Do you enjoy stitching, knitting, crocheting?

Join our friendly knit and natter group. Come and meet new friends and swap tips and ideas, all ages and abilities welcome!

Come along to the opening of an exhibition on the history of the Southern Upland Way. Find out how the route was set up, the early years of the path and what the future holds for this iconic trail.

2 PM - Exhibition opens

3 PM - Talk on the history and future of the Southern Upland Way

Refreshments will be available so come along for a cup of tea and a chat and celebrate the 40th birthday of Scotland's Coast to Coast path. After the event the exhibition will be on display at the Hive until the 9th May.

Come and meet our friendly club, find out what’s involved, try a new activity and have some fun!

From 7pm until 9pm

Thursday 18th January, Thursday 1st February and Thursday 15th February.

Come and get creative and learn how to make your very own Willow Dragonfly. Perfect for adorning your garden.

You’ll learn how to make a beautiful dragonfly using various willow weaving and crafting techniques. Enjoy customising your dragonfly using various adornments. Mount your finished dragonfly on the end of a garden cane, ready to welcome & be admired by you and your garden guests throughout the year or hang it indoors.

All materials included along with hot drinks and cake, and of course some relaxing background music.

£38 per person - to book: https://www.wayofthewild.co.uk/booking

Wine For Fun presents Introduction to Wine Tasting Evening, Part Two at the Glentrool Hive. Taste and learn about 6 excellent wines with matching small tapas dishes.

By advance purchase tickets only, £35 per person.

The southern sky will be a busy place in the evening of 15th March. From about 7pm, after sunset, a crescent moon will be suspended over Taurus and quite close to the Pleiades.

The planets Mercury, Jupiter and Uranus will be setting in the west, while constellations Taurus, Orion and Canis Major (with Sirius, the brightest star) will be rising from the east. The International Space Station rises in the south-west at 7:30pm and races east through Orion at 7:35pm before setting due east at 7:41pm.

If we get a clear sky it should be a great observation opportunity for naked-eye, binocular, telescope and camera stargazing. If it's cloudy, we'll have a presentation in the Hive using the GFAS 4K projector and the 150 inch screen.

Destash Day

12pm until 3pm

Join us for a 2024 clear out and Destash Day! Sell or trade your existing crafting supplies or 'stash' to allow another crafter to buy different materials. Call 01671 840 717 to reserve a table - £10 per table. Refreshments available.

As part of our Warm Hub Project this year, we are hosting Community Lunches for residents of Glentrool and Bargrennan.

Join our friendly volunteers at the Glentrool Hive and enjoy some warming soup & sandwiches, tea & coffee and some cake.

Way of the Wild will be host to a Bird Feeder Willow Workshop on Sunday 14th January 2024 from 12pm until 4pm with us here at the Glentrool Hive.

We're thrilled to have a fellow Galloway and Southern Ayrshire Unesco Biosphere Certified Business partner with us to deliver these natural and creative workshops, something to look forward to and help us reconnect to nature after the Festive madness!

https://www.wayofthewild.co.uk/booking

First Footing Village Social

Join us in the New Year for an evening of live music from the Jones Family. BYOB, nibbles and friends!

Supported by the Dumfries and Galloway Council Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Fund, The Glentrool Hive is host to Community Social Evenings throughout the winter months.

BYOB, nibbles and games and join us in the cosy Hive for a friendly get together.

Come and meet our friendly club, find out what’s involved, try a new activity and have some fun!

From 7pm until 9pm

Thursday 23rd November, Thursday 7th December and Thursday 21st December.

Supported by the Dumfries and Galloway Council Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Fund, The Glentrool Hive is host to Community Social Evenings throughout the winter months.

BYOB, nibbles and games and join us in the cosy Hive for a friendly get together.

Announcing our Christmas Fayre!

Saturday 2nd December from 12pm until 4pm

Last year we saw an amazing array of stalls from toy makers, bakers, painters and jewellery makers. To book your stall for our 2023 Christmas Fayre, please get in touch with us. £10 per table.

More details to be announced soon.

Do you enjoy stitching, knitting, crocheting?

Join our friendly knit and natter group. Come and meet new friends and swap tips and ideas, all ages and abilities welcome!

£30 Per person - Sunday 26th November from 2pm until 4pm

Sally Bourne of Flowers of the Forest

I have been making Christmas wreaths for many years. If you would like to see some examples of those that I have made there are lots of photos on my website www.flowersoftheforest15.co.uk. I don’t use any floral foam or other plastics. My wreaths are made on a wire base covered with moss. The moss helps to keep the foliage fresh, and the wire base can be reused. I use a selection of traditional fresh foliage, berries and cones. Everything you need to make your wreath will be provided, but if you have any foliage in your garden that you would like to use, please bring it with you. I prefer my wreaths without any ribbons or other embellishments, but if you would like to add a bow to your wreath, bring some ribbon along. If you have secateurs or flower snips that you like to use, feel free to bring them with you, but I can lend you some if you don’t have your own.

