Fundraising

NSI Community Shop is now Open

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Community ShopNewton Stewart Initiative has been working away quietly in the background for many months with Dumfries and Galloway Council to secure a long term “community shop” for the town. We are delighted to confirm that having navigated and solved numerous obstacles to getting the shop started, our doors are now open and everyone is very welcome. The shop is situated within the building that was the former Tourist Information Office at Dashwood Square car park. The official opening ceremony of the shop will take place on Saturday September 9th with local MSP Finlay Carson doing the honours as part of the “Day of the Region event.” The shop will be open Monday to Saturday from 10am to 4pm.

Your community shop will be selling unwanted donated new and pre-loved good quality clothes and items from a wide range. The proceeds will go back into the Newton Stewart and Minnigaff community, in the form of funding local projects and events.  Every item donated and every item bought will help the local community directly. We aim to keep everyone fully up to date with amounts raised, what we have helped to fund, where, when and how.

As the shop is situated within the former Tourist Information Office, which closed several years ago, as a courtesy service to visitors we will also do our very best to offer local information and generally try to tell visitors why they should stay and spend time in Newton Stewart and Minnigaff. A selection of maps and flyers will be available to visitors.

A long term plan in the community shop is also to present an area (space permitting) for local crafters and artists to display their work to visitors with a percentage of any sales also going to fund local community projects and events.

It is good to see what was a long term empty closed building now re-opened as a community shop with the aim of helping our town and community to the best of our ability, in both funds raised and as a point of contact. Please come along and support this new NSI project. The shop also has it’s own Facebook page which is well worth checking for updates and promotions.

Facebook:- Just follow the link and “like” page to follow for all the updates and Community Shop News.

 

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Newton Stewart Initiative selected as local Sainsbury’s charity

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Newton Stewart Initiative are most grateful to our local Sainsbury’s store, and of course their customers, for selecting us as their local charity for 2017/18. This selection adds to the prestige of NSI and is a deeply appreciated vote of confidence from the local community, with NSI being one of several worthy charities to choose from.  We have already been able to host a stand inside the entrance presenting a demonstration of what NSI is doing at the moment, with the likes of The Newton Stewart Centre, the new community shop launch and also convey physical plans for future projects such as the proposed BMX track at Douglas Park to name but one. We were delighted to sign up many new members over the two days. Sainsbury’s also kindly hosted a car boot sale for us last month and there are many more events upcoming. Please keep an eye out for posters in Sainsbury’s for our upcoming events. Thank you to everyone who kindly voted for us.

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Calendar Competition

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Calling all photographers, budding photographers and owners of phones with cameras.
The Newton Stewart Initiative are launching their first Photography Competition, free to enter, and the prize is to be your photograph on the cover of our 2018 calendar and to be used on the month of your choice inside the calendar.
The rules are simple, send us a photo or photos’ to info@newtonstewartinitiative.net by
1st September 2017.
All photos will be judged by the NSI Fundraising team and the overall winner and winners notified, the overall winner will be asked what Month of the 2018 calendar they would like their photo to be used on. All other winningphotos will be allocated a given month in the calendar.
All photos must be of of Newton Stewart or Minnigaff, or from Newton Stewart or Minnigaff. This can include events, activities etc that take place in Newton/Minnigaff and is not limited solely to ‘Views Of’ type photographs.
The photographs will be collated into a Calendar and printed at cost to the NSI and then sold in order to raise funds for our ongoing project work.
Dig out your portfolios, check your memory sticks and have a look on your saved folders as this is a chance to publicise your work free of charge and have it distributed in over 250 calendars that are to be sold at our Winterfayre in November.
No effort required just get your photos in to us as soon as you can.
All funds to go towards our upkeep of the Newton Stewart Centre
Good Luck
NSI Fundraising Team

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