After careful consideration and in light of the developing Coronavirus pandemic, Blantyre Community Committee has tonight with some regret, decided to cancel the planned Summer Gala Weekend. This follows yesterday’s announcement from the Scottish Government for bans on events with more than 500 people. We also felt given the current circumstances and the predicted escalation of […]
Category: Blantyre Summer Gala
Announcing Dates for 2020
We’re pleased to confirm the dates for this year’s Blantyre Summer Gala and Blantyre Festive Event 2020. Here’s the dates for your diaries. Summer – The Summer Gala long weekend will take place on Thursday 27th – Sunday 31st August 2020. Later in the year than usual, Taylor’s fair will be in town at McAnulty Public Park […]
Springing into Action for 2020
With the arrival of March, our winter break is over and we soon reconvene to begin organising Blantyre’s major outdoor public events for 2020. Despite fewer volunteers this year due to work commitments, we’re committing to once again hosting a free, spectacular Summer Gala and scheduled Festive Event for the enjoyment of everybody in Blantyre. […]
Gala Success & Thank yous
We did it! Blantyre Summer Gala festivities are now over. Held over an incredible 4 days between Thursday 13th and Sunday 16th June, it was our largest and most complex endeavour yet. It’s time for thank yous. To all the people who made this happen. A huge round of applause first to ourselves. We really […]
We are Blantyre Community Committee
Blantyre Community Committee We did it! Blantyre Summer Gala is now over for 2019! What an amazing time we’ve had organising and hosting a memorable 4 day event for everybody in this town. It’s been exhausting but all our supermen and women on the committee have had a blast. The set up problems, the last […]