanymynech_Hill,_North_Wales,_April_2014_(21689891521).jpg
All are welcome to join us for our Carol Service with traditional carols. The event is fully accessible.
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