As the summer holidays draw to a close, families attending the Bairn Banter group take a moment to reflect and reminisce about the Saturday mornings spent with family and friends, and the fun experiences had here in Carsphairn this summer. 

Dumfries and Galloway Council have begun the Statutory Consultation process necessary to close Dalry Secondary School and are holding a meeting on Monday 7th September at 6pm in Dalry School to explain their closure proposal.

The Glenkens Hub website is looking for photographers to help show off how great it is to live here.

Glaisters Bridge Community Woodland, near Corsock, is a result of an innovative partnership between the landowner, Foresight Group, and the community.

Saturday 29th August is the Great Corsock Show - an event now established as a Galloway institution and open to all.

The community council have now called a public meeting on 28th August to gauge public support for development of Parton Kirk.

After the record-breaking success of last year, this year's organisers are hoping they can match, if not exceed, the 353 entries at the upcoming show on 29th August 2026.

The event formed part of a new programme of work at Glaisters Bridge, an innovative site where landowner Foresight Group, supported by EJD Forestry is working with a range of community groups to add local value.

Following the success of the first Glenkens Skills and Jobs Fair in September 2025, we are delighted to announce that the event is to be held again on Thursday 24 September at Dalry Secondary School.

Glenkens Food Month has been held each September since 2019.

The decision by Dumfries and Galloway Council to proceed with a formal consultation on the proposed closure of Dalry Secondary School has prompted renewed discussion about the future of rural education across the Glenkens.

The Dumfries & Galloway Tree Planting Grant Scheme is now open for applications. This supports native tree planting across the region with grants of up to £1,000. Recipients last year varied from farmers and landowners through to community groups and schools, all of whom benefitted from the flexible and easy scheme to make their small scale tree planting ambitions come true!

British Regional Transport Association (BRTA) is campaigning to re-open the 73 mile rail link between Dumfries and Stranraer, closed since 1965.

Funding has now been secured from the Glenkens & District Community Fund to build on existing work, supporting a further series of public events on the site and to contribute towards the establishment of a new car park.

The Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere features alongside the UK’s 61 other UNESCO sites on an updated map published by the UK National Commission for UNESCO.

July's Citizen Science talk was fully booked with gardeners from the Glenkens and the wider area coming together in Kirkpatrick Durham Village Hall to learn how to make their gardens into havens for wildlife.

Over recent months, the bairns of the Carsphairn children’s group, Bairn Banter have enjoyed a variety of different sessions involving a very equine theme. 

The Galloway & Southern Ayrshire Biosphere (GSAB) Partnership has announced its largest ever gathering will take place on Wednesday 29th July in Thornhill.

The theme for the day turned out to be ‘Connections, Past and Present’. Long may those connections hold firm.