News & Events
Dumfries Friends New Year Party
Our New Year party in full swing at St Georges on 10 January 2018 with our friends from Summerhill Community Centre. Big thanks to Bill and Neil from 'The Virginians' who provided the musical entertainment and well done to David and Paddy for winning the quiz. Age is no barrier to fun at Food Train Friends and dancing improves our balance - click on attached ageing-better link below for more info
https://www.ageing-better.org.uk/news/striking-right-balance/
JMA Trust - donation to Food Train Friends
We were delighted to received a donation of £2000 recently from the JMA Trust for our work at Food Train Friends in reducing loneliness and social isolation in local older people.
The donation will be put to good use. http://jmatrust.com
Thank you to all our supporters who donated prizes for our Christmas Raffle.
We are so pleased to have raised £330 in our Christmas raffle and we were overwhelmed by the support of local businesses. All the generous gifts help us to raise money for items such as; uniforms, shop boxes and a new van. Thanks to Paul at Green Aspirations who donated a gift voucher, please check out their website to see all the exciting workshops they run in the woods! https://www.greenaspirationsscotland.co.uk/. Thank you also to Vicky Cottrell for all the beautiful glasswork she donated to us http://www.vickycottrell.co.uk/, also to Highland Gate Restaurant for the gift voucher https://www.highlandgatepubkildean.co.uk/. We would like to thank our partner Sainsburys for the gift voucher they donated to us, as well as all the other support they have given us over the year! Last but not least thank you to our enthusiastic volunteers who sold and bought tickets for us!
