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MEMBERS’ CENTRE AND FRIENDS’ GROUP EVENTS SPRING/SUMMER 2019 Joining a centre or group is a great way to get more out of your membership and learn more about the work of the Trust. All groups also raise vital funds for Trust places and projects across the country. Please note that most groups charge a small annual membership subscription, separate to your Trust membership. The groups host a range of lectures, outings, social events and tours for their members throughout the year. For more information please contact each group directly. ABERDEEN AND DISTRICT MEMBERS’ FRIENDS OF ALLOA TOWER (SC017733) AYRSHIRE MEMBERS’ CENTRE (SC000387) CENTRE (SC000109) Isobel Munro, Chairperson John Rattenbury, Chairman Tel: 01259 762889 Judith Falconer, Programme Secretary Tel: 01292 264344 Email: Email: [email protected] Tel: 01224 938150 [email protected] Email: [email protected] Our talks will be held in the Education The Friends of Alloa Tower support the Pavilion at Burns Cottage in Alloway. Arrive at Booking is essential for events marked * property and arrange a number of events. 7pm for tea/coffee, followed by the talk at A day excursion in early May 2019 to V&A Please contact Isobel Munro for further 7.30pm (lasting an hour or so). All visitors are Dundee is proposed and the annual holiday details. welcome. Any queries, contact John on 01292 in May/June will be in Dumfries & Galloway. 264344. ANGUS MEMBERS’ CENTRE (SC024891) Joyce Cooper, Membership Secretary Thursday 21 March: ‘Burns in Glasgow’ – talk NORTH EAST ABERDEENSHIRE MEMBERS’ Tel: 01674 676783 by Chris Waddell CENTRE (SC024227) Email: [email protected] Margaret Alexander, Chairperson BANFF & MORAY MEMBERS’ CENTRE All afternoon talks are held in the Guide Hall, (SC024693) Tel: 01651 872659 Myre car park, Forfar at 2.30pm. Talks are Stuart MacKenzie, Secretary Email: [email protected] open to everyone, not just members of the Tel: 01343 843248 National Trust for Scotland. The £4 Email: [email protected] Events are open to members and non- admission charge includes light members. Booking is essential for events refreshments after the meeting. marked * and there is priority booking for Monday 25 March: Launch of photography members as numbers may be limited. Other competition with 4 age groups. Entries can be events are free to members and £3 for non- Sunday 19 May, 1.30–3.30pm: Members’ submitted online. The closing date is 30 members. Centre spring plant sale at the House of Dun October. Wednesday 17 April, 7.30pm: AGM at Fyvie ARDUAINE FRIENDS Thursday 11 April: AGM and spring lunch at Castle followed by a talk by Douglas Harper Rachel Ross, Secretary/Treasurer the Mansefield Hotel, Elgin, with speaker – ‘Suspension bridges designed and Tel: 01852 200233 Stuart Brooks (Head of Natural Heritage constructed around the world during the Email: [email protected] Conservation [Policy]) late 19th century by the Aberdeenshire-born brothers John and Hugh Harper’. Free to For more information on the Arduaine members; visitors £2. Light refreshments Friday 17–Monday 20 May: 3-day coach trip Friends, contact Rachel Ross or call Arduaine available. to East Lothian visiting Hopetoun House, Garden on 01852 200366. Preston Mill, Newhailes House, Arniston May: Bring-and-Buy plant sale (details TBC) House, National Mining Museum, John Muir’s Further events for the rest of the year will ARGYLL MEMBERS’ GROUP (SC024786) Birthplace, gardens and more include garden and museum visits as well as Donald Shell, Secretary tours, concerts and talks. Details will be Tel: 01631 562688 Wednesday 19 June: Day trip to the announced when confirmed. Email: [email protected] Highland Museum of Childhood, Strathpeffer Please contact Donald Shell for more details and then to Dunrobin Castle, with high tea in on upcoming events. Tulloch Castle Hotel, Dingwall Saturday 6 July, 10am–noon: Coffee FRIENDS OF BROUGHTON HOUSE & EAST FIFE MEMBERS’ CENTRE (SC024846) morning with stalls and a raffle in Forres GARDEN (SC012686) Barbara Fotheringham, Programme Co- Town Hall; entry £2 Mike Duguid, Chairman ordinator Tel: 01557 860040 Tel: 01333 310153 Wednesday 21 August: Visit to Pitlochry Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] Festival Theatre to see Blonde Bombshells of 1943 musical Gwen Shaw JP, Hon Secretary Please check our website for updates: nts- Tel: 01557 330239 efmc.org.uk Saturday 31 August, 2–4pm: Tea and Email: [email protected] treasure (with stalls and a raffle) at Forres WEST FIFE MEMBERS’ GROUP (SC025426) Town Hall; entry £2 All events are held at Broughton House, 12 Fiona Moore, Chairman High Street, Kirkcudbright. Please book Tel: 01383 626009 Sunday 15 September: Book fair at Brodie tickets on 01557 330437 or email Email: [email protected] Castle (more information to follow) [email protected] to avoid disappointment. Talks are £5 for Friends; £6 Alison Henderson, Secretary Friday 4 October: Quiz night with raffle at for visitors. Tel: 01383 737233 Miltonduff Hall – tables of 6 people; £10 per Email: [email protected] person. Sandwiches and refreshments included; soft drinks and wine can be CAMBRIDGE FRIENDS OF THE NTS Tuesday 16 April, 7.30pm: Annual General purchased. Jim Stewart, Chairman Meeting in the Abbey Church Hall, Donald Douglas, Membership Secretary Dunfermline followed by a talk by Richard Thursday 7 November: Autumn lunch and Tel: 01223 245357 or 07889 657590 Williams (General Manager, Glasgow) – ‘The annual grand prize draw at Mansefield Email: [email protected] Big Box, Protecting and Conserving the Hill Hotel, Elgin, with a guest speaker. We’ll House’ All talks are held at Newnham College, also announce the photo competition where there is usually ample parking results. Monday 13 May: Outing to the V&A nearby. The ticket price is £7 if pre-booked Dundee and Kellie Castle or £8 on the door. Arrive at 7.30pm for wine Visit to Pitlochry Wednesday 4 December: and conversation, followed by the talk at Tuesday 11 June: Outing to Dunkeld Festival Theatre to see A Christmas Carol 8pm. Cathedral and Blair Castle musical Wednesday 22 May: ‘The Turra Coo’ – talk Tuesday 9 July: Outing to Bowhill House, FRIENDS OF BARRY MILL by Jim Forrest. Selkirk The Friends of Barry Mill support the When a farmer refused to pay for the new property and are involved in a number of national insurance stamps in 1913, he Thursday 1 August: Outing to Drumlanrig events. Please see nts.org.uk/events for precipitated the seizure and attempted sale Castle Barry Mill events or call the mill on 01241 of a small white cow, and the legend of the 856761. Turra Coo was born. A hundred years later, Monday 2–Friday 6 September: Members’ a statue was erected in Turriff town centre. Annual Holiday to Argyll BEARSDEN & MILNGAVIE MEMBERS’ Jim will tell us about the events and more CENTRE (SC025422) about the local area, which he knows well Tuesday 1 October: Provisional date for Laura Clow, Secretary having grown up on a nearby farm. talk in the Abbey Church Hall (speaker tbc) Tel: 0141 570 1165 Email: [email protected] Wednesday 12 June: ‘Strathbraan’ – talk by Saturday 26 October: Provisional date for Ann Lindsay and John Martin. coffee morning in the Abbey Church Hall Sandra Cunningham, Events Secretary The River Braan flows east from Loch Tel: 07854 124927 Freuchie to the River Tay at Dunkeld EAST LOTHIAN MEMBERS’ CENTRE Cathedral. A short, broad and beautiful Email: [email protected] (SC026085) valley, it’s full of Scottish history – from Margaret Russell, Membership Secretary Bonnie Prince Charlie to Beatrix Potter. Ann Afternoon and evening talks are held at Tel: 01875 853370 and John will show a glorious film about the Bearsden Burgh Hall, 69 Drymen Road, Email: [email protected] strath and answer questions. A trailer can Bearsden G61 3QT. be found on YouTube, titled ‘Braan Trailer 2 HD’ by John Martin. Wednesday 24 April: Trip to Jedburgh, Tuesday 23 April, 7.30pm: AGM Roxburghshire. This wee gem of a town is FRIENDS OF CRARAE (SC033244) closer to England than Edinburgh, sitting FRIENDS OF BRODICK CASTLE & Fiona Rice, Secretary just 10 miles from the border. You can COUNTRY PARK (SC033817) friendsofcrarae.com choose to visit a number of attractions Marion Melvin, Secretary/Treasurer including the 12th-century abbey (Historic Tel: 01770 810693 Please visit the What’s New section of our Scotland members go free with Email: [email protected] website to find out more details about our membership card), Mary, Queen of Scots’ upcoming events. House (free entry) and Jedburgh Castle Jail The Friends of Brodick Castle & Country (free entry). Park organise a number of events and FRIENDS OF CULZEAN (SC037983) support the property through fundraising John Rattenbury, Secretary Monday 20 May: Trip to Howick Hall and volunteering. For more details contact Tel: 01292 264344 Gardens & Arboretum, Northumberland. Marion Melvin. Email: [email protected] Wander through the beautiful gardens created by the 5th Earl Grey and his family. The Friends of Culzean act to support the The gardens are deliberately aimed at property and arrange events for volunteers. garden lovers and offer a stunning variety Please contact John Rattenbury for further of unusual plants throughout the seasons. details about this group. Monday 10 June: Trip to Marchmont GALLOWAY MEMBERS’ GROUP (SC026207) THE FRIENDS OF HUGH MILLER (SC037351) House, Berwickshire. Marchmont House is John Brown, Secretary Martin Gostwick, Secretary one of Scotland’s grandest mansions of the Email: [email protected] Tel: 01381 600301 mid-18th century, with impressive Email: [email protected] contributions from the Edwardian era, and Wednesday 1 May, 11am–3pm: Visit to yet it remains largely unknown. Large parts John Paul Jones Cottage, Arbigland. After the The Friends of Hugh Miller promote the of the house are furnished in the spirit of visit there’ll be a walk through the gardens legacy of Hugh Miller and support his the Arts & Crafts movement.