Party-time!! ….or maybe a picnic or a sports day or a barbecue???
If you have any ideas for a village event in June when we all have an extra public holiday because of the Jubilee, please come to a short meeting in the village hall on Sunday 20th March at 12 noon. If you can’t make it, please send your ideas via the contact form below.
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Gifford Film Club Restarting with The Truffle Hunters
Gifford Film Club is back
£20 for 8 films or £5 payable at the door
First film is 11 March – The Truffle Hunters
Gifford Village Hall 8pm (doors open 7.30)
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of old men hunt for the rare
and expensive white Alba truffle. They’re guided by a secret culture and training as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly trained dogs.
The demand for white truffles increases year after year and with the lack of young people taking up the mantle, the truffle hunters’ secrets are more coveted than ever
Full program below
Garvald Village Hall Opportunity
Garvald Village Hall Committee
It was great to see so many Garvald village residents gather at the event to celebrate Christmas both outside and inside the village hall.
As you know the hall provides a wonderful communal resource for all of us and also for those beyond the village who can book it for special occasions.
The hall is managed and maintained by a committee of volunteers on behalf of the trustees. Currently there are six on the committee but there is scope for a few more. It would be great if others joined – new residents in the village are very welcome indeed. Meetings take place every two months with any necessary actions normally being relatively simple and not onerous.
If you are interested in joining the committee please get in touch with Gary McGregor via the enquiry form below
Christmas Eve Service
There will be a service in Garvald Church at 6 pm on Christmas Eve and a Watchnight service in Morham Church at 11.30 pm.
All your favourite carols – with a mask on!
Even Bigger thank you
Thanks to some very generous donations and extra soup money, the total amount raised for Edinburgh Royal ICU at the Garvald Christmas Social has risen to £1119.82. That’s fabulous! Thanks to everyone.
Big Thank You
A HUGE thank you to everyone who contributed to the Christmas Social Event on Sunday. We raised a massive £778.10 for Edinburgh Royal ICU and had a good bit of chat at the same time.
Thanks to the Community Council for funding the purchase of the gazebo (now available for anyone in the community to borrow for a small fee) and the lights. Admittedly the solar-powered lights are not very bright, but the rechargeable strip light is better.
Thanks to all the artists for their beautiful art, to Jimmie and Murray Thomson for installing the art-boards and to Niall and Sarah Donaldson for storing the art boards, and transporting them by forklift truck to the hall!
Thanks to Liz for making all that delicious soup and juggling trays of sausage rolls and mince pies in the kitchen. Thanks to Elaine and Norma for sterling work on the raffle – there may be a raffle prize making its way to you in the near future. Thanks to Anne and Phillip for creating a little taste of a continental Christmas with their mulled wine stall, and thanks to our fabulous young musicians and DJs ( and their roadies.)
So that’s it for another year – this is the-one-who-was-running-around-like-a-headless-chicken signing off.
Happy Christmas!
Christmas Social on 5th December
Fingers crossed that Storm Arwen will not disrupt our Christmas Social on Sunday 5th December – 4.30pm at the Village Hall.
Try and remember to hand in your soup money to Anne White at the Old School by Friday (£3 per adult
Or you can fill in the contact form below
All offers of raffle prizes gratefully received – either hand in to Elaine McMillan at Whitelaws or bring along to the Village Hall on the day.
And remember to bring your wonderful artistic contributions to the Village Hall on Saturday 4th December between 10 am and 12 noon – chocolate Santas will be available!
Sunday 5th December from 4.30 pm – 6.30 pm at the Village Hall.
£3 per adult – Please let Anne White at The Old School know how many are coming from your family and hand over your soup money to her in advance to guarantee enough sausage rolls.
Raffle prizes can be handed in to Elaine McMillan at Whitelaws whenever you like.
And for the creative kids out there, Saturday 4th December between 10 am and 12 noon is when to bring your artwork to the Village Hall.
Christmas is coming!!
A Garvald Village Christmas
Continuing the tradition which we started last year, there will be an outdoor Christmas Social event on
Sunday 5th December between 4.30 pm and 6.30 pm
- Start off with a wander through the Village Hall admiring the artwork on display…..see below….
- Buy loads of tickets for the Christmas raffle in aid of Edinburgh Royal Infirmary ICU
- Collect your soup and sausage roll from the kitchen – a bargain at £3 per adult
- Stroll out to the orchard to eat them and sit under the solar-powered fairy lights ( we’re doing our bit for the climate!) while listening to music provided by the youngsters.
- They’ll be playing in our fancy new gazebo
- Enjoy a glass of mulled wine, a mince pie and a good chat
- Wear your Santa hats, antlers, fairy lights, tinsel and wrap up warm
- Celebrate outrageously when you win some bubble-bath
- And if that’s not enough you can even wind up with a visit to the Garvald Inn
It would be ideal to get some numbers in advance. Please put your soup money in an envelope and deliver to Anne at The Old School with a note of how many in your family group are coming. PLEASE try to let us know by 3rd December. Or else complete the contact form on the website.
Now about that artwork – we have contacted some local artists who will put up some art……but we would like as many children/fun-loving adults as possible to paint/draw/build with Lego/construct with junk/write a poem/make a Christmas card – whatever you like – and bring it to the hall on 4th December between 10 am and 12 noon . Every artist will be rewarded with a chocolate Santa…..irresistible!