Ardentinny Christmas Singalong this Friday!

As a thank you and to celebrate Christmas, the Village Hall Management Group would like to invite the village to a sing along at the Ardentinny Bistro.
There will be live music, Christmas carols and other songs.

A free buffet will be provided from 6pm and the bar will be open for you to buy drinks until closing at 11pm.

Although this is a closed function for the village for the night, any guests who may be visiting you over the festive period are very welcome to come too.

This is a chance for everyone to get together and have a good time and basically, another excuse to have a party.

Ardentinny Village Hall.

Footnote: Check out here how the village celebrated Christmas way back in 2007

October 15, 2023February 28, 2026

Ardentinny Community Council Meeting – Minutes 5 Sept, 2023

Minutes of Ardentinny Community Council meeting held on 5 September, 2023 in Ardentinny Village Hall.

October 5, 2023February 28, 2026

Prodigious pumpkin is star of the show

Patron of Glenfinart Walled Garden, Sophie Thomson had the limelight overshadowed last weekend by of all things a monster pumpkin! Sophie, who was taking some time out from her busy acting career to raise funds for the popular community garden, was in charge of the confectionary stall and the guess the weight of the vast veggie competition at Sunday’s Harvest Fair.

The enormous pumpkin was grown in the garden by Jan Honolee and came in at a hefty 32 kilos! Winner of the competition was Frauke Thornton who won a tin of sweets and a normal size pumpkin.

This year the sun shone for the annual event which has been held since 2013 and attracted a large crowd of visitors who were entertained by the young at heart Elderly Brothers as well as an impromptu appearance by local Jim Robinson.

Visitors were welcomed at the gate with a complimentary glass of apple juice, fresh from the garden’s orchard and other attractions included the ever-popular coconut shy, bottle stall, wooden crafts, garden produce, burgers and Ardentinny’s unique selection of home baking.

Rounding the day off, was the grand finale of Quickest Quackers, the ultimate duck race down the River Finart. Fastest duck of the day was sponsored by Tom Williamson with second and third place going to Lesley Boyce and Jemma McCluskey.

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September 29, 2023February 28, 2026

Harvest Fair at Glenfinart Walled Garden this Sunday!

Harvest Fair at Glenfinart Walled Garden, Ardentinny, Sunday 1 October.
Live music with the Elderly Brothers + Coconut Shy, Pressed Apple Juice, Home Baking & Preserves, Bottle Stall, Garden Produce, Teas & Coffees, Tastes of the Garden & Stalls Galore! Great day out for the family & FREE ENTRY!

September 17, 2023February 28, 2026

New sculpture unveiled at Glenfinart Walled Garden

International environmental artist and sculptor Kathy Bruce of Dunoon MOCA has donated her latest work ‘Anna: Joy of the Garden’ to Glenfinart Walled Garden in Ardentinny. This spectacular living sculpture was created from and continues to grow in the garden, as was demonstrated at a small public presentation on Sunday 10th September, 2023.

Born in New York, Kathy received an M.F.A. from Yale University School of Art and a certificate from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Recipient of a Fulbright Hayes Senior Scholarship Grant for Lecturing and Research in Puno, Peru and a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, she has exhibited in the US, Senegal, Taiwan, France, Denmark, Peru, Canada, and the UK. Most recently in Caol Ruadh Sculpture Park, Colintraive and now Ardentinny!

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