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 […]
Storytelling: the Darker Side of Argyll
Over 40 people joined Patsy Dyer as she regaled them with tales from the darker side of Argyll with tales of local folklore, mystery, suspense and revenge! This was part of the Scottish International Storytelling Festival. Feedback from the crowd was very positive with some great suggestions as to the theme of the next event.
St Conan’s Cup 2024
This year we chose ‘Mysterious Boats’ as the competition subject. Each school was provided with an exciting introductory paragraph about a Captain, his crew and a strange boat making their way to St Conan’s Kirk. The children were asked to illustrate this and to tell what the Captain and crew found in St Conan’s. The […]
Drop in and Draw
Today we held our first Drop in and Draw day. With so much wonderful architecture and a surplice of amazing things to see in the Kirk, our budding artists were spoilt for choice as to what to draw. Our artists ranged in age, but all produced some amazing pictures, with some adding a splash of […]
Christmas Tree Festival 2023
Another amazing turnout for this years Christmas Tree Festival with over 70 trees from organisations and charities from all over Argyll! We had an amazing 7300 visitors over the three days of the festival who were catered for by the wonderful home bakers who managed to keep the supply of tea, coffee and of course […]
Pumpkin Festival 2023
As part of our work, supported the National Lottery Heritage Fund to create a program of community activities, events and festivals we had our first ever pumpkin festival in 2023. Our friends at the Ben Cruachan Inn kindly donated over 100 pumpkins that we were able to deliver to 2 local primary schools in Taynuilt and […]
