Posts for December, 2023

Following the Badenoch and Strathspey Pipe Band and Santa with his reindeer from the fire station, down Grampian Road. Finishing at the Cairngorm Hotel with a singalong with Speysound Radio. Culminating in a fireworks display

Bringing a night out to your workout! Fitness Class – Dancing in the dark with disco lights, suitable for all levels of fitness and ages.

Classes cost £8.00 or BLOCK BOOK 6 WEEKS for £42.50

Reusable Glow Sticks cost £5 and can be purchased at the venue

Clubbercise® is a fun, full-body workout with a BANGING soundtrack that gets great results and suits all fitness levels.

Set to club anthems from 90’s classics to the latest hits, classes and events are held in a darkened room with party lights and trademark LED glow sticks.

Easy-to-follow routines combine dance, toning and combat moves.

Repair Cafe Cairngorms has been running since 2021 and our wonderful volunteers turn up one Sunday a month to tackle repairs on a wide range of items from textiles and clothing to lamps, ornaments, small electrical appliances and devices as well as jewellery, spectacles, wood and metal work and garden tools. While all the repairing is going on, there’s also a fabulous cafe with home-baking, hot drinks and plenty of social chatter. It all adds up to a lively and fun afternoon.

It’s a surprisingly satisfying project that helps bring loved items back into full or new use, builds our skills in sourcing and fitting new parts, and, perhaps most of all, reduces the waste that our community sends to landfill. In two years between 2021 and 2023, we have estimated that our repairs improved our community carbon output by the equivalent of 37,000 fewer car miles or of planting 55 trees.

In Boat of Garten Community Hall, doors open at 2pm and close at 5pm. Last repairs accepted at 4.30pm.
Bring us something you’d love to get repaired or just pop in to see what we’re up to.

Traditional Scottish music provided by famed Shetland fiddle player Maggie Adamson along with some of her friends.

We meet monthly on a Friday to discuss and share your book recommendations.

Refreshments available for a donation.

The Glen Tanar Christmas Fair is back for 2023, and we’re more excited than ever to celebrate the holiday season with you! Join us as we bring together an incredible lineup of local producers, along with a mouthwatering selection of food and drink suppliers that will make your Christmas extra special.

Here’s what you can look forward to at our festive fair:

🌲 The Seed Box Ltd will be selling beautiful Christmas trees from the Walled Garden.

🌿 The Glen Tanar Charitable Trust is hosting two guided nature walks for children to explore the beauty of Glen Tanar this winter.

🌟 Emily From Fior will lead a magical Christmas Wreath Workshop, where you can create your very own festive masterpiece.

Glen Tanar has everything you need to ‘Wrap Up’ the holiday season in style. 🎁

Stay tuned for more updates and announcements. Tickets go live for the wreath workshops on Friday 10th November. We can’t wait to see you all again this year and make this Christmas the most memorable one yet! 🎉❄️🤶

Ceilidh open to all the family at Cromdale Village Hall. Tickets only £10, children under 16 are free. A BYOB event. Come and join us for a fantastic evening

Three days of festive fun in Braemar.
Dinners
Music Cafe
Jingle Bell Jaunt
Wreath Making Workshop
Food Carts and Fires
A Celebration of Christmas Concert
Christmas Markets
Horse Carriage Rides
Santa’s Grotto
Story and Songs with Santa
Mulled Wine and Fires
Festival Finale – Ballater Pipe Band

Join us as we ❄️ Welcome Winter ❄️ at this *free annual community event at the Aviemore Ice Rink, located within the Macdonald Aviemore Resort on Friday 15th December from 4pm to 10pm.
We will be celebrating all there is to love about the winter season here in the Cairngorms National Park at our Annual Winter Launch Festival. There will be BBQ, Music, Mulled Wine, Mince Pies, Fire Pit & Smore, Ice Skating and much more!
❄️⛸🏒🥌🏂⛷☃️ 🍔🍷🥧🔥✨
📆 Friday 15th December 2023
⏰ 4pm to 10pm (ice rink open from 1.30pm for ice activities)
📍Aviemore Ice Rink, located within the Macdonald Aviemore Resort
*Free entry event – fundraising activities to support the development of our community ice sports programs and the Aviemore Burnside Playpark Project
Organised and hosted by Aviemore and Glenmore Community Trust

We would love for you to join us in our tipi for a night of festivities, with seasonal cocktails on the bar, musical merriment and a whole load of Christmas spirit. Your ticket includes a drink on arrival and an array of tasty canapes, with the brilliantly talented Umami on the decks guaranteed to get you dancing.

Space is limited so don’t miss out