KILMARONOCK OLD KIRK
MARY SWEETLAND –
Coordinating Fundraising Trustee
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Mary is a statistician and was a senior NHS Manager with responsibility for over 600 staff.
Qualifications: BSC Statistics, MBA.
Other relevant experience: Chair of a small environmental charity as well as being a trustee for several others, including Kilmaronock Community Trust. Lifelong volunteer; led fundraising for a new Brownie House for Guiding Scotland. Elder in Lomond Parish Church.
Carol Service – Sunday 15th December 2024
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Our Carols by Candlelight Service will take place in the kirk on Sunday 15th December at 3.00pm. The service will be led by the Reverend John Murning and the Gartocharn B Flats will be taking part. This will be the sixth ecumenical service of 2024.
Following the carol service, mince pies, mulled wines, coffee and tea will be available.
All ages are most welcome. Come join us if you can.
KILMARONOCK OLD KIRK
Thursday 20th March 2025 at 3.00pm
Local Christian Fellowship Gathering. All welcome – learn more about this long established local fellowship.
Sunday 11th May 2025 10.30am
Annual Plant Sale, Craft Stalls, Raffle, Coffee and Cake, Heritage and Graveyard tours. All welcome. Interested stall holders please contact Chrissie Bilsland 07786 377908.
AMANDA BROOKES – CO-OPTED TRUSTEE
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Amanda has lived in various countries and had many varied roles, teacher in Florida followed by many years as Print and Copy Shop in Episcopal Church there.
Her latest role was English Tour Guide in Frankfurt, Germany. She is hoping to play an active role where needed in Kilmaronock Kirk.
PHASE 3 Internal Renovation Works – May 2025
We are very pleased to announce that, further to the notification in November 2024 of our successful application to The National Lottery Heritage Fund, we have now been successful in further recent funding applications and this has allowed us to reach the required matched funding level. This recent success has included awards from Historic Environment Scotland (£25k) and from the FCC Communities Foundation (£40k). We gratefully acknowledge these and other funds pledged and received.
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We have a preferred bidder in place as well as a heritage interpretation and installation provider. We have permission to proceed from TNLHF and once similar is received from both HES and FCCCF we will be in a position to sign contracts and begin the internal works programme.
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This work started in June 2025. ​
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700th Celebratory Mass on the Feast Day of St Margaret
Led by Canon Peter McBride
Sunday 16th November 2025
3.00pm in Kilmaronock Old Kirk​​​
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All welcome – join us for a celebratory mass marking 700 years since King Robert the Bruce authorised the Abbot of Cambuskenneth to hold services on our site, and to celebrate the completion of our internal refurbishment.