Author: Christina Johnston

Stranraer Youth Development Team

Throughout 2024, the Stranraer Youth Development Team has been actively working hard to ensure that the young people of Stranraer continue to have their voices heard. The continuation of the weekly youth group meetings held at the Gateway to Galloway Hub has been entertaining and rewarding for all who attend, providing an inclusive and accessible space for creativity and engagement. In addition to these sessions, the Team has been attending twice-weekly lunch sessions throughout the year at the local Academy to host sessions with the students on topics that are important to them. As well as alerting the young people of Stranraer as to how they can get involved with local issues and also how to access volunteering opportunities at events such as the Trust’s annual Oyster Festival.

The Team has also been actively delivering fun crafting sessions at local events and festive times to ensure that the young people of Stranraer have fun, free, and creative activities to get involved with.

Summer Fun Day 2024

Stranraer Youth Development Team was once again delighted to deliver another Summer Fun Day in August this year. The team welcomed the community along to the Unexpected Garden to enjoy children’s entertainers, and a cinema day hosted by Skylight Cinema showing two films Paw Patrol and Finding Nemo back to back throughout the afternoon. Activities and games, as well food, courtesy of the Fed Up Cafe, were all free of charge throughout the day.

Stranraer Young Developers Cook Book Project

The SYD group began working with the Fed Up Café and the local academy to create a Stranraer cookbook in 2022.  Staff at the Fed Up Café helped the group to practice some fun, simple recipes to potentially include and we also involved the local academy who drew pictures of recipe ingredients, featured in the book. The group came up with a lot of the design ideas as well as the name of the cook book and it is now on sale at the Gateway to Galloway.

Gateway to Galloway Visitor Centre and Community Hub

The Gateway to Galloway Visitor Centre and Community Hub opened on 2nd July 2021.

The centre is a place for tourists to come for information on what's going on in and around Stranraer, places to visit, stay, eat and drink. With a wide variety of local art and crafts for sale.

The centre also acts as a community hub, offering exhibition space for community groups and artists based in Stranraer, with access to free WIFI.

For more information please visit our sister site, by clicking on the link at the top of the page.

Thank you to our Festival Funders

A big thanks to all the funders who have supported the Festival which will allow us to make it a really special event and create a legacy for the town.