Month: December 2025

Functional Fitness Test

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Case Study: Helen Wood From Functional Fitness Test to StrongHER Success In March, Helen Wood completed the Functional Fitness Test, a seven-exercise assessment designed to provide an overall of mobility, strength, balance, and cardiovascular ability. Motivated by her results and inspired to build confidence in her strength, Helen joined Lyndsey’s 6-week StrongHER programme shortly after. … Read more

D&G Community Bulletin

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Friday 19 December 2025 Welcome to Community, your Dumfries and Galloway community bulletin.  We are always keen to hear of any positive stories about things that are happening in your community and would like to feature them in Community. Please email us at communitybulletin@dumgal.gov.uk and one of our reporters will get back to you. Gatehouse Welcomes … Read more

D&G Council Festive Opening Hours

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Our council’s festive opening hours are now live on our website. This provides information on bin-collection arrangements, homelessness and housing options, registration offices, social work and more. We are immensely grateful to the teams and staff who are working over the festive period to support those in our region. You can view our festive opening … Read more

Community Alert – Housebreakings

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Police Scotland, nationally, and locally, have encountered a rise in housebreakings over the past weeks, and as such we are alerting you and the communities to this, detailing actions and steps which can be taken to attempt to prevent falling victim to this. Click here for more information.

Cyberbyte from Police Scotland

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Message from Neighbourhood Watch Scotland Cyberbyte – December 2025 Hello, Click here for this month’s Cyberbyte and please feel free to share it with your own family, friends and other contacts. I can hardly believe we are in December 2025, this year has absolutely flown in. It has been a pleasure contacting you and I do hope the … Read more