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Coronavirus Emergency - Our Community Responds
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West Stormont Woodland Group Update …
Working with local people to bring Taymount Wood and Five Mile Wood into Community Ownership. Click read more for lat... Read more
Delivery Person/People Required from Sep…
10 issues a year to all households in Dunkeld (not Jan or August)
Ideally delivery takes place over a weekend. ... Read more
House Needed
John Martin has been living in temporary accommodation in Dunkeld since December last year.
John is involved in... Read more
Culture Perth & Kinross Museums …
For all our young book worms out there, the ever-popular Summer Reading Challenge will be returning to its physical f... Read more
Birnam Institute Library
Birnam Library is currently closed at present.
Mobile Library One will be visiting Birnam, stopping at the Insti... Read more
Current Coronavirus (COVID-19) Guidance …
It is anticipated that Scotland will move to level zero on July 19. If there are no concerns around rising hospitalis... Read more
Dunkeld & Birnam UnPlugged 2021
18th -26th September
Due to make a return this year, the Dunkeld and Birnam Unplugged festival came out of an id... Read more
Dunkeld and Birnam Climate Café News
Established in 2015 as a six month pilot, leading up to the climate negotiations in Paris, the Climate Café was so po... Read more
Karen Inkster - The Deaf the Daft and th…
In 2017 my deaf dog Pip, ditsy mare Connie and daft old me travelled to the Outer Hebrides for an adventure of a life... Read more
A World Community … Planet Saving Tip
Celebrating Three Years as Scotland’s first First Water Efficient Village!
Keep up the good work.
Dreich ... Read more
Christian Aid
Thanks to all who organised and supported the second-hand book sale at the Duchess Anne. There was quite a selection ... Read more
Thursday After School Club
A few weeks ago a weekly after school club was started jointly with the Church of Scotland and St. Mary’s Episcopal c... Read more
Men's Breakfast
The men’s breakfast has been meeting weekly by zoom on Wednesday mornings at 9am. Obviously we miss the bacon rolls b... Read more
Dunkeld Cathedral - Online Services
Online worship is continuing for the time being.
You can find a weekly service on YouTube by searching for ‘Dunk... Read more
Church Services
Weekly services in the Cathedral have been running very smoothly under current restrictions. Government regulations n... Read more
Booking Halls
Jill McRory has taken over from Ruth Brown doing Church Secretarial work. One of her tasks will be to take bookings f... Read more
Messy Church
We're missing all our Messy Church friends and families.
Watch out for the next Dunkeld Messy Church on line, de... Read more
The Meeting Place
Due to current circumstances, unfortunately The Meeting Place is off until further notice
Read moreThree Churches Charity Shop
BIG Bric-a-Brac / Collectables SALE at the Duchess Anne Hall, Dunkeld
Saturday 31st July, 10am – 2pm
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Dunkeld and Birnam in Bloom
Alas! The spring flowers are no longer with us but Dunkeld & Birnam in Bloom is preparing for the next colourful ... Read more
News From Craigvinean Surgery
Our Doctors Surgery will be open as normal with telephone consultations with the GP in the first instance To help kee... Read more
Baby & Toddler Group
We meet around 09.30am of Fridays outside the Birnam Hotel and our meetings last around two hours.
We welcome a... Read more
‘Gien a Haund’ (Support for Older People…
With several local services for older people yet to reopen and demand for lifts still very low, we’re concentrating o... Read more
Community Council Matters
If you would like to contact the Community Council you can do so by emailing: dbcc.correspondence@gmail.com or email ... Read more
4x4 Adventure Trek Days
Take your 4x4 up into the hills above Dunkeld with on an Adventure Trek Day with Land Rover Experience Scotland.
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Lodge Donations
The members of the United Lodge of Dunkeld have recently made over £2,000 of donations to local charities and good ca... Read more
Birnam Arts Vacancy: We're Hiring!
