Archive for the ‘Dundee West Church’ Category

Harris Academy A concert has been arranged in Dundee West Church on Thursday 14th June at 7.30pm by pupils from Harris Academy and associated Primary Schools.  It includes the School Orchestra, School Wind Band, School Guitar Group, Choirs, Soloists, and Pipers. It will be a great evening and all local residents welcome!

Yesterday, following my raising concerns that the latest City Council new recycling kerbside collection pilot excluded the West End Ward (and two of the other seven wards in Dundee), I met with the City Council’s Environment Director and the Head of Environmental Protection regarding the matter. We had a useful discussion and I did obtain assurances [...]

Following a very productive meeting I attended with the City Council’s Environment Department and the Western Cemetery Association at the Vine this afternoon, and with thanks to all helpers, we got tomorrow’s West End Community Fayre set up at Dundee West Church. All looking good for the launch for the 2011 West End Christmas Week, our [...]

A superb Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning today – extremely well-supported by local residents!    Here’s a few pictures from the event : Coffee Morning in full swing! Fraser on the dishes! Some of the Friends of Magdalen Green team congratulate Gerry Lavery (front, right) on winning our Christmas Card competition

Just back from helping to set up for tomorrow’s Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning at Dundee West Church – all looking good – see below. The coffee morning starts at 10am – all welcome!

Last night, I participated in a very productive planning meeting for the Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning, taking place a week on Saturday at Dundee West Church. At the coffee morning, the Friends’ 2011 Christmas Card will be launched – designed by local resident Gerry Lavery, winner of the recent competition run by the Friends.   [...]

A thoroughly enjoyable and busy morning today at the Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning at Dundee West Church – here’s a few photos! Below : The calm before the storm … setting up last night! Above : Coffee Morning in full swing!       Above :  Guesss who was on dishes-drying duty!

Tonight, I had the pleasure of attending the first ever exhibition at the Roseangle Cafe Arts, fearuring  a collection by local printmaker Barbara Robertson. It was a great event and extermely well-attended.   It is really good to see the cafe at Dundee West Church going from strength to strength.

The Autumn Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning takes place at Dundee West Church, Perth Road, on Saturday (25th September) from 10am to 12 noon.   Don’t miss it!

Last week’s West End Christmas Week meeting took place at the new cafe facility at Dundee West Church – Roseangle Cafe Arts at The Bridge. It is a super new cafe for the West End and Rev Andrew Greaves & the congregation of Dundee West must be proud of what has been achieved. Emma, the [...]

Later today, I chaired the latest meeting of the West End Christmas Week group – and, for the first time, we met in the new (and rather superb) coffee shop at Dundee West Church. We had a very productive meeting, arranging a launch event on Saturday 20th November (a community fayre at Dundee West Church) [...]

As reported in today’s Courier, I was pleased to receive an assurance last night from the City Council’s Chief Executive that the Council’s Convener of Policy & Resources had now agreed that the Dundee Employment and Aftercare Project would be allowed to speak to councillors on Monday (see earlier article at http://tiny.cc/deap). The council’s ‘raid’ [...]

I was pleased to be invited to attend West End Boys Amateur Boxing Club at Dundee West Church today, along with Rev Andrew Greaves, to see the club’s training session being filmed by STV. The club is going from strength to strength with good turnouts to training sessions – and all ages too! The BBC [...]

The launch of the West End Christmas took place this morning with a Community Fayre at Dundee West Church – at which no less than eighteen community and local organisations took part. The turnout of local people was absolutely superb – a great start to Christmas Week! On Tuesday evening, the Christmas Concert, Lights Switch [...]

  This morning saw the autumn Friends of Magdalen Green Coffee Morning taking place in Dundee West Church, Perth Road. It was extremely well attended and I was the incomptent part of an otherwise slickly run scone-buttering and washing-up squad!   I also had the pleasure in introducing well-known local photographer Alex Coupar, who presented the [...]

As the latest meeting of the West End Christmas Week committee took place at Dundee West Church today, we had the opportunity to have our lunch, courtesy of the Dundee West Church Healthy Cooking Co-operative. Back in 2006, the Scottish Countryside Alliance Educational Trust, who assisted the project in its early days, said, “Through the [...]