Longniddry Gala

28/02/2025

Thank you all for coming to our first “Burns Night” Ceilidh!

Special thanks go to all our volunteers, musicians and performers, everyone did such a great job! Thanks also to our caterers Celtic Catering Ltd and our dessert baking volunteers!

We would also like to thank the Longniddry Community Centre Management Committee for donating the hall and staff for free!

26/02/2025

🚨 WE HAVE 6 TICKETS AVAILABLE! 🚨

Due to illness we have 6 tickets given back to us to resell for Fridays ceilidh! They are £10 each (under 3s free) and include ceilidh dancing, performances and burns supper buffet.

If anyone would like them, please message the page and it’s first come first served so be quick!

24/02/2025

📣 Calling for Donations: Chocolate & Bottle Tombola! 📣

Gala Day isn’t until the 7th of June, but we’re kicking off our collection now to build an epic prize pool for our tombola – and we need your help! We’re collecting any chocolates and bottles you can spare. Whether it’s leftover Christmas treats, a spare bar, bubble bath, soft drink, or even a cheeky tipple, if it’s chocolate or it comes in a bottle, we’d love to have it.

Please drop your items off at the Community Centre, or get in touch with us below to arrange a collection.

23/02/2025

📣 Important Event Information! 📣

Our rescheduled Burns Supper Ceilidh is on Friday and we can’t wait to welcome you all!

Here’s a low down of the running order so you know what to expect as well as some important info

5pm start - please note the entertainment will start promptly so the sooner you arrive the better.
5.10pm address to the haggis and performance
5.30pm ceilidh
6-7pm dinner
7pm ceilidh
7.30pm finish

🍰 Dessert Auction 🍰

As part of our fundraising we will be holding an auction for some yummy desserts! This will be done through dinner and there will be 8 desserts that are up for grabs! These will be enough to feed your table and can be eaten at the event. To win a dessert, you will place bids and the highest bid will win the dessert! Please be prepared for the children on your table to be very excited and want to bid for their pudding! Some examples of desserts available will be sticky toffee pudding and lemon meringue pie! 🤤

If you miss out on a dessert in the auction there will also be a stall with shortbread and tablet for sale for your sweet treat after dinner.

We will also have a chocolate and Teddy tombola as well as soft drinks bar available and we can take cash and cards for all payments.

Any questions let us know!

10/02/2025

Thank you to Longniddry Pharmacy for continuing to support the Gala! They have this huge bucket that can drop your loose change in and it’s already looking pretty full! It will be collected