We are delighted to receive notification that our application to Scotland Loves Local for £4,050 has been successful. Monies will be used to provide detailed cartography maps in each of our three villages and will include key points of historical, ecological & natural interest.

We have created our last weekly Members Bulletin for this year - A Bumper Festive Finale, with good news and Season Greetings to all our valued members! Wishing all our Twitter followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year too. 😊🎄🎅

Its back to work for the Trust after the festive period and in the first edition of our Members Bulletin for 2021, we are delighted to be introducing our new look website - New Year, New website! Happy New Year to our Twitter followers. Take a peak inside for other Trust news ➡️

Our new website has the facility to sign up online and become a member of the Trust. All our members receive our weekly bulletin directly, so if you would like to receive a copy this way, please do join us. Membership is free and its a great way to support the work we do. 😊

We love to be able to promote our great local talent, and in this weeks Members Bulletin we have news of two local history books written by Keir resident, Ian Wilson. Take a peek inside for details... 🤓📙

After 3 months of operation, our Community Hydro scheme has generated 49,100 units of electricity, earning us £5,900 to go towards other community projects. All made possible with funding we received from SP Energy Networks and the #GreenEconomyFund. 👍 Full details on our website.

Following a meeting with South of Scotland Enterprise this week, the Trust has been appointed a SOSE community advisor, who will advise and assist with our key projects: Penpont - Thornhill Path, Community Cafe, Transport and Affordable Housing. We look forward to connecting further with SOSE.

D&G author Ian Barr and Esther Tacke and Warren Sanders of Galloway Cycling Holidays, have collaborated to combine literature, activity & tourism and created a cycle route celebrating our local inventor of the bicycle, gratefully included on our KPT Hub ➡️ kptcommunityhub.com/home/news/all_0

Our very own Tracks and Trails group member Caroline Buck, helping to challenge stereotypes in active travel.

We are delighted to be working in collaboration with Cycling Scotland in offering free family friendly cycling sessions next month. We are able to offer a professional cycling tutor for 6 family sessions as part of their - and our - initiative to get families cycling. 🚴🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️

Great news for our Community Hub Action Team (CHAT) who recently heard they have been awarded £28,284 for the Community Cafe project. Its full steam ahead now to get our community enterprise up and running and we hope to have the cafe open by early summer.

We are currently seeking opinion on the types of dishes, services and activities our communities would like to see provided, in our soon to open, Three Villages community cafe in Penpont. If you would like to have your say, please follow the link: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

We recently had Craig Hardie from Cycling Scotland provide free family friendly cycling sessions at Penpont School. It was a great opportunity for a photo with some of the participants, next to our newly installed bike maintenance stand funded by Cycling Friendly Communities. 🚴‍♂️

A very generous donation of old postcards and school photographs this week from Gill Pearcey in Dumfries. Gill's late husband Alan was an avid collector over many years of old images of D&G villages and we received part of Alan's collection covering our KPT area. Thankyou Gill 🤗

HUGE thanks to all those in our communities who voted on their favourite cafe logo recently, for our soon to open Three Villages community run cafe in Penpont. It was a close call with the winner - Logo 2 Sugar Cubes - just three votes ahead.

Great wee promotional video from our friends at Galloway Cycling Holidays for the local new cycle route called 'The Kirkpatrick Loop'. The loop is named after the inventor of the bicycle, Kirkpatrick Macmillan who came from Keir Mill. Further details ▶️ gallowaycycling.com/the-bicycle-in…

We have launched our e-bike survey, to support our application for funding through Cycling Scotland to purchase e-bikes for our three villages. This is a great opportunity to encourage cycling throughout our area. Survey available on the following link: docs.google.com/forms/d/1zEB7C…

A massive THANKYOU to Business Micros (part of Forterro), Penpont, who have very generously donated two whisky barrels and arranged to have them planted, for our new cycle area next to our community cafe garden. We can't wait to see them planted up and looking 'blooming' lovely. Thankyou! ☺️

We are looking for an enthusiastic person able to cook and organise the day to day kitchen tasks, in our soon to open community café. There will also be the opportunity to expand the role into management.   For full job description & application form, email [email protected]

Our Tracks & Trails group were delighted that the first of two interpretation boards on the Keir to Tynron path was put in place this week. The board has a topographic panel on it pointing out the hills in the distance, with information on flora and fauna you may see in the area.