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Last Updated: 31/10/2024 12:41:39
Friday, 05 May 2023 12:23
Youth Beatz Festival is once again back for 2023, and this year promises to be bigger and better than ever before. Youth Beatz festival is a 9 day festival with events taking place across every Ward area of Dumfries and Galloway as part of the Fringe...
Friday, 05 May 2023 12:00
Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Fostering and Adoption Team is celebrating Foster Care Fortnight between the 15 and 28 May.
Foster care is at the heart of our communities, enabling children and young people to stay in their local community, close...
Thursday, 04 May 2023 13:47
Work at Stranraer Museum has been progressing well with key tasks taking place such as the careful removal of paint and cement render from the stonework and opening-up the roof and interior walls. Buildings of the Museum’s nature and age are...
Tuesday, 02 May 2023 14:21
Our Council is delighted to announce the launch of the Dumfries and Galloway Council Design Awards for 2023. This year’s awards are for development or building works completed between 1st April 2019 and 31st March 2023.
Dumfries and Galloway Design...
Tuesday, 25 April 2023 13:15
Councillors at Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Communities Committee met on 4 April and received an update in relation to the Scottish Government’s Play Park Renewal Fund. Elected members agreed to allocate £1.250m from the Scottish...
Monday, 24 April 2023 18:30
Learners across our secondary schools will begin their exams next week as the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) exam diet begins today (Monday 24 April.)
Young people from S3 to S6 will sit examinations in a variety of subjects across the next...
Monday, 24 April 2023 11:43
In January 2023, a team of inspectors from Education Scotland visited Langholm Academy to find out how well young people are learning and achieving. Inspectors evaluated Langholm Academy’s learning, teaching and assessment as ‘Good‘,...
Thursday, 20 April 2023 15:11
National campaigns either capture your attention or they don’t, but it is clear this years Spring Clean Scotland campaign has struck a chord with our communities across the region as 1706 individuals have grabbed their litter pickers, donned their...
Wednesday, 05 April 2023 14:48
A new exhibition has opened in Dumfries Museum celebrating the lives of ‘The Women of Dumfries’ through the themes of Art, Suffrage, Temperance and War. The exhibition focuses on the years 1850-1950, a time when the lives of women were...
Friday, 31 March 2023 16:08
A new programme of youth work activities during Easter school holidays has been released for Stewartry area, focussing on groups based in Castle Douglas, Dalbeattie and Kirkcudbright.
Featuring a wide range of targeted and universal provision, the groups...
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