FS is excited to announce the return of the WILD GOOSE FESTIVAL: Fairground Walkabout - It’s a Fair History! Sat, 22 October 2022, 13:30 – 15:00 BST 🎠🚶🎡 Learn about the long history of the Dumfries Fun Fairs and the Travelling Showpeople: eventbrite.co.uk/e/wild-goose-f…

🎄 🎅 Riverside Museum Christmas Market 🎅 🎄 Sat 26th Nov, 10– 4.30pm Sun 27th Nov, 11– 4.30pm Our Christmas Market & Festive Funfair is back with 40 stalls inside the museum selling handmade and crafted gifts for all your family and friends! glasgowlife.org.uk/event/1/rivers…

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This was last night, as people wait in the cold for food Nicola Sturgeon Cllr Allan Casey Scottish Government First Minister Glasgow City Council Leader of GlasgowCC you all have the power to help us get a building to bring homeless, vulnerable, hungry inside to eat a hot meal every day 7days a week CAN HELP US ???

We couldn't agree more Mental Health Foundation 🐱🐶🐇🐎 #showmensmentalhealth #mentalhealth #fairgroundindustry #selfcare #happy #love #wellness #supportingfamilies #standingtogether #stress

The Princess of Wales The Prince and Princess of Wales & #ShapingUs Champion Roman Kemp speak about the importance of mental wellbeing, relationships & the impact of nurturing children in their earliest years. Together, we can build a society of healthy, happy adults for generations to come.

✍️📖"Flattie: Memories of a Reluctant Traveller" is a new book by Scottish Showperson Jean Stirling, published by Troubadour Publications 🎠🎡 Any profits made from the sale of Jean's Memoir will be donated to Cancer Research UK. Get your copy here: troubador.co.uk/bookshop/autob…

"This is the story of how we lived, and the culture of the showpeople of that time, who set out every spring in good faith, hauling everything, homes, families, stalls, from place to place, praying that the weather would be kind and the season profitable” - JS Troubadour

Our final plaque tells the sad tale of the last lowland haggis, which was killed in the grounds of what is now Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum in the west end of Glasgow in 1842. #glasgow #kelvingrove #haggis #aprilfoolsday #glasgowhistory #kelvingroveartgallery

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🎪 Exciting News! The Rood Fair is returning to Dumfries! 🎉 And so is the annual FAIRGROUND WALKABOUT! Book your FREE place: Bit.ly/FairgroundWalk #fairgroundindustry #fairground #showpeople #walkingtour #community #Dumfries #DumfriesandGalloway #RoodFair #fairgrounds #fair

📽Fairground Walkabout Topics Revealed! Mark your calendars for this Thursday and BOOK YOUR FREE PLACE Bit.ly/FairgroundWalk #fairground #showpeople #Dumfries #DumfriesandGalloway #RoodFair #wildgoosefestival2023 #SISFImagine #CreativeDumfries #MakingDumfries #TalesOfScotland

📣Thnx to all who came to our Fairground Walkabout yesterday! 🎠We heard stories from #Showpeople who have been travelling to #Dumfries for generations - & the☀️ even came out! 🎡Don’t forget the Rood Fair is on all weekend - come out and support this historic #funfair!

🎡 The Rood Fair was well attended this year, and so was our Fairground Walkabout. Thanks to everyone who came along!🙏 ‼BUT the future of Dumfries Fairs are now uncertain - Find out why in the thread 👇 #fairground #showpeople #Dumfries #wildgoosefestival2023 #SISFImagine

The Stove Network ShowmenTimes @Future4fairs @Dialectographer Richard O'Neill The Showmen's Mental Health Charity Future 4 Fairgrounds dr t s Beall Matt Baker Katharine Wheeler BBC Radio Scotland BBC Scotland Dumfries Standard Dumfries & Galloway! What's Going On? Dumfries & Galloway Council Museums bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotla…

📣 🎪#Dumfries’ historical #RoodFair was featured on ITV News Border — check out this historical look back thru an important part of #DumfriesandGalloway’s #history 👀 /1 🙏RT The Stove Network @Future4fairs ShowmenTimes Dumfries and Galloway Council World's Fair Newspaper dr t s Beall @Dialectographer @AndreaSalvona

🎥🎡ITV News Border interviewed Showperson Geraldine Reid — who has been travelling to #Dumfries for the Rood #Fair for most of her life! 🗣️🎠 A Certificate of Appreciation for #WorldFunfairMonth was presented by Alex Colquhoun to Dumfries and Galloway Council’s Provost Johnstone /2 #RoodFair #history

Recently, the UK Govt. decided to ratify the UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of Intangible Cultural Heritage. This presents an opportunity for Fairs and the culture built around them to apply for ICH status, something that can help safeguard their future... 🧵

The consultation form uses a lot of 'govt speak' so FS has developed some guidance notes to share advice we have received from ICH experts. This includes suggested responses, but feel free to fill it in as you see fit! You can find the guidance here: drive.google.com/file/d/15afuTv…

If you have any questions that the notes do not answer, then please do DM us and we'll do what we can to help!