A great way to be involved in your local community! Applications close on 20th April 2025. The nadara Glenkerie Wind Farm Community Fund has a vacancy for a new panel member to help advise on the distribution of grants to local community groups and charities. You don’t need any special Read more…
Below are links to the application forms. All applications should be submitted to the Community Council Secretary tweedsmuirsecretary@outlook.com, or handed to any of the community councillors Clyde Borders Youth Bursaries for Tweedsmuir Community Council residents under 18 years old SSE Youth Bursary Guidelines SSE youth bursary application (pdf format) Clyde Borders Read more…
This year the Upper Tweed Community Council is running bus trips to Edinburgh and Glasgow. This will enable you to enjoy shopping, go to the cinema, visit museums or tourist attractions, eat out, be in Edinburgh at Festival time, go to a pantomime, or buy Christmas presents. All these are possible with Read more…
Borders Forest Trust need you! They have their inaugural tree planting day at Talla tomorrow (Saturday 30th April). Here’s the information: We are meeting at Talla Linnfoot at 10.30am, walking up to the bothy where we will gather, collect a few trees each and then plant them nearby in suitable Read more…
Two closures to report: The Broughton – Biggar road (B7016) is closed this Monday (21st) from 8am to 4pm at Corstaine Farm for road repairs. Diversion via Skirling or Kilbucho. More importantly, the Post Office at Broughton Garage will close when Ruth Halsall retires on Tuesday 5th April. The Post Read more…
Following last year’s pilot scheme, Upper Tweed Community Council is proposing to apply for funding for another series of bus trips in 2016. Their plan is to run three trips from Broughton/Tweedsmuir to Edinburgh in June, August (Fringe) and December (Christmas shopping) and one to Glasgow in July. These trips Read more…
Friday 18th March Tweedsmuir Village Hall 7pm for 7.30pm Following on from their highly successful and critically acclaimed productions – Will H Ogilvies Cheviot Hills and Tale O Tweed – Well Road Productions proudly presents their latest production. This is a powerful, amusing and moving evocation of a vanishing way Read more…
Is your bike sitting gathering dust in the shed, a flat tyre that you’ve always meant to fix, gears that don’t work smoothly? All things that stop you getting out on your bike enjoying the great cycling that there is around the valley. Well this might just be for you. Read more…
Andrew Mason is putting together a grant application on behalf of the Community Council to provide bursaries to support children in the Tweedsmuir CC area to attend training courses. This would initially be open to school-age residents but could be extended to adults in the future. The bursaries would go Read more…
It’s that time again! The Tweedsmuir Christmas Party is on 19th December at 2.30pm in the village hall, and the New Year Dance is on 2nd January at 8.30pm (also in the hall), tickets £5 on the door. We wish you all a very happy Christmas and prosperous New Year, Read more…