283 April 2018 - Gryffe Advertizer
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
The Advertizer - Your local community magazine to the Gryffe area. The Advertizer is a local business directory including a what's on guide and other local information and an interesting mix of articles.
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Don’t forget . . . 1st <strong>April</strong> - Easter Sunday<br />
Paisley Food & Drink Festival<br />
On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of <strong>April</strong> the very best of Scotland’s producers will showcase their wares<br />
to visitors in Paisley’s iconic Abbey Close, where they can experience tasting sessions with the likes of<br />
Gin71 as well as a fantastic selection of street food vendors from the pit, interactive workshops, live<br />
music and Scotland’s largest real ale festival.<br />
The Friday evening will see Gin71 run one of their popular gin tasting sessions and visitors can also relax<br />
at The Rum Shack Glasgow’s bar and enjoy some acoustic live music.<br />
The Saturday offers a real festival atmosphere with delicious dishes on offer from the likes of Three<br />
Sisters Bake, the ever popular Farmers’ Market and an eclectic mix of street food vendors. Smaller<br />
portion sizes for children and a range of halal, gluten free, veggie and vegan options will be on offer and<br />
visitors will also be able to sample a wide range of craft beers, small batch gins and prosecco on tap<br />
from Fizzbuz Valentino the prosecco van.<br />
Cooking demonstrations will take place with a celebrity chef, who will be announced soon, to allow<br />
visitors to learn the best tricks of the trade and children will have the opportunity to get some hands-on<br />
foodie-fun experiences. There will also be a live music entertainment and giant lawn games providing<br />
all the ingredients for a great day out.<br />
Kids can pop along and say ‘Ello!’ with Mr Bloom’s Nursery Live. There will be a bundle of veggie stories,<br />
gardening games, and catchy nursery songs, a famous aubergine once said; “Let’s sing and dance and<br />
have some fun!”<br />
The festival will run alongside the Paisley Beer Festival which will take place from Wednesday 25<br />
to Saturday 28 <strong>April</strong> run by the Renfrewshire branch of the CAMRA - the Campaign for Real Ale, the<br />
consumer’s champion, which attracts people from all over Scotland and beyond.<br />
Paisley’s Food and Drink Festival really is a fantastic showcase of Scotland’s vibrant street food scene,<br />
with the very best seasonal ingredients and sustainably sourced and hand reared produce – you would<br />
be nuts to miss it! Visit www.paisley.is for more information.<br />
SYT threat of closure now lifted<br />
In January this year, Scottish Youth Theatre learned that they had not been successful in their application<br />
for regular funding from Creative Scotland for the period <strong>2018</strong>-21. This represented a gap of around a<br />
third of their required income.<br />
After the news from Creative Scotland, SYT worked on many business models, a variety of cost cutting<br />
exercises and discussed how to better collaborate to share costs and resources with like-minded<br />
organisations. However sadly, without a realistic expectation that they would be successful in securing<br />
financial support in such a limited time to meet the significant funding gap, the SYT announced that<br />
they were left with no other realistic option but to cease trading on 31st July <strong>2018</strong>.<br />
However, the threat of closure of Scottish Youth Theatre has been lifted thanks to The Scottish<br />
Government offer to match-fund pledges of financial support from the private sector, including<br />
investment management firm, Baillie Gifford & Co. With this joint backing, the organisation has a<br />
foundation on which to achieve a long-term sustainable business model.<br />
SYT will engage with experts from across the cultural and business sectors to build a model that is<br />
accessible and sustainable. The significant pledge of support from Baillie Gifford has enabled SYT to<br />
develop a funding partnership with the Scottish Government which allows the company to continue to<br />
deliver life-changing live arts experiences for young people in Scotland. SYT also welcome the offer from<br />
Creative Scotland to explore alternative funding routes.<br />
Jacky Hardacre, Scottish Youth Theatre’s Chief Executive stated, “With a future now secured for Scottish<br />
Youth Theatre, our focus is firmly on ensuring the nation’s young people have their own thriving national<br />
theatre company to engage with, be inspired by and to aspire to be a part of.”<br />
“We would also like to acknowledge the continuing support of the youth arts sector who will be important<br />
partners in the coming months. A heartfelt thank you to them all.”<br />
deadline date for our may issue - Friday 13th <strong>April</strong> - You don’t want to miss it!!
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