DGRU Event Support

25/10/2026

Household Waste Recycling Centres - Update
Due to the weather conditions, the following Household Waste Recycling Centres are now closed:

Thornhill
Lockerbie
Lincluden
Sanquhar

Other recycling sites across the region may also be affected throughout the day.

25/10/2026

A very generous gesture from the people at the Waterfront takeaway.

25/10/2026

Having been scouring the world of facebook and X to be able to update you all on incidents around the area, the biggest one I have managed to find that’s unreported to Dumfries & Galloway Virtual Operations Support Team and Dumfries & Galloway Weather and Travel Updates is the fact I seem to have acquired a grass box for a lawnmower overnight.

On a serious note, keep safe everyone! If I do hear of anything I will post it!

25/10/2026

Anybody able to help out with this?

25/10/2026

Please take note, this is the latest (well about an hour ago!) from Dumfries & Galloway Virtual Operations Support Team regarding the white sands and the river.

*Whitesands update*

Although water levels have dropped somewhat in the last couple of hours, forecasting shows that the river Nith will enter the car park(s) and road later this morning. With this in mind, please follow the signage and do not park on the Whitesands in Dumfries. We will advise when car parks are open again once the area has been inspected and cleaned up.

05/09/2026

🦶 marathon route🦶

📍start- Wallace hall car park

⏰ start time- 7 am

Our sponsored walk will begin at Wallace hall, we will then walk 26.2 miles around the countryside surrounding Thornhill. The walk will then finish at Thornhill golf club where we will hold our post sponsored walk social!

Ps. If you’d like to join in for some of the walk but not the full way that is totally fine, everyone is welcome to walk as far as they’d like!

Anyone wishing to take part please message Sofia and she will give you a sponsorship sheet!

Everyone is welcome to come along and support us during or after the walk😊

If anyone has any questions please ask Sofia young or Paige marchbank.

05/09/2026

Please find the route for this years Dumfries Charity Tractor Road Run starting from Porterstown Farm Keir DG3 4DJ.

On Sunday 20th, setting off at 10.30am.

Please confirm your place your place.

05/09/2026

Our tractor road run will be on Sunday 20th Sept starting from Porterstown Farm, Keir, by the kind permission of the Fry Family.

Setting off at 10.30am.

This event is open to any tractor new or vintage but they must be insured to do so.

In aid of Maggies Cancer centre that is being planned for at Dumfries and Galloways Royal Infirmary.

15/08/2026

A rare weekend off!! No events, no riding horses, just actually being able to get stuff done at the house.

A massive thanks to Ashley and my parents for getting things back under control after several weeks of nothing being done in the garden. As usual it’s the people behind the scenes that make the biggest difference. Without the support of the people, irrespective of how big any event is, very little would get done. I say raise a glass to all the in named people working behind the scenes keeping normal life going for those arranging the events.

As always I’m eternally grateful for the support from everyone at home.

04/07/2026

We were at an event today and it reminded me of just how close we can be to danger. I won’t name the event, and what happened was absolutely no fault of the organisers whatsoever.

While waiting for the evening part of today’s event quite a few locals came out of the pub and on to the street. Nothing unusual about that, but within minutes all hell broke out. Thankfully police were on site very quickly, but none the less one of our volunteers was caught up in the middle of it. Thankfully he was not hurt whatsoever and once he was able to returned to the rest of us. The police did what they do and detained some of the people responsible. Minutes later however, a repeat fight broke out further up the road. Yet again the police did what they do and dealt with it. At this point I thought great. Let’s get on with the actual planned entertainment. A couple of hours pass and thankfully I’ve we had police back within the vicinity, yet another fight broke out. This was very quickly moved away from the massed crowds and dealt with up a side street. This then led to ALL the police having to take the detained back to the station to process them. This then left our group as the sole providers for protection. We were spread thin enough on the ground as it was, and due to this certain bus drivers decided to move the road closed signs and cones and come up the closed off high street. This stupidity of the driver actually ended up putting a lot of people in danger as without the signs and cones in place, car drivers also ended up trying to access the closed off area. As we have no legal right to close roads off, we were left in the situation of what do we do. Thankfully after a talking to a lot of the drivers moved out of the area and I did put the signs and cones back out.

Essentially what I’m saying is, due to the selfish acts of those fighting, this removed our police presence and actually put a few thousand people in danger.

Please if you are heading out to events, drink responsibly and enjoy the day.

A massive thank to Police Scotland Dumfries & Galloway officers for sorting things out.