Our team is growing! We've been undergoing some major developments to refocus and refresh Birnam Arts as a creative, ... Read more
July at Loch of the Lowes
Scottish Wildlife Trust’s Loch of the Lowes Visitor Centre is open Thursday-Monday (closed Tues-Wed) throughout July... Read more
Brownies
If you are a girl between 7 and 10 years old why not join the Dunkeld & Birnam Brownies pack?
Despite ... Read more
Community Council News and Minutes
This page contains minutes and other items of interest from the Dunkeld & Birnam Community Council, from January ... Read more
Ways to boost your mental health this Ma…
Mental Health Awareness following a pandemic where so many people have had severe challenges seems incredibly poignan... Read more
Find out more about.. The COP26 Coalitio…
The COP 26 Coalition is a civil society coalition made of groups and individuals from a range of constituencies in Sc... Read more
The Field Update
Volunteers have been "beavering" away up at the field since the last snows melted off the ground in March. The snow h... Read more
New Zoom Pods at the Community Coworking…
The Community Coworking space at Lagmhor, Little Dunkeld is re-opening from Monday 3rd May.
During lockdown the... Read more
Balsam Pulling
It’s official - It’s all about climate change and ecosystem conservation. Check out the Nature Scot website https://w... Read more
Dunkeld and Birnam Horti Club
Unfortunately it doesn’t look as if we’ll have any meetings this year but there is good news on the gardening front w... Read more
Stronger Communities Update - 22nd Febru…
This week’s update is filled with a variety of interesting learning opportunities from cyber resilience to understand... Read more
West Stormont Woodland Group Press Relea…
Community Consultation: Have your say on plans to bring two Perthshire woodlands into Community Ownership.
... Read moreA Vision for the 2020s - Your Community …
There’s a strong sense the world will be much changed when Covid restrictions finally recede. “Getting back to normal... Read more
Niel Gow Memorial
The memorial to fiddler Niel Gow was installed in Little Dunkeld on Thursday 10th December, at a location on the Birn... Read more
Royal School of Dunkeld Our Lockdown Boo…
To mark a unique year, the pupils at the Royal School of Dunkeld have put together Our Lockdown Book, together with l... Read more
Painted Rocks Are Local Gems
Lockdown, opening up, tier 2, tier 3, restrictions to face, guidelines to follow… one way we’ve stayed healthy, socia... Read more
Good Quality Toys Needed For Re-Gifting
For the first time in 8 years there won’t be a Santa Day Toy Fair. However we are asking the community to donate toys... Read more
Manager Of The Scottish Deli In Dunkeld …
In More Ways Than One... Six years ago, The Scottish Deli manager Jane Saba from Dunkeld stepped into the role of ret... Read more
Candlelit Late Night Christmas Shopping
Friday 11th December, 4pm to 8pm. Dunkeld’s Atholl Street as you’ve never seen it before! We’ve tried to conjure up t... Read more
Battle of Dunkeld Marked
The 330th anniversary of the Battle of Dunkeld was marked by two local residents last month.
Morag McMartin laid... Read more
Unwelcome Visitors
Our traditional warm welcome is not extended to grey squirrels and it’s time to show them the (trap) door.
In th... Read more
Community Action Plan
Over recent years, many communities across Scotland have decided to develop a Community Action Plan which refle... Read more
Letter from Lord-Lieutenant for Perth an…
Dear all
I write as Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant for Perth and Kinross and on behalf of the Queen to express my... Read more
PH8 Coronavirus Group
What we’ve delivered and what happens next:
From the germ of an idea in the week before lockdown to a large mult... Read more
Sport & Active
Dunkeld and Birnam has a wide variety of sport clubs and activity groups which welcome participants of all abilities... Read more
The "Horti" Continues to Bring…
New pictures to bring spring into your home. With thanks to Erin, Christine, Jan and Moira.
For many... Read more
Happy 110th Birthday to Jessie Sinclair
Ahead of the date Scheme Manager Briony McDonald (left) put out a message to the PH8 Community that she was after a m... Read more
Highland Perthshire Communities Land Tru…
2020 AGM and Open Meeting
John Swinney, Cabinet Secretary for Education & Skills, was at Dùn Coillich commun... Read more
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