Tullynessle and Forbes 2010 Calendar
STOP PRESS!!
Our FIRST EVER fundraising CALENDAR is READY FOR SALE, priced £8.00 each.
All profits will go to the upkeep and use of our beautiful, newly refurbished hall.
A great collection of pictures has been chosen from those submitted by folk in the area, including two presently residing in Alaska!! It includes familiar scenes, faces and wildlife in and around Tullynessle and Forbes.
It is a good quality, A4 size when closed, and A3 when it's hung open from the top. It will comfortably fit into a standard sized, large brown envelope.
We hope you will find it lively, colourful, practical and appreciated by friends and family from near and far, and an ideal gift to send anywhere in the world in time for Christmas. So we hope you'll buy LOTS of them!!!
It is available from: Committee Members, Nicol's Outdoor Clothing, the Transport Museum, Heritage Centre, and IT Centre, all in Alford; Syllavethy Gallery and Corner Cuts in Montgarrie, and probably others....
HUGE thanks must go to everyone who helped to make this calendar possible, from the humblest snap shot entry to the professional wizardry of our IT specialist.
If you like the calendar when you see it, then let us know, and maybe we'll have another shot next year. Then those of you who were unlucky enough not to have a picture in this time, can have another another bash. Thank you all again.
For a preview click on the links below (clicking on the link will open a new window):
Craigievar Film Club
Tullynessle & Forbes Hall & Community Association have entered into a partnership with Craigievar Film Club. For the new season films will be shown fortnightly through the winter, usually on a Thursday night at 7.30pm, in the small meeting room of Tullyneslle Hall. Anyone is welcome to attend and under the terms of the licence there will be no charge. However anyone wishing to do so can join the film club and receive various benefits – advance booking for ceilidhs and special events, free use of the film club library and a sense of belonging! Any donations towards the cost of hiring the hall will also be gratefully accepted. At present there is no need to book – the small meeting room will comfortably sit thirty people – though this may change depending on popularity. The programme for this season is posted on the Hall noticeboard. To contact the film club the email address is craigievarfilmclub2007@yahoo.co.uk.
WE DID IT - The keys handover
On Monday 1st September 2008 the Hall Committee took delivery of the keys to the renovated Hall. Thousands of hours – literally – of planning, form-filling, negotiating, discussing and emotional turmoil are behind us; much of the work is complete but the project is not yet over. The full completion certificate still has to be granted and now the task of fundraising for internal furnishings and equipment begins. See The Hall page (click on the link on the left of screen) for pictures of the new hall.
Tullynessle & Forbes Hall & Community Association with Stewart Naysmith (of William Lippe, Architects) fourth from right, and James Lovie (James Lovie Construction Ltd.) first right.
Wood burning boiler installed – with Scottish Co-operative’s help.
The UK’s greenest supermarket group has stepped in with a vital last-minute £9,500 donation to Tullynessle and Forbes’ community hall to allow the installation of an eco-friendly heating system which will significantly reduce the hall’s carbon footprint.
“With The Scottish Co-operative’s generous grant we can install a sustainable and manageable heating source that literally does not cost the earth,” said Patty Cahill, chairperson of the Tullynessle and Forbes Community Association.
A new heating system is required as part of a major refurbishment of the much-used hall which is more than fifty years old. The community has raised £450,000 to carry out all the work.
“Our new carbon neutral Biomass wood pellet heating system will reduce our carbon output by 200 tonnes during the 15-years life of the boiler and running costs will be cheaper than a traditional oil fired heating system,” added Patty.
Scottish Co-operative’s local manager Henry Hawthorne with Committee Chair Patty Cahill and the new wood pellet boiler.
The Scottish Co-operative responded to a last minute plea from the community for help when an expected award from another benefactor was delayed, putting funding of £14,400 from the Scottish Community and Household Renewable Initiative (SCHRI) on the line as it was conditional on some match-funding from non-public sources.
“As building work was already underway on the community hall we needed a quick injection of money otherwise we would have had to go ahead with a traditional system, which has cheaper installation costs than our favoured sustainable wood pellet system, but does not offer the long term benefits,” explained Patty.
“We contacted The Co-operative because of its award-winning initiatives on climate change issues and its reputation for supporting local communities. The Scottish Co-operative proved to be our white knight, immediately awarding us the £9,500 we needed to secure our SCHRI funding and buy the Biomass system.”
Scottish Co-operative secretary Gerard Hill said: “As a community retailer with a long track record in using renewable energy, we are delighted to help the Tullynessle and Forbes community cut its carbon dioxide emissions. By installing this sustainable heating system, the hall association is highlighting the climate change issue while setting an excellent example to other community organisations, schools, businesses and homes in the area. We hope this will inspire wider efforts to reduce the whole community’s carbon footprint.”
New constitution adopted.
To view the constitution of the Tullynessle and Forbes Hall and Community Association click on the link below. This will open the document in a new window.
Tullynessle and Forbes Public Hall online shop.
We have a webshop, every time you shop online at over 100 leading retailers (including Marks & Spencer, Mothercare, B&Q and Tesco) you'll automatically earn some money for us! You don't pay anything extra, so please try to use it whenever you can. Visit our webshop by clicking the link below.