Local Events/Meetings/Forms

Up and Coming

The all new Calendar View of Up and Coming Events/Meetings in Coldingham and surrounding district. From time to time there may be Questionnaires and Forms to complete. Could even be small local grants. What is there is down to you !!

If you do not have direct access to add in an event then simply complete and submit the Coldingham Info contact form found at the bottom of this page for your event/meeting/notification etc. You can attach an Image or a pdf as a means to provide further information but it is entirely optional. The more places visitors can find your event/form etc. the better !!

Previous pages are now retired. However, you still have access for the time being if you wish to look back.

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Community Council

Meeting dates, Approved/Draft minutes and much more ...

The All New Community Council site where the content is solely managed by the community council. This should keep you fully up to date with decisions made and actions taken by all parties. (Everything being open and transparent)

To preserve some form of continuity with your previous navigation. A few of the links below will take you directly to a specific page. However, if selected, I would suggest you the return directly to the Community Council Home Page for familiarisation of the differences.

Continuity has been preserved where possible.

You can view the SBC 2014 Model Community Council Constitution and the 2019 Handbook. If you require to contact the Community Coucil about any matter then please use the community council contact form (link below) which may help speed up the process.

Please note that within the Documents section there is category, useful information. There you may find information on road closures, planning, home energy advice, funding sources etc. Always worth checking to view recent additions.

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Site Search

Powered by Free Find

All the information required to perform a search can be found on the page itself. Generally enter a few key words each seperated by a space. Wild card option available, more on the page itself.

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Coldingham Beach/Bay

Coldingham & St Abbs Residents

The Formation of a Working Group for Coldingham Beach and Coastal Paths Care

In order to protect the beach, the coastal paths, toilets, car park etc. for everyones enjoyment not just for now but also for the future we wish to set up a working group to improve the situation. It would be fantastic if you can either express an interest in the working group or even better sign up to be part of the working group.

How we wish to go about this, register your interest or join the working group is all explained in the Working Group Home Page.

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Luckenbooth

Interpretation Wall

This is made available here for those that require online access to this.

To be slightly technical it will run slightly differently here as it was developed to run under a browser in kiosk mode. (Essentially Full screen with no browser tabs with NO user exit from the browser)

Note : Some changes were made here to the project's home page to allow you to return to Coldingham Info home page from the project's homepage menu.

For the best experience on a computer, if possible, you should ideally toggle the browser to run full screen.

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Gala

Coldingham Gala

Coldingham Gala is East Berwickshire’s premier summer country gala, taking place on the last Sunday in July each year.

Varied programme from Live Stage Acts, Craft Stalls, Car Boot, Funfair Rides, Fun Dog Show , Free Magic Show, Raffle Prizes and much more. You can book a stall in the Marquee, book a car boot space or provide catering.

Details on how to book etc. can be found on the gala page.

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Coldfest

Coldingham

Your Local Music Festival held in local venues providing the opportunity for up amd coming as well as established bands and singer songwriters performing live for your enjoyment.

Now established as Berwickshires premier music festival. This is a great way to spend the day for all music lovers that really do enjoy outdoor live music.

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Monumental Inscriptions

Coldingham Priory

Search on family name or stone inscription by entering multiple string patterns. (Gravestome Image and approximate location subsequently displayed).

The work of recording the information, approximately 2011, was carried out by Friends of Coldingham Priory and members of Borders Family History Society (BFHS).

More information and full details on how to search is provided on the respective pages. This may well be of some assistance you in tracing your family history.

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Images

John Wood historical Images from the turn of the 20th century and images from local events

One of the most exciting and remarkable photographic finds of recent years was made in, of all places, a Borders garden shed. Comprising a massive accumulation of glass negatives, this was the work of John Wood, a photographer whose studies of village life at the turn of the century sparkle with a quality rarely seen.

Now with over 160 John Wood Images and an Old Postcard 25 minute Slideshow with over 100 images.

The Collection of images now colourised, categorised and brought together for easier accessibility...

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Grants

Greencoat Drone Hill & Local Grants

Grants of up to £10000 for Community Groups and Projects benefiting Cockburnspath & Cove, Coldingham, Grantshouse, Reston and Auchencrow.

The Drone Hill Wind Farm Community Fund supports community projects benefiting those living in the areas covered by Reston & Auchencrow, Grantshouse, Coldingham, and Cockburnspath & Cove Community Councils. The fund is provided by Greencoat UK Wind, the owners of the Drone Hill Wind Farm in East Berwickshire.

Small Local grants may also be available from time to time, check the links below.

Find out more - see links below

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Film Club

Movie Night

The last Thursday of the month in the Village Hall, your local cinema.

You will find out everything you need to know about the film club by visting their home page. The Up and Coming films with more information on each film than ever before with each film having a small video trailer where available. You can also see what you may have missed.

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Fuel Club (Oil)

Coldingham & St Abbs

It's free to sign up but you must be a resident in Coldingham or St Abbs as it's the small geographic area

All the information can be found on the Fuel Club Page. How it works, how to join and see the most recent planned delivery timetable.

