The CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL 2025!
Nearly time for this year’s Christmas Tree Festival. It’s the 10th Anniversary and it looks like we will have lots to celebrate: the biggest tree entry to date, more musical acts than ever and Santa has granted us an Elfsclusive! See the poster below and also the table with our musical acts. Decorating and planning […]
Pumpkins Galore!
Last night saw our third Pumpkin festival at St Conan’s and this was even more spectular than last year. With a new lighting scheme we were able to transform the Kirk into a wonderful spooky place to display all the amazing pumpkins. The pumpkins, donated by our good friends at the Ben Cruachan Inn and […]
Heritage Open Day
Today, despite the best efforts of Storm Amy, saw us open the Kirk for our annual Heritage Day. The programme included: Displays and tours explaining the benefits the new grant from the National Lottery Heritage Fund will bring Our new exhibition featuring Princess Louise and her work as an artist A fun animation demo A […]
Next Years Community Singing Dates
After the wonderful success of our programme of Community Singing this year, we are delighted that Stephen Williams has agreed to hold another five events next year (once the Kirk has warmed up after Winter!) Here are the dates for your diaries! The themes for each event shall be announced a week or so before […]
Popular Anthems Conclude 2025’s Community Singing
What a fantastic way to round off this season’s series of Community Singing in St Conan’s! Stephen Williams led everyone through a rousing list of well-known and loved songs. With Miriam Harden on piano and wonderful solo singing and harmonising, the kirk positively pulsed with musical energy! 500 Miles, Sweet Caroline, Build me up Buttercup, […]
Park Wins the St Conan’s Cup 2025!
Each spring since 2014, local primary schools have been invited to take part in this art competition. The Cup is awarded to the school attended by the winner. Participating primary schools this year were: Dalmally, Lochnell, Taynuilt, Park, St Columba’s and Rockfield. We received some 250 individual entries! In line with our aim of sharing […]
Dalmally Primary Planting Projects
Today the Garden & Grounds Volunteer Group were very pleased to welcome a party of 10 young people and 3 staff members from Dalmally Primary School. At the beginning of the year we asked the School to help us with two projects. We wanted some attractive climbers to screen off the oil tank and bins […]
Songs from Around the World – Community Singing
Yet another fabulous afternoon of song and laughter at St Conan’s, led again by Stephen Williams with Miriam Harden accompanying on Piano. As well as a selection of songs from around the world, we were also treated to Alfie Robertson who showed us his skill on the bagpipes! The theme for today as Songs from […]
Christmas Tree Festival ’24
Wow! What an amazing three days! This year we saw a record breaking 75 trees entered into the festival, from charities, schools, individuals and local businesses. The level of creativity was astounding, with trees made from lamp shades, recycled rubbish and exercise balls plus so much more. Darth Vader from Star Wars also made an […]
Pumpkin Festival 2024
Saturday saw the Kirk holding it’s Pumpkin Festival for the second year. Once again, the pumpkins were kindly donated by our friends at The Ben Cruachan Inn and supplied directly to Dalmally and Taynuilt primary schools by JM Breckenridge. The children unleased their spooky creativity and we had some fabulous carvings this year! Over 300 […]
