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Dumfries, Scotland
Joined December 2017
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Exciting times ahead as we get ready to reopen to visitors for 2025! Why not come along on Friday 11th April and enjoy our community Easter event too! 🐇
As we get ready to host our Easter Event what a better time than to also use this time to celebrate reopening for the new season! From Friday 11th April, Ellisland will be back open to visitors every Wednesday – Saturday! We look forward to welcoming you to Ellisland soon!
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Our team members @JoanMcAlpine and @ailsaatu attended #ssdaconf25 today - great to connect with so many inspiring businesses in tourism across the region. Thanks to @SScotDAlliance team for a very stimulating day!!
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We have lots of exciting things happening here at Ellisland as part of our Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne project! Make sure you don’t miss out on any news as we get ready to reopen for 2025! Join our mailing list for a monthly newsletter here - ellislandfarm.co.uk/contact/
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Exciting opportunities for someone to join our team and work on delivering our project: Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne! See post below for more information! 👇🏻👇🏻👇🏻
Join our team! We are currently recruiting for two positions: Project Curator and Project Manager. These posts are part of an enthusiastic team delivering our project: “Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne.” For more information visit - ellislandfarm.co.uk/about/jo…
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Was great to meet members from the club today and show them around Ellisland, many of whom hadn't visited us before. We'll have exciting news coming soon about our reopening for 2025!
Today we welcomed members of Annan Ladies Burns Club to Ellisland. They enjoyed a tour of the buildings & grounds before heading over to Friars Carse for an afternoon tea. We look forward to welcoming more visitors to Ellisland, keep an eye out for exciting updates coming soon.
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We have a fabulous event happening this weekend! Why not get the family together and come along to enjoy a Burns supper! Tickets available below 👇🏻
Come along and join us this weekend for a family-friendly event where you can celebrate the Bard's legacy within the Barn Burns built! A Burns Supper menu to enjoy as well as some live performances. Tickets are available in the link below: tickettailor.com/.../robertb…
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🥳🥳🥳 Double Good News for #Burnsnight2025 A £313,210 grant from @SoSEnterprise to help Save the Home of Auld Lang Syne. Also…a loan offer from @ArchHFund to help cash flow the project. Lots to celebrate when SOSE chair Russel Griggs OBE recently visited us!
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We can now share the @ScotParl debate led by @olivermundell recognising the cultural and economic importance of Robert Burns and highlighting our @HeritageFundSCO supported project “Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne” scottishparliament.tv/meetin… – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Fantastic turnout for Burns debate @ScotParl secured by @olivermundell with response from @jamiehepburn Thanks to all MSPs who spoke & who came along to support our plan to Save the Home of Auld Lang Syne including tourism minister @RichardLochhead – at Edinburgh, Scotland
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Looking forward to visiting @ScotParl this afternoon!
Today we feature in a debate in @ScotParl secure by @olivermundell. It's just after 5pm -watch it live here scottishparliament.tv/ Our trustees & staff are in parliament from 3.30pm. If MSPs or their staff want to say hello we are in Committee Room 1 – The Burns Room !
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Delighted our work and our award from @HeritageFundUK is highlighted in this parliamentary motion by @olivermundell which has secured x-party support and will be debated in @ScotParl next Wednesday, 22 Jan, ahead of #burnsnight #savethehomeofauldlangsyne parliament.scot/chamber-and-… – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Exciting times ahead working with the wonderful team here at @Burns_Ellisland 😊
Meet Ailsa Paton, the newest member of our team here at Ellisland. Ailsa, who is from Dumfries, will deliver our events, youth and education initiatives as well as supporting the day to day running of the site and our visitor offer.
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Happy New Year! Ellisland is where Robert Burns wrote Auld Lang Syne. Based on an old Scottish song, his lyric is a poignant reflection on love, friendship and loss, which became a New Year Anthem - crossing continents and generations. youtu.be/1XA6HsCYkZE – at Scotland, United Kingdom
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Merry Christmas to everyone! Hope you have a lovely day 🎅🏻🎄
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That's a wrap for 2024! Thank you to all our schools in D&G it's been another amazing year working with you all! @DGCEducation @scotfinschools
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Feeling festive after a lovely weekend away visiting family 💜 not long now until Christmas everyone! 🎅🏻🎄✨
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Great morning at Langholm Academy for our final My Money Talks workshop all about Borrowing money. The S6's had some great chat the past 2 weeks about this topic as well as budgeting & saving. #financialeducation @scotfinschools @DGCEducation
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Great week so far visiting @DalbeattieHigh @KirkcudbrightA & @AcademyAnnan! Some fab discussions on budgeting & saving as part of our My Money Talks! Our group at Dalbeattie also came up with some great lists of safe/unsafe when it comes to borrowing money! #financialeducation
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Rounded off #TalkMoneyWeek with a visit to Lockerbie Academy today! Our schools from this weeks visits have done amazing work looking at various topics from salaries, budgeting, savings & borrowing money! What has your "Do 1 thing" been this week? #sfsontour #FinancialEducation
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Our new Bitesized Blog is live, and we're looking at payslips, earnings, and how to debunk the numbers and terms. financialschools.scot/news/t…
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