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Dumfries Citizens Advice Service

Mirin Benzie Joins Dumfries Citizens Advice Service

Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service are delighted to welcome another newly qualified adviser to the Dumfries bureau. Mirin Benzie completed an intensive adviser...

New Venue For Castle Douglas D&g Citizens Advice Service

Dumfries and Galloway Citizens Advice Service have entered into a new collaboration with Castle Douglas Parish Church to deliver advice services from the lower...
Work-based Qualification

D&G NHS Volunteers Lead way with Work-based Qualification

A VOLUNTEERING award has been presented for the very first time to some of those who give their time in support of NHS Dumfries...
Friends Devil's Porridge Museum

New Friends of the Museum scheme at the Devil’s Porridge Museum

In 2014, the Devil’s Porridge Museum started its Friends of the Museum Scheme.  “It was designed to appeal to locals and to offer them...

Paramedics, Pharmacists and Mental Health Nurses Lead Primary Care Change

A TRANSFORMATION is currently underway within primary care in Dumfries and Galloway – as a result of a new national contract for GPs. Paramedics, pharmacists...
MOOL WORLD BECOME KINDER PLACE

D&g Charity Wonders If You Can Help The World Become A Kinder Place?

DUMFRIES and Galloway kindness based charity Massive Outpouring of Love (MOOL) is holding an informal meeting on February 2nd 2019 at Soul Soup, Irish...

Community Fights Back Against High Street Absentee Landlords

A Dumfries community group is asking fellow citizens to respond to an emergency request and come together, as a town, and buy two High...
CUCKOO BRIDGE CLEANED UP

Cuckoo Bridge Cleaned Up

Following on from her work taking part in a number of recent beach cleans across the region, last Saturday morning South Scotland MSP Emma Harper teamed up with...
Tackling Financial Harm

Tackling Financial Harm in Dumfries and Galloway

A Financial Harm Strategy for Dumfries and Galloway has been launched, which is an action plan intended to tackle head on the perpetration of...
free sanitary products

£4 million Extra Funding to Expand Access to free sanitary products Across Scotland

Further funding to increase the number of places where free sanitary products are available has been announced by Communities Secretary Aileen Campbell. Local authorities will...