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The President’s Welcome Message.
Mike Duguid
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Latest News ...... The Channel 4 show Come Dine With Me is coming up to Ayrshire in September to film a show. They are interested in any Burnsians in that area who fancy themselves as good cooks, and who might be able to give a Burns slant to the programme. If anyone is interested more details can be downloaded here =========================== A NICHT WI BURNS The members of Armadale bessie burns club along with the Fauldhouse and crofthead burns club are staging A NICHT WI BURNS concert at the Howden Park Theatre Livingston on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th August at 7:30 pm. The concert will feature the poems and songs of our National Bard with all proceeds going to Scottish Charities. Last years show was a great success and raised some £1200 for Motor Nuerones association, this years target is £4000. and with the support of the Burns clubs we are confident of acheiving this sum. Tickets are available from the box office by phone 01506 777666 or online at www.howdenparkcentre.co.uk priced at £10 and £8:00. =========================== Viewing of Letter ===========================
The Special 250th anniversary limited edition of the Burns Chronicle is now available! Including details of many of the events that took place in 2009. With over 700 pages and entries from many contributors including clubs, academics and individuals, this is sure to be popular.
Available NOW, for a cost of £25 inc p&p in UK or £30 overseas. Forms were included with the last Chronicle or simply get in touch with Sam Judge at head office, with your details. His email and phone number are on this website. Only 1000 of these are being printed and they are selling fast so order yours now! Dowload forms here as WORD & PDF ========================= Hold a Burns Super Supper in your own home and raise money for charity
Click here to download details in WORD or as PDF ===================== President Mike Duguid has a very active blog. See links below for some of the postings.... The Festival of St Andrew 6/12/09 Mike Duguid (President) had the pleasure and honour of leading the Federation delegation at the annual Festival of St Andrew Service at St Giles Cathedral on Edinburgh's Royal Mile. Margaret Morrall (President Ayr Burns Club) also contributed some pictures.
Representative of Grand Lodge of Scotland: =================== Meeting with Burns Descendant ... 21/11/09 It was a great pleasure for the President to meet with Janet Elsie-May Coom, the great, great, great granddaughter of the poet through Anna Park, barmaid at the Globe Inn, Dumfries.
First Minister meets essay competition winner Following a comprehensive tour of the Paliament building, fourteen year-old Seraphima Nechaeva met the First Minister, Alec Salmond, and delivered an abridged version of her essay in perfect English, and occasional Scots, and demonstrated powerfully why she had been chosen as the winner.
Shirley's Farewell. Goodbye to our Chief Executive..and welcome to Sam Judge A party was given for Shirley Bell our retiring Chief Executive There is an Invitation from The Auld Kirk of Ayr Homecoming Service on 13th December 2009 at 11am to all Robert Burns World Federation individual members and clubs Burns in Maybole. ====================== |
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Welcome to the website of the Robert Burns World Federation (RBWF) which has been designed to offer an effective means of communication about the life and works of Scotland’s national poet. We hope you make this your first point of contact when searching for information about the poet and we encourage you to take an active part in debate through the “Discussion Forum.” We also offer an “Expert Archive” in which you can read about, or contribute to, research topics on specific aspects of interest about the poet. The site carries copies of all his poems with helpful translations and many of his letters to help you to get to know and appreciate his rich and varied output.
