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Melanie McEwen has become Development Manager as Gordon Mann leaves as Trust Chair.

Dumfries and Galloway Council has become the first whole Council in Scotland to be awarded the Investing in Volunteers (IiV) Charter Mark of Excellence by Volunteer Scotland. The external accreditation was officially presented to Dawn Roberts, Chief Executive and Stephen Thompson, former Council Leader at the Ewart Library in Dumfries on Tuesday 14 February 2023… Read more »

The Tackling Poverty Reference Group is a regional group of Volunteers who have direct experience of poverty.

All the sessions are designed to help the third sector become stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Wheatley Homes South will be delivering their environmental roots employability programme in Dumfries. Due to the way the programmes are funded, places can only be offered to Wheatley customers. This is anyone living in a Wheatley Homes South, formerly DGHP house, or anyone being supported by Wheatley Care. Environmental Roots is a 4 week employability… Read more »

An artist is being commissioned to work with the community to embrace and express the excitement surrounding the future of Dumfries’ Midsteeple Quarter. They will host a series of engagement events with people of all ages to capture the determination and ambition behind the drive to breathe new life into the town centre through community… Read more »

Many people need medical care that can’t be delivered at their home – this could be physiotherapy, occupational therapy, or just time in a medical setting. This is intermediate care. This year, Dumfries and Galloway Health and Social Care is engaging to gather views about intermediate care in the region and is launching Right Care, Right… Read more »

Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway hosts and helps to run thematic forums as part of its engagement work – including its regular one on Employability. The forum is open to any third sector organisation or community group that self-identifies as having a role to play, or interest, in that subject area. The forums: Provide a… Read more »

The project will refurbish the 145-year-old Old School, creating a new Community and Enterprise Centre for the DG11 area.

Dalbeattie Rocks and Wheels, Stranraer Water Sports Centre, and the George Hotel in Stranraer are part of a successful £17.7million bid by Dumfries and Galloway Council. It has been announced that the local authority has successfully bid to round two of the UK Government’s Levelling Up Fund (LUF) for the ‘Reactivating Galloway’ vision. The three… Read more »

The project involved many people from the People’s Project and Dumfries and Galloway Council working together.

The new Macmillan-funded service is expected to be fully up and running in Dumfries and Galloway by September this year.

The programme of visits is supported by South of Scotland Enterprise and organised by Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway.

The funding is being delivered in partnership between the Scottish Government and Inspiring Scotland.

The New Year Honours List for 2023 recognises the achievements and service of extraordinary people across the UK.

Our Online Conversations are designed to help the third sector in Dumfries and Galloway become stronger, more resilient, and more sustainable.

Volunteers with older people’s charity are ensuring residents across Dumfries and Galloway have all the food they need for the festive season.

The UK Shared Prosperity Fund succeeds the old EU structural funds and will invest in three local priorities; communities and place, support for local businesses and people and skills.

Parents Inclusion Network and The Stove Network were among the groups and both received £150,000.

Three local charities to benefit from return of Kinder shop in Dumfries for one more day.

Free mobile app DGLocator is being used to map warm spaces available to residents in Dumfries and Galloway.

The service wants people worried about their energy bills to seek wraparound advice that could see their incomes boosted.

The audience heard the remarkable and inspirational stories of the 24 finalists, who were shortlisted from over 200 nomination.

Both join over 300 organisations from across the UK as recipients of these special trees.

The website has been developed by the region’s Poverty and Inequalities Partnership and will signpost people in need to information and resources.

Stranraer’s The Furniture Project and The Guild Dumfries take top prizes for work to tackle climate change and encouraging entrepreneurial spirit.

A Listening Ear began after a group got together to think of ways to support lonely and isolated people stuck at home because of Covid.

The Chair works closely with all partners in the area of tackling poverty and inequalities in Dumfries and Galloway.

The report is the first known primary research report looking at the issue of digital exclusion specific to Dumfries and Galloway.

Alive Community Radio, Lockerbie Squash and Racketball Club and Tundergarth Kirk had all asked for a transfer.

The survey showed 28 per cent of organisations were reducing a service and 10 per cent closing a service, as a result of energy costs.

Do you have a product or experience you could sell as a Christmas gift?

The Scottish Government has reintroduced these measures in recognition of the severity of the issues currently affecting this sector.

The groups are among 299 from across Scotland that are sharing in grants from The National Lottery Community Fund.

The Youth Matters Conference is created by disabled young people, for disabled young people aged 12-25.

The agreements, which last until 2025, see the charities committed to carrying out landscaping services.

Dumfries and Galloway’s Health and Social Care Partnership have pledged an investment fund of £30,000 over the next six months.

The Galloway Glens Scheme is supported by a grant of more than £2.7million through the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

The project is part of the Loch Ken Plan, which aims to make Loch Ken the world’s first ‘Future Ready Community’.

The role of charities, community groups, and voluntary organisations will be critical.

The report is the first outcome of a 12-month research project to investigate the extent of digital exclusion in Dumfries and Galloway.

Spring 2022 saw the cost of operating increase for most organisations, impacting their ability to deliver core services.

The Project has already worked with 1500 young people across the region, with offices in Dumfries and Newton Stewart.

The South of Scotland’s largest community buyout is set to double in size having defied the odds and “achieved the impossible” for a second time in two years, following one of the most ambitious community fundraising campaigns ever seen.  A historic agreement for 5,300 acres of land and three properties between The Langholm Initiative charity… Read more »

Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service website is now Accessible and Inclusive with the help of the ‘Recite Me’ assistive toolba

All third sector organisations with an interest in Dumfries Town Centre would be welcome members.

The project was led by John Collins, lifeboat operations manager and mechanic at the Kirkcudbright RNLI.

Now you can explore Robert Burns Ellisland Museum and Farm in Minecraft. Players can navigate the faithfully recreated 18th century farm and interact with the bard, his wife Jean Armour, their son Bobby and some of the animals on the farm, in the Explore Ellisland Minecraft game. Explore Ellisland includes a new recording of Auld… Read more »

Their work will be exhibited at the Dumfries and Galloway Quilt Festival, which runs at Shambellie from September 23 to October 9.

The older people’s charity has unveiled a new community hub and HQ following more than a quarter of a century of saving to make it possible.