Coffee, Cake and Guided Tour
Our regular “font of all knowledge”, Peter Hennessy gave a fascinating tour through our iconic building today. The tour, which was attended by 25 people lasted around an hour and Peter talked through all the wonderful and quirky features of the Kirk and how Walter Douglas Campbell had work so hard to construct the building […]
Spring Clean 2024
We had a great turn out and very successful day! This despite a discouraging forecast and occasional downpours! Today’s volunteers were Helen, Peter, Rosie, Emma, Anne, Karen, Takki, Tom, Kathleen, Alistair, Lorna, Kenny, Lynda, Liz. 14 in all. As ever, we were very pleased to see Tom who comes all the way from Ayrshire every […]
GRVIII Sing in Harmony
As part of their tour of Scotland, St Conan’s was delighted to host GR-VIII Singing in Harmony. GR-VIII are a group of friends who enjoy singing songs from around the world in a cappella style and their tour was in aid of Midlands Air Ambulance Charity. The guys put on a fabulous performance in the Kirk and loved […]
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 […]
Heritage Open Day
Today we had our first Heritage Open Day where we shared our plans around community engagement and improving access and opportunity by opening up The Crypt, the Bruce Basement, installing better disabled toilets, adding new lighting, making the building more accessible and encouraging new community club activity as well as a programme of affordable events. […]
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 […]
