Colvend Community

The website of Colvend & Southwick Community Council

Colvend Community

 

Welcome to the Colvend Website

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This website is for everybody in the area served by Colvend and Southwick Community Council. It is a source of information for locals and visitors alike. Here you will find items of local interest, what's on, things to do, places to visit and details of local businesses.  Scroll down for more information or use the links to either side of this screen.

 

The website is run by volunteers within the community.  If you would like to help send a message by following the contact us link under Main Menu on the left.

 

 

 

Latest - May 2012

During May a number of exciting events are taking place in Colvend Hall:  concerts by the pupils of Colvend Primary School and the Tim Kliphuis Trio, a performance by the Wee Theatre Company plus an art exhibition under the upsides of Spring Fling by Phillipa Sinclair.  More details of all of these in the What's On section on the left


Good News! From the 1st April 2012 a new bus time table comes into operation - there are more buses on a Saturday and a Sunday service has been resumed.  Click here for more information http://www.colvendcommunity.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=33&Itemid=46

 

 

 

The Community Council Area

 

The Council area is bounded by the beautiful Solway Firth coastline to the south and small, but rugged, forested hills to the north. The A710 main road from Dumfries to Dalbeattie traverses the area. The whole of the coast is within The East Stewartry Coast National Scenic area.

 

The principal centres within the community are:

 

Barnbarroch

Colvend

Kippford

Mainsriddle

Rockcliffe

Sandyhills

Southwick

 

See more information about each of these locations simply by clicking on the place name.

Photographs, articles and what's on announcements for this website Colvend Community are welcome. Go to 'Your Input' in the Main Menu for details of how to send information.

For information on Community Council meetings follow the links on the left

 

 

 
 

User Contributions

You have to register to view or contribute to the forum.  Click on register and provide your name, a user name, email adress and password.  Your email details are not used for any purpose other to satisfy the registration requirements.

 

Photographs and articles are also welcome.  Request this facility by sending an email via "contact us" and you willl be assigned author status allowing you to upload photographs and aticles directly to the website.  As a safeguard however they will not be seen by users of the website until authorised by an administrator. 

 

We look forward to hearing from you. 

 

If you have any queries or difficulties simply email "contact us".
 

Clubs and Societies

We welcome items of interest about your club/society to publish on the website.

This includes articles and your photos.

In this way we can build a lively informative website to keep our community informed as to what is going on locally.

You can either register with the site and contribute directly yourself, or email your articles and photos to us for publication.