Remember it's a local buying group set up to negotiate bulk purchase discounts with the fuel companies to save you some money.

If you have not already signed up then find out more by selecting the Coldingham & St Abbs Fuel Club Page - link below.

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Walks/Trails

Coastal Path & Local Walks/Trails

For all walkers.

The Berwickshire Coastal Path stretches from Cockburnspath to Berwick-Upon-Tweed is mapped out on OpenStreetMap. Informative waypoints with audio, well worth a look !!

Besides the Coastal Path and local Coldingjam Walks there are a further 12 or so Routes throughout East Berwickshire. The routes are primarily for walkers but where possible attempts have been made to accomodate others.

All information can currently be found on the Paths/Walks/Trails page

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Climate Change

Cause and Effect

Originally addedc in early 2022 but just as relevant today, even more so.

A series of short articles from reputable websites from which you can form your own opinions.

Clear up some of the most frequently heard myths, so that you can tell fiction from fact or fact from fiction.

From the The UK Climate Risk Website a comprehensive assessment of the risks and opportunities facing the UK.

National Summaries for all UK countries and sectors to view or download, certainly comprehensive. Links opposite.

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Coldingham Archive

Not Lost - Just Moved !!

If you have seen, read or selected something from this page that you now cannot find then it will more than likely be in the Archive.

The Archive is essentially a timeline showing the date of removal of the original page with a link to that page.

Worth checking out !!...

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BBC UK Latest - The Headlines

Rolling News & Weather (RSS Feeds) !!

If you have missed today's news then this is the easiest and quickest way to see and read the headlines.

Rolling Headlines, split by country and updated during the day. Note: this is reliant on FeedRapp and all other provider services/feeds to be available.

If FeedRapp Services are down Use the Direct Links

You will also find a link for BBC Weather Feeds and Met Office Weather Link

Usually the latest 10 or 20 breaking stories

Worth checking out !!...

Note: some of the pages may take a few seconds to retrieve and load the feed headlines esepecially if you select the first link for the combined UK countries as it's 4 feeds. Bit of patientce or just reload the page.

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Coldingham Village

All about the Village !!

This page of cards, each with a page link, that can be filtered by History, Community and Notable Rsidents.

Here you can select the page and pass over an optional predesignated filter or alternately load thepage with no filter and select a filter yourself.

Simply a page with filtering providing links to other pages. Straightforward and easy to use.

Note: Please note that Coldingham page is not a finite list of Coldingham related information found on this site. You may well be found elsewhere such as the gala pages...

A Good place to Start - Especially for the History !!

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Some Other Village Websites

Namely. Coldingham Gala, Friends of the Priory, St Abbs Parish....

Note: The gala page is now a page on this site. Previous years gala pages can be accessed from the Coldingham menu.

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Village History

All the history curently available can be accessed from the Coldingham Village Page.

As previously mentioned this page of cards, each with a page link, that can be filtered by History, Community and Notable Rsidents.

To assist you the link below will pass over a predesignated filter to show only the history cards.

You also have links to a few of the most visited pages below.

For example, take RAF Crossslaw, home to 617 signals unit. Operational from 16th April 1953 to the 31st August 1956, click link below for more ...

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Attractions & Activities

A selection of links to external sites that provide you with more information for a Day Out, energetic or otherwise, in and around the Scottish Borders.

This may walking the Berwickshire Coastal Foot Path, Swimming, Museum of Flight or just taking in the Sights.

Just look at the image on this card, part of the Berwickshire Coastal Foot Path and Was featured in an episode of Vera and the Whiskey Galore remake !!

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Days Out

Lots to do, lots to see

A page with subsequent links to a few selected web sites for a day out in and around the Berwickshire. Whether its activity indoors or oudoors or a just a relaxing day you hopefully will find something of interest.

Note : The external sites will have significantly more information.

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Self Catering

May provide some assitance for your visit/stay !!

From self catering cottages to glamping pods have a look. You will find the necessary links to make an enquiry or to book on each page. You will probably be redirected to a holiday booking site. Please note the content of each page is the responsibility of the property owners as its a free service and what is shown is essentially what has been provided.

Worth checking out !!...

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Local Businesses

A variety of local businesses that may be able to assist you. What more can you say...

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Contact Form

First of all, do please get in touch, it would be good to hear from you.

To give you just one idea of how it's used. If you wish if you wish to add your event to the website events page then just complete and submit the contact form and we will be in touch, your email being important !!. Historical information and images always welcome.

Regarding events, in addition to the text, if possible, please attach a poster as a pdf, word docuemnt or image and we will do the rest. We shall respond providing the website's email address which can be used for future communication, events, or subsequent images etc... The more notice that can be provided the better. Check out the events page and poster summary, ideal for smaller devices, mobiles etc..

No poster image, then do not worry. We can create a basic no frills poster image for you..

Having your event here can really difference to the turnout and success on the day(s) of your event !!

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