£30 Per person - Saturday 25th November from 2pm until 4pm

Sally Bourne of Flowers of the Forest

I have been making Christmas wreaths for many years. If you would like to see some examples of those that I have made there are lots of photos on my website www.flowersoftheforest15.co.uk. I don’t use any floral foam or other plastics. My wreaths are made on a wire base covered with moss. The moss helps to keep the foliage fresh, and the wire base can be reused. I use a selection of traditional fresh foliage, berries and cones. Everything you need to make your wreath will be provided, but if you have any foliage in your garden that you would like to use, please bring it with you. I prefer my wreaths without any ribbons or other embellishments, but if you would like to add a bow to your wreath, bring some ribbon along. If you have secateurs or flower snips that you like to use, feel free to bring them with you, but I can lend you some if you don’t have your own.

Come and meet our friendly club, find out what’s involved, try a new activity and have some fun!

From 7pm until 9pm

Thursday 23rd November, Thursday 7th December and Thursday 21st December.

Do you enjoy stitching, knitting, crocheting?

Join our friendly knit and natter group. Come and meet new friends and swap tips and ideas, all ages and abilities welcome!

Supported by the Dumfries and Galloway Council Tackling Poverty & Inequalities Fund, The Glentrool Hive is host to Community Social Evenings throughout the winter months.

BYOB, nibbles and games and join us in the cosy Hive for a friendly get together.

Find time for self-care; it’s not selfish, it’s essential!

Join us for a day dedicated to you; incorporating yoga, health coaching, forest bathing and cold water immersion, together with a delicious lunch and time for yourself.

What's not too love?

Follow the link to book, you wont regret it!

Book - Women's Wellness Day | eola

Join us over two weekends to witness the spectacular Orionid meteors and the partial lunar eclipse. Telescopes will be on hand, please feel free to bring your own. A presentation indoors, using the new GFAS 150 inch screen will be available should the weather not be on our side! Hot refreshments available.

The UK will see a partial lunar eclipse. A partial lunar eclipse happens when the Moon passes through the Earth's penumbra (the outer region of the Earth’s shadow), and only a section of it passes through the umbra (the darkest part of the Earth’s shadow). From the UK we’ll only see a small fraction of the Full Moon pass into the umbra. At its maximum, which occurs at 21:15, just 12% will be in shadow. The partial eclipse will be visible throughout all of Europe, Asia, and Africa, and western Australia. Full moon, though - too bright for any but the brightest stars, although Jupiter, Saturn and Uranus are all in the southern sky at the time. 

£5 per person, free for under 25’s and concession rate for over 65’s.

Join us over two weekends to witness the spectacular Orionid meteors and the partial lunar eclipse. Telescopes will be on hand, please feel free to bring your own. A presentation indoors, using the new GFAS 150 inch screen will be available should the weather not be on our side! Hot refreshments available.

Join us to witness the Orionid meteors. With a maximum rate of around 25 meteors per hour, the Orionid meteor shower, peaking around the night of 21st October, features fast meteors which can leave persistent trains which appear to have started out from the constellation Orion, but can be seen in all parts of the sky. Saturn will be very bright, nearly due south at around 9:30 pm near moonset. With the Moon in 2023 around First Quarter during the peak, conditions should be quite good to spot the Orionids.

From 8pm until 10pm.  

Energiekontor will host a public exhibition at the Glentrool Hive on Thursday 28th September from 3pm until 6pm regarding the Glenvernoch Windfarm Proposal. Please click on the link below for more information:

Glenvernoch (energiekontor.co.uk)

SOLD OUT

Join foraging teacher and mycophile Mark Williams of Galloway Wild Foods for an exploration of the remarkable world of fungi. On this walk, he'll share his depth of knowledge and enthusiasm about wild mushrooms - their vital roles in nature and how to set about identifying them. The gentle walk will be followed by a fungi-themed wild picnic and workshop session. (210 min approx.)

Strictly ticket only event, to book visit:

Galloway Wild Foods - Fungi Foraging Walk (wigtownbookfestival.com)

An invitation to a Fund Raising Lunch

Join us in supporting projects to benefit the young people in Lesotho, Southern Africa.

Donations welcome at the luncheon

Please let us know if you are planning to attend, tickets available at the Glentrool Hive.

If you are a new gardener and would like to grow some flowers for cutting but you are unsure just where to start, or a more experienced gardener but you haven’t tried or haven’t succeeded in raising plants from seed this workshop is for you.

Everything that you need to start off your seeds will be provided, including the seeds, seed compost, trays and labels. Although we shall be focusing on growing flowers for cutting at this workshop the methods that you will learn can be applied to growing other types of flowers and vegetables from seed.

Call 01671 840 717 or email manager@glentroolhive.co.uk to book.

An open public event for people to have a relaxed discussion about how they feel about the scoped and proposed windfarms at Glenvernoch and Blair Hill.

For more information, please follow the link below and enter the project name.

Scottish Government - Energy Consents Unit - Application Search

For more details: Kenny Campbell - 07376584563