Stow & District Pensioners day out
The more mature members of our community had a lovely mellow time on this year’s Pensioners Society’s summer outing; all made possible with the kind contributions from the local community – thank you one and all!
Low Carbon Galawater update
The L.C.G. committee are working hard to find ways of locally reducing our carbon footprint. In particular, a local wood fuel project is taking shape. If you have some information to share or would like to find out more, please get in touch with Steffen taschner@hotmail.com.
Sound Out news
After months of planning Sound Outs first Stowed Out Festival brought the whole community together for a great day of live music. The figures speak for themselves. 8hrs of music, 41 Musicians, 2 Story tellers, 8 Craft stalls, 9 Committee Members , 35 Volunteers. 5 marquees, 500 Members of the public over the 8hours and […]
Chernobyl lifeline update
The month of July heralded the 8th visit by children to the Scottish Borders Link of Chernobyl Children Lifeline. The link was started in Stow in 2001, and since then over 100 children from Belarus have been hosted in the Borders and North Northumberland, and over £50,000 has been raised to fund these annual visits. […]
Community Resilience Plan
At a recent public meeting, Fountainhall community discussed making a resilience plan. This is where the community can pull together in bad times; for example , in situations with bad snow, power cuts, flooding, bad accidents, a missing person etc. We have had an excellent response. Our plan is being completed and will be up […]
Fountainhall back to school
The children have all settled back to school very happily. We welcomed our new Primary 1 children, who are coping admirably with full school days. Our topic this block is Water, which seems very appropriate considering the weather! The children are having swimming lessons once a week for the next six weeks and extra-curricular football […]
Notes on the wind
Fountainhall Primary School Parent Council, Stow Parish Archive;, Stow Pipe Band; and Wooplaw Community Woodland have been the latest groups to benefit from grants awarded by the Stow & Fountainhall Windfarm Community Benefit Fund. For more details visit www.scottishcf.org/resources/grant-map. Or telephone Head of Community Programmes, Rachel Searle-Mbullu 0141 341 4961. A scoping report for Girthgate […]
Stow School Update
At Stow school everyone has settled back into their new classes. We are pleased to welcome Mrs Fairbairn, Mr Hunter and Mrs Wilkinson who have joined our staff. We were all very sad to say goodbye to Miss Graham who has moved to Knowepark as Acting Deputy Head teacher. We look forward to welcoming Miss […]
Stow Pipe Band Update
You may have heard of the success of the Pipe Band at competitions over the last 2 seasons, World Champions in 2011 in Grade 4A and this year Scottish Champions in Grade 3B! This is mainly due to Stow Pipe Band joining forces with Hawick pipe band to form the Scottish Borders Pipe Band. The […]
Community Newsletter: Public Notice
For reasons of logistics, and owing to inflated petrol costs, we are looking to send out e-copies of the community newsletter to rural households in the more remote areas. ...read more
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