Disability Equality Scotland are holding a series of five online engagement events from June to September aiming to reach disabled island and rural residents. Please find below the dates and registration links:
Elect Her are inviting women across Scotland to join free online workshops where they will provide all the information they need to help start a journey towards becoming a councillor.
Women will learn what councillors do, how to put themselves forward for selections, how to campaign, and what to expect in elected office.
Stirling Council is requesting feedback from Thornhill residents about areas for development to be included in the Local Development Plan. The consultation is open until 23rd July.
Saturday 9 May – Plant sale at the Community Hall.
As well as plants, teas, coffees and delicious home baking on Saturday 9 May, we will be seeking your views on what you would like to see from the TGS and what a membership offer might look like… speakers and talks, trips to Scottish Gardens. Come along and tell us or download and fill in the questionnaire to help us improve TGS. You can return it to us at the plant sale. Download here.
Ruth, as Tombola Convener will be contacting generous local businesses for donations and we welcome any donations for the plant sale and flower show raffles and tombolas.
The Flower Show Schedule will be available at the plant sale and the Village Store as well as digitally. We look forward to your entries.
We hope to see you in May and thank you to those who have contacted us to express an interest in becoming involved.
This month’s Super Draw is a £1,000 IKEA gift card and offers the perfect opportunity for you to refresh your homes and gardens for summer – whether that’s creating an outdoor space for BBQs and family time, or giving your interiors a stylish update. If you prefer, you could win a cash prize to spend wherever you like.
Thornhill Development Trust is a charity which relies of donations and fundraising so if you choose to support TDT in the community lottery they receive 60% of your ticket price back- AND you have chance of the weekly £25,000 prize as well as the monthly super prize worth £1000.
Why not visit our lottery page to sign up and buy your tickets- don’t forget to choose TDT as your preferred good cause.
RHET (Royal Highland Education Trust) is a local choir, mostly farmers and their wives and we raise funds to take school children to farms to learn about where food comes from.
You are invited to a concert at Briarlands Farm on Sunday 26th April, 6.30 pm.
Stirling Council are inviting notes of interest to be part of the first Stirling Visitor Levy Advisory Forum – an exciting opportunity to shape how we invest in and grow Stirling’s vital tourism economy.
The Forum will play a central role in ensuring transparency, collaboration and the effective delivery of the Stirling Visitor Levy Scheme. Approved by Stirling Council in December 2025, the scheme will introduce a 3% levy on all paid overnight visitor accommodation stays within the council area. It will apply to bookings made from 1 January 2027 for stays on or after 14 June 2027.
To ensure a broad and balanced membership, the Forum will bring together people with the skills, and experience found across Stirlingshire’s diverse tourism sector, to best reflect the strengths and assets of the region. It is planned that the Forum will have a good balance of representatives from local communities, businesses engaged in tourism, and tourist organisations.
The Forum will advise on how the scheme operates and will provide guidance on how income from the levy is spent, with final decisions taken by Stirling Council following consultation with Forum members. An independent Chair, who is awaiting official confirmation in the role following a recruitment process, will lead the Forum and support the recruitment of its members.
All positions are voluntary and non-executive, with expenses covered. Membership will be reviewed regularly to ensure the Forum remains representative and effective.
Further information for accommodation providers is now available to view on the Visitor Levy section of the Stirling Council website. Additional information will be added throughout the implementation process.
In various different ways 65 people in our community have taken part in the Energy Project supported by Thornhill Development Trust (TDT) and Forth Environment Link (FEL).
Following a launch event in December 2025 all households in the TDT area were invited to take part in a survey of their heating and power usage.
A further meeting on 23rd March gave the results of the survey and allowed for further questions.
1. The Report on the project in a presentation from Jon Cape and Alistair Roberts , Power Circle Projects (PCP)
This project is now complete and the outcomes will be reported to our funder FEL Scotland shortly. The organisers are very grateful to them to have had this opportunity to work with PCP and to look to the future of fair and efficient energy solutions for the home.
We have two Defibrillator machines in the village – do you know where they are and how to use them? You could save a life! Come along and find out how.
