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Last Updated: 28/10/2024 13:36:41
Monday, 03 July 2023 12:46
To celebrate the UCI Paracycling World Championships coming to the area from the 9-12 August, Dumfries & Galloway Council is urging people to saddle up for a ‘Summer of Cycling’.
The Council has partnered up with a range of cycling and...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023 13:42
Following Member agreement at the Dumfries and Galloway Council Economy and Resources Committee (8 June 2023), we have published the 15th edition Development Plan Scheme (DPS). The Dumfries and Galloway Council DPS sets out the programme for preparing...
Tuesday, 27 June 2023 11:32
After months of excitement and preparation, Youth Beatz 2023 is almost here – with 40,000 young people expected to attend the UK’s largest free youth music event on Saturday 1 and Sunday 2 July at Park Farm Showfield, Dumfries.
For 2023, the...
Monday, 26 June 2023 14:48
Dumfries and Galloway Council has launched a survey about the housing needs and future aspirations of local households. The survey will allow the Council to better understand the housing circumstances and needs of local households so that a good range of...
Monday, 26 June 2023 11:47
Following a Full Council decision in June 2018, elected members agreed to a Transformation Programme to address the challenges of providing a high-quality service across dispersed rural communities, to an ageing and declining population, set against a...
Friday, 23 June 2023 14:23
Starting on Saturday 1 July at Gracefield Arts Centre in Dumfries, the Dumfries & Galloway Fine Arts Society Annual Exhibition will be open until Saturday 5 August.
Originally set up in 1922, Dumfries and Galloway’s largest practising art group...
Friday, 23 June 2023 13:55
Dumfries and Galloway Council has invested £264,000 of funding to provide a wide range of free activities over the summer holidays to ensure that children and young people across the region have a Summer to remember.
Activities will run from...
Thursday, 22 June 2023 14:26
The Youth Information in Schools Project, part of Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Youth Work Team, has won in the Health & Wellbeing category at YouthLink Scotland’s National Youth Work Awards, held on Wednesday 21 June.
The Youth...
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:45
Elected Members on Dumfries and Galloway Council's Finance, Procurement and Transformation (FPT) Committee met today (Tuesday 20 June) to receive a report on the Council’s financial performance for the year ended 31 March 2023.
The report states...
Tuesday, 20 June 2023 14:42
Elected members gave two Community Asset Transfers (CATs) and the lease of the Loreburn Hall the green light to progress at today’s (Tuesday 20 June) meeting of the Finance, Procurement and Transformation Committee.
Community Asset Transfers allow...
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