Posts for January, 2024

Boat of Garten’s Family Fun Day is back!! Put the date in your diary today!
The day will be packed with family fun and games, a Makers Market and Food Trucks with awesome cuisine.
📅 Saturday 22 June 2024
⏰ 12:00
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall
If you are interested in holding a stall, or showcasing your produce, please get in touch.

Are Car Boot Sales your ‘thing’? If so, book in for our first sale – it’s in August this year!
📅 Sunday 25 August 2024
⏰ 12:00
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall
Our Car Boot Sales will happen in August (outdoor), September (outdoor) and October (indoor) this year.
If you are interested in holding a stall, please get in touch.

Remember, remember… the 29th of September!
📅 Sunday 29 August 2024
⏰ 12:00
📍 Boat of Garten Community Hall
Our Car Boot Sales will happen in August (outdoor), September (outdoor) and October (indoor) this year.
If you are interested in holding a stall, please get in touch.

At the Outdoor Draughts Board at The Square, Grantown-on-Spey – Opening of the 2024 Season. All welcome.

Kingussie’s annual winter festival – FOOD ON FILM – brings the big screen to the rural Highlands of Scotland in a unique way, to celebrate and explore the world of food.

A feast of short films, documentaries and features to make you laugh, think and make you hungry! Food producers gathering to share their passion and skills. The Cairngorms Food Hall showcasing the best of Highlands produce and cooking demo – it’s a recipe for a fabulous weekend!

A taste of what you will see…

• Bread competition, UK documentary premier, Meet the Director, Food demo and Food Hall

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.