Posts for April, 2025

Come along to a mountain biking skills workshop with Anna Riddell from RideOut.
Learn to ride drops, berms or your first jump.

9.30 – 10.30am Beginners drops (12+ – adult)

10.45 – 11.45am Berms and rollers (12+ – adult)

12 – 1pm Beginners Jumps (12+ – adult)

Wheels Around Grantown is a cycling festival to promote cycling in Grantown-on-Spey and the wider Strathspey area. It will be held between the 8th and 13th April 2025.

Enjoy a fabulous three course meal in our restaurant and then head out to explore the majestic evening sky with Kyle. Afterwards you’ll return to the warmth of the hotel and its open fires for a hot chocolate and a chat about what you have seen.

Please wrap up warm for the one hour walk and be prepared for any weather! Bring your mobile phone so that we can show you how to learn more about the stars after the experience has finished.

Times: Dinner is served at 7:30 pm and the walk starts at 8:45pm
*times may be subject to change and will go ahead in inclement weather.

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, glueing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

Accessibility: Accessible for all abilities, knowledges and experiences of crafting and the Cairngorms. Toilets, car-parking and wheelchair access available at all venues. Please contact Cairngorms Connect with any questions: robbie.synge@cairngormsconnect.org.uk

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, glueing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

Accessibility: Accessible for all abilities, knowledges and experiences of crafting and the Cairngorms. Toilets, car-parking and wheelchair access available at all venues. Please contact Cairngorms Connect with any questions: robbie.synge@cairngormsconnect.org.uk

Get involved in a free family-friendly crafting project to build a large tabletop model of a remote landscape in the Cairngorms during the Easter holidays!

We’re bringing the landscape to us! Join us in creating a collaborative 3D cardboard contour model of Loch A’an, a remote and difficult to access place deep in the Cairngorms Connect landscape. Through cutting, gluing and layering cardboard, an accurate topographical replica becomes something we can touch, imagine and learn about.

Drop-in anytime to one of five sessions we’re running during the Easter holidays. Get involved, create cardboard creatures and invent your own little landscapes too! All materials are provided.

We invite you to join us for a celebration of Ballindalloch Distillery, Whisky and Estate, an unmissable afternoon of Whisky, food, music and fun. Think Festival within a Festival!

Your ticket includes use of a free shuttle bus service running from Elgin, Rothes, Craigellachie and Aberlour for those who want to fully enjoy everything we have to offer at our Ballindalloch Estate BBQ.

Come and explore our beautiful Single Estate Distillery and discover what makes us unique in Speyside: our traditional manual production process and the circular economy within the Estate of our natural resources and by-products. From the very outset, the production of our Whisky was always destined to be “hands on”. With a clear commitment to tradition, the Single Estate nature of our process allows us to control every aspect of Whisky making. From the barley we grow at our Home Farm to the draff fed back to cattle across the Estate, we craft our Whisky in a way that generations past would have recognised.

Your ticket includes access to the Distillery production area, where you can discuss Whisky making with our highly skilled production team. You will be joining us for an afternoon of Ballindalloch Single Malt Whisky drams, food from our Ballindalloch BBQ featuring Aberdeen Angus meat, the breed closely associated with Ballindalloch (a delicious vegan option will be available too), all catered by Calum’s Kitchen.

As a family owned and working estate, the Macpherson-Grants invite you to experience many aspects of estate life through various fun activities. We will have archery, golf challenges, and live music. Also, as Chieftain of the Aberlour Highland Games, current Laird, Guy Macpherson-Grant is looking forward to watching you join in some caber tossing and other Games sports. With so much to see & do, we guarantee you a great afternoon at Ballindalloch.

You can use your ticket to secure a discount in our shop, with the opportunity to purchase our exclusive Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival bottling!

Featuring artworks by four brilliant female artists – Helen Bruce, Penny Godlington, Shona Cammack and Tania Mackie. These paintings are inspired by the shoreline, sea and sand.

The Rotary Club of Spey Valley is proud to present its second Charity Classic, Sports and EV Car Tour on Sunday May 11th 2025 sponsored by Arnold Clark Mercedes-Benz.

Starting in Aviemore the route of approximately 150 miles takes participants to The Moray Coast, lunch at Cullen returning to Aviemore through Speyside. The tour will conclude with a meal, presentations and prize giving.

Entry is free with donations Macmillan Cancer Support – because cancer can affect the patient’s life in so many ways the charity does whatever it takes to give people the support they need.

CRY- Cardiac Risk in the Young– works to reduce the frequency of young sudden cardiac death (YSCD) and offers support to families affected by YSCD. Every week in the UK at least 12 young people die of undiagnosed heart conditions. CRY is a UK registered charity founded in 1995.

The Rotary Club of Spey Valley – supports local, national and international charities as well as local causes.

Outside dance event by Cairngorm School of Dance