News This Month

Cllr Cathy McEwan Volunteers are being praised after more than 70 Team Up to Clean Up litter picks took place across the winter period in Renfrewshire. The award-winning campaign saw 278 volunteers take … Read more

A budget building on long-term commitments and investing in Renfrewshire communities has been agreed by councillors today (Monday 9 March 2020). The £440million budget includes a new fund to help tackle the climate … Read more

Morag Thow, Co-Founder Image credit Di Finn I caught up with Morag to ask her about the festival, how it started, her favourite moments and other village projects. The Lochwinnoch Festival is in … Read more

Christine answers the phone with a wonderfully husky voice. One that would not be out of place, you’d imagine, in the jazz music halls of 1920s Paris. An era to which she is … Read more

This month, we catch up with Christine Bovill whose show ‘Christine Bovill’s Piaf’ garnered a swathe of five star reviews. In 2017 she picked up ‘The Spirit of the Fringe Award’ for her … Read more

I am certainly feeling my age this month. It was 25 years ago in February 1995 that I first started publishing The Advertizer, then just a black and white four page newssheet, delivered … Read more

Our Museum re-imagined L-R:  Jules O’Brien (Kairos volunteer) Cllr Lisa Marie Hughes, Victoria Hollows (Chief Executive, Renfrewshire Leisure); Katy Wilson-Scott (Kairos Manager); Cath Gibson (Kairos volunteer), Martyn Wade Kairos Women’s Space are working … Read more