Join us for a celebratory fundraising meal to mark the end of the community shop share offer! A great night with delicious food courtesy of Marion and Dave at The Smithy, tickets £20. First come first served so grab yours now – see you there!
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A fabulous fundraising night to help reach the £20,000 target New Galloway needs to release the £800,000 Big Lottery funding awarded last month!
Scott Joplin, the ‘King of Ragtime’, is in the news just now on the centenary of his death, and we have our own resident and respected pianist and Joplin expert here in New Galloway. Come and hear a selection of Joplin’s beautiful work and other greats of Ragtime in a relaxed cafe style atmosphere with bar, cocktails and Southern States inspired tapas to share!
The son of a slave, Joplin was a pioneer of Ragtime, a fusion of Black American folk music and European classical music. Composer of two operas as well as his Ragtime works, his music has a spirit, vitality and inventiveness that is ‘as difficult to play as it is lovely to hear’. Ragtime paved the way for jazz and is regarded as the birth of American music. Enjoying a renaissance in the 1970s with the release of ‘The Sting’ (1973) which featured Joplin’s famous piece ‘The Entertainer’, it has remained popular ever since.
Saturday 22nd April, New Galloway Town Hall. Doors open at 7pm, tickets £10 on sale from CatStrand or The Smithy, New Galloway, by calling 07967 959 511 or emailing ngcommunityshop@gmail.com
Share Offer launches! This Sunday (12th).
As part of the plans to save the village shop, New Galloway Community Enterprises is raising money by selling Community Shares. By buying a Share, you can join in the future of New Galloway. Come along to our Launch Event on Sunday in the Town Hall to find out more, or look out for the Share Offer Brochures around the village from Sunday.
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New Galloway Community Enterprises Ltd is a Community Benefit company owned by the New Galloway community and set up to trade for their benefit.
It is hoping to source Big Lottery grant funding to buy Hopkins shop in New Galloway – the last remaining grocery shop in the village – and convert it into a Community Shop.
The Community Shop will provide good value, high quality food for New Galloway residents, with a strong emphasis on community support and local food.
The six-bedroom house above the shop will be converted into two self-catering apartments for letting to the tourist market. This will generate further income which can be invested back into New Galloway’s other charitable needs.
It is also planned to make the shop into a social well-being hub, to further support the community. From the large back-office, an Enterprise Manager will offer a sign-posting service to let people find the right help at times of life upheaval, host benefit-maximisation surgeries to ensure people are getting what they are entitled to, and administer fuel buying co-operatives to save people money on fuel bills.
The long term aim is for New Galloway to be a self-sustaining village with its own income and strong community support for all of its residents.
In late February 2016, the NGCE team learned that they had been successful in applying for Development grant funding for the project. This grant allowed them to take on a number of professional consultants to create the very detailed and lengthy second stage bid submission. This second stage bid will be submitted in July 2016 and if successful will result in the full amount required to buy and renovate the house and shop, plus some operating costs, being granted in November 2016.
The professional team are
- Helen Keron (New Galloway) – Project Manager
- Creetown Initiatives – Development Consultants
- Marc Henkelmann (Kirkcudbright) – Architect
- Sarah Ade (Dalry) – Communications Assistant
- Andrew Crossan (Dumfries) – Quantity Surveyor
New Galloway Community Enterprises 