St John’s Town of Dalry (Dalry)
QUICK LINKS
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Outside wall of Dalry Town Hall, Ayr Road/Main Street.
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Public Telephone Box, on the corner of Main Street and Underhill, Dalry
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Community Cafe
📍 Dalry Town Hall
🗓️ Saturdays, monthly, 10am-1pm.
☕ Soup and home baking. Pay what you can (donations go to charity). For more information and upcoming dates, see their Facebook page.
Dalry Good Neighbours Club
📍 Glenkens Community Centre, Dalry.
🗓️ Tuesdays 2pm - 4pm
☕ Why not come along and join in the fun have a chat and a cuppa, make new friends and catch up with old ones.
☎️ For more information, contact Michelle on 07795 613 148.
Dalry Library Warm Space
📍 Dalry Library, Main Street, Main Street, St John's Town of Dalry, DG7 3UP
🗓️ Tuesdays 2pm to 5pm and Fridays 12noon to 5pm.
Warm space run by Dumfries & Galloway Council.
☎️ Call: 030 33 33 3004
✉️ Email: yourlibrary@dumgal.gov.uk.
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Dalry Kindness Cupboard
Open 24 hrs/day for free food & staples in the garden of Dalry Library.
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Graham West ☎️ 01644 430 503
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Dalry Post Office
📍 17-19 Main Street, Dalry, Castle Douglas, DG7 3UP
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🔋Kirkland Street Car Park, St John's Town of Dalry, DG7 3UX.
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♻️ Kirkland Street Car Park
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Come and join Whirligig, Ruth Morris, Gavin Marwick and Phil Alexander in our popular Land Notes Festival.
Join Angela Miller & Andy Kaye from Talking Galloway for a gentle stroll up local landmark Waterside Hill.
A session of traditional tunes and songs. Bring your voice or instrument and join in a supportive gathering of musicians. Or just come an listen!
Galloway Shorts- Community Screenings
Admission £1 per adult, children under 16 free. All proceeds towards the refurbishment of the Town Hall kitchen.
A famous film director returns home to his native village in Sicily drawn by the news of the death of his old friend and boyhood mentor, the projectionist at the Cinema Paradiso, the social centre of the village.
Dalry Town Hall Producers and Makers Market
General Monthly Meeting to discuss Dalry Town Hall matters.
Come along and either listen to or join in with a traditional Scottish Folk Session.
Filmmaker Baz Luhrmann presents an intimate and cinematic portrait of one of the greatest performers of all time based on archival footage and audio recordings shown here largely for the first time.
Come along to see what jobs and opportunities are available in the Glenkens.
FREE event
When Helen's beloved father dies, she is overtaken by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together.
Dalry Town Hall Producers and Makers Market
Session 2 of 5 – Researching the Past
General Monthly Meeting to discuss Dalry Town Hall matters.
A terrifically warm, generous film about real-life activist John Davidson, who is from Galashiels in the Scottish Borders and has Tourette syndrome, with its tics, compulsive behaviour patterns and random obscene shouts.
These seasonal guided walks will find and identify our wonderful local birds by sight and sound, providing useful birdwatching tips for beginners and information on the behaviour and ecology of the species encountered.
Session 5 of 5 – Shaping the Future
General Monthly Meeting to discuss Dalry Town Hall matters.
Hamnet is as valid a tale of the relationship between him and his wife as any other while they try to make sense of their son’s death.
Dalry Town Hall Producers and Makers Market
Dermot and Elvis are a couple of guys from Northern Ireland who run a record shop dealing in old-school vinyl, but they are terrorised by their mean landlord, Sadie, who owns the lease and just wants them out.
Tick off your Xmas list with quality handmade gifts!
Had a long day? Feeling stressed? Feeling hot and bothered? Come along to this informal group and meet new, or old, like-minded folk.
Molly’s Snack & Go, nestled just out side Dalry, we serve hearty filled rolls to sweet treats.
Situated in picturesque St John's Town of Dalry in the heart of the Glenkens, Dalry Angling Association offers opportunities for visitors and Glenkens residents to fish the local Water of Ken, rivers and lochs.
Little Farm Childminding is located just outside of Dalry. My aim is to provide a flexible and inclusive setting for all children and families in the area.
This summer, a new international exchange will link the Glenkens with Sülz in Cologne, Germany, exploring what keeps volunteers showing up and how shared spaces shape community life.
Did you know Glenkens residents have the ability to access to some fantastic fishing for amazingly reasonable prices?
The survey outlines a number of options for the school and incorporates ideas received during the two consultation days.
The Pollinators Project continues into 2026 with a celebration of orchards! Come and join in the Wassail at Dalry Library Micro-Orchard, on 1st February - also traditionally Imbolc marking the end of the winter.
Dumfries and Galloway Council have notified residents of two road closures in coming weeks.
The Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere Partnership has announced that it will be running its popular Biosphere Guide Training Course again in 2025, following previous years’ success.
Dalry's Local Place Plan, developed in conjunction with residents, local businesses and stakeholders, was today formally adopted by Dumfries and Galloway Council at a meeting of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee in November 2024.
The Dalry Local Place Plan has been drawn up on behalf of Dalry Community Council, and aims to articulate the community's wishes for future development of the settlement and wider area, including the retention and improvement of existing facilities, housing and services, and views on land use. Closing date: 30th September 2024.
Dalry Community Council are very pleased to announce the news of an additional defibrillator to the village.
Dumfries & Galloway hosts a significant proportion of the United Kingdom’s commercial woodland creation schemes. With discussion ongoing on the national stage regarding land use change, the ‘Woodlands Plus’ project aims to add local value - employment, biodiversity or public access - to three forestry sites in the region.
Built in the late 19th century as a school, the Glenkens Community Centre in St John’s Town of Dalry has weathered challenges, closures, and transformations. Discover its rich history, dedicated volunteers, and pivotal role in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway.
From the 4th of June the Glenkens Community Shop in Dalry will be opening on Tuesday evenings from 6-8pm during the summer.
In light of the recent press coverage of cost per pupil for Dalry Secondary, the school’s Parent Council felt it was important to give some balance to the figure; a figure which it is felt is not entirely accurate, and which has been taken out of context.
The Galloway Food Hub welcomed the BBC Scotland's Farming and Nature programme Landward behind the scenes for their packing day in early April.
Grant Application Forms will be available to collect from the Shop from this week (Monday 15th April 2024).
Over the past few months communities across the Glenkens have been galvanised into action as a result of the proposed recommendation by D&G Education Department to mothball Dalry Secondary.
United community action has successfully halted Council plans to mothball Dalry Secondary School without consultation.
Call for Dumfries and Galloway Council Elected Members to vote in favour of the Motion from Dougie Campbell and Andy McFarlane calling for an immediate cessation of the mothballing of secondary schools and for the development of a region-wide mothballing policy that takes account of the socio-economic implications of such a decision.
Dalry's Multi-Use Games Area (MUGA) could be a step closer to being brought back into use thanks to the efforts of volunteers from the Dalry Community Properties Trust (DCPT).
Call for Dumfries and Galloway Council Elected Members to vote in favour of the Urgent Motion calling for an immediate moratorium on the mothballing policy for schools and for community impact to be embedded in a future mothballing policy.
The accelerated process being followed by Dumfries and Galloway Council Education Department to mothball Dalry Secondary School without any considerations of the short, medium and longer term impacts on the wider Glenkens community has been highlighted by the Glenkens & District Community Action Plan Steering Group.
Council officials defy local opinion. Education officials are to ignore the results of a recent public consultation and are recommending that Dalry Secondary School should be mothballed after the summer holidays.
A newly-registered childminder is up and running and set to welcome the first children into her business in the Glenkens thanks to an innovative campaign to recruit new childminders in rural areas.
There has been a lot of creativity at the Glenkens Youth Group over the past few months. The members often choose to paint or draw, and they are a very talented group. The space is always filled with music, with their own playlist setting the scene. An informal sing-a-long is a common occurrence!
The results of the survey carried out from 11th December - 8th January have been published ahead of the meeting due to take place on Monday 29th January.
Dalry Community Properties Trust aims to raise funds to enable the Multi Use Games Area (MUGA) in Dalry to be opened up again.
Local schools affect all our communities in a myriad of ways, from providing a focus for community cohesion, to engendering the feeling that our communities are thriving and have a bright future. This survey is not just for parents, but for everyone in the Glenkens!
Organisers of an Alzheimer and Dementia Fundraiser on behalf of Alzheimer Scotland (SCO22315) are looking for donations of raffle prizes and volunteer drivers for the event.
Saturday 16th September is a special day for anyone interested in the local heritage and history of Galloway, with five heritage offerings in the Ken/Dee valley coming together to celebrate a community-led approach to local history and records.
This event on 18th September, delivered in partnership between the Galloway Glens Scheme and Dumfries Archival Mapping Project (DAMP), explores what pre-ordnance survey maps can tell us about what habitats used to be where and when, using four expert speakers to consider ‘Woodlands’, ‘Bogs’, Moths’ and ‘Meadows’ in Galloway in the 1700s.