Dumfries Town Board

08/09/2026

Well done to all our wonderful volunteers - big thank you 🙏 😄

Volunteers make Dumfries shine as part of volunteering week-long project

https://www.itv.com/watch/news/volunteers-make-dumfries-shine-as-part-of-volunteering-week-long-project/lfp59w9

08/09/2026

🌸 Some last-minute entries for Dumfries Bloom & Shine! 🌸

We are delighted to welcome two more fantastic entries to our fun, friendly competition!

🌿 Lincluden Community Centre have created a lovely display featuring floral planters, herbs and even potatoes! 🥔🌼

🏓 Dumfries Table Tennis Club have joined their four planters together to create a fantastic square display. They have already been receiving some lovely comments from members and passers-by. They would love to add even more, but are waiting to see if these ones make it safely through first! 🤞 Fingers crossed they don’t get vandalised.

A huge thank you to everyone who has taken part in Dumfries Bloom & Shine this year. It has been wonderful to see so many people, groups and organisations getting involved and helping to brighten up Dumfries. 🌺✨

👀 The judges will be out and about this Friday! Please don’t be offended if they can’t stop for long - we have a lot of entries to see right across the Dumfries boundary, so they’ll be on a tight schedule!

As judging is taking place on the final day of Dumfries Shine and our Shine Fest, the winners won’t be announced until next week.

🏆 Watch this space!

And once again, thank you to everyone who has taken part and helped make Dumfries bloom and shine. 💐💛

08/09/2026

🌟 DAY 2 OF DUMFRIES SHINE! 🌟

We’re back at it today as our amazing volunteers continue to get out and about across Dumfries, helping to clean up, tidy and brighten the areas highlighted by our community.

Today, our main areas of focus are:

📍 Mill Green Cycle Path
📍 Dock Park
📍 St Michael’s Graveyard
📍 Glebe Street
📍 St Michael’s Street
📍 Brooms Road
…and plenty more!

Our volunteers will be out throughout the day, getting stuck in and helping to make a real difference across our town. 💪

Want to get involved? Whether you have an hour, a morning or the whole day, come along to The Hub at 24–26 Friars Vennel and find out where the team is heading!

Every helping hand makes a difference.

Let’s keep working together and make Dumfries Shine! ✨

07/09/2026

🌟 GUESS WHAT?! DAY 1 OF DUMFRIES SHINE HAS ARRIVED! 🌟

That’s right, Dumfries Shine 2026 is officially underway!

Today, our fantastic volunteers will be out and about across the town centre, tackling the areas that YOU told us needed some extra attention.

Our main areas of focus today include:

📍 High Street
📍 The Whitesands
📍 Bank Street
📍 Irish Street
📍 Nith Place
📍 Shakespeare Street
📍 Loreburn Street & Car Park
📍 Buccleuch Street
…and many more!

We are listening to our community and taking our Shine efforts to the places you’ve highlighted to us.

Want to know where the team is heading next? Simply pop into The Hub at 24–26 Friars Vennel and find out where you can get involved!

Whether you can spare an hour or the whole day, there’s still time to join us.

Let’s get stuck in and make Dumfries Shine! ✨

05/09/2026

⚽🔥 MEET OOR LADY FLORENCE DIXIE 🔥⚽

Writer. Traveller. War Correspondent. Feminist. Political thinker. Women’s Football Pioneer.

And Dumfriesshire born and bred.

Born Florence Caroline Douglas at Cummertrees in 1855, Lady Florence Dixie was a spectacular force of nature who repeatedly refused Victorian expectations of how women should dress, behave, work, travel - or take up space in the world.

And, of course, she believed women should play football…

In 1895, Florence became President of the newly formed British Ladies’ Football Club - one of Britain’s earliest organised women’s football clubs. She championed practical clothing for the players and argued that football should be every bit as natural a game for women / girls, as for men / boys... and for everyone in between.

But football is only one doorway into Florence’s utterly extraordinary life…

She travelled through Patagonia, wrote Sci-Fi novels imagining radically different futures for women (ie they got the right to vote!), worked as a war correspondent in southern Africa, campaigned for women’s rights and continually defied the gender conventions of her time.
She was also the Aunt of Oscar Wilde’s Bosie (Lord Alfred Douglas)

THIS is why we love a catalyst character. 🔎

One local life can open up whole hidden worlds of history - women’s football, gender, clothing, sport, sexuality, politics, power, feminism, travel, empire and whose stories we choose to remember.

And Florence is only the beginning…

Through Queens of the Pitch, run in partnership with QueenoftheSouth FC our Community Co-Curators will follow her onto the football field - and onwards through generations of women and girls who played, organised, supported and fought for their place in the game.

⚽ Oor Lady Florence is coming Out of the Archives, and we suspect she has quite a lot to say!

Part of Pride of Place: Dumfries - Out of the Archives, developed by DJ McDowall The Imaginarium with Arts D&G and Dumfries and Galloway Heritage Service

Queens of the Pitch is supported by Dumfries Town Board through their Pride in Place funding, with Dumfries Museum

04/09/2026

Well done Lochside Community Centre your planter looks lovey 🌺🌸

Thank you for the donation of our planter and flowers to display at Lochside Community Centre .
A big thanks goes out to our volunteer Keith for doing a great job of planting our flowers (donated and purchased ) and brightening up the front of our centre
Many thanks once again to all involved
Lochside Community centre

04/09/2026

MAGIC IS COMING TO DUMFRIES SHINE FEST!

We’re delighted to announce that the amazing Franc Karpo will be joining us at Dumfries Shine Fest for some fantastic family magic!

📅 Friday 11th September
📍 The Plainstanes, Dumfries High Street

Franc will be performing two magical shows:

🎩 1:00pm – 2:00pm
🎩 3:00pm – 4:00pm

Bring along your family and friends and get ready for some amazing magic, laughter and entertainment! 🪄

We can’t wait to see you all there and make it a fantastic day for everyone! 💫

See you at Shine Fest! 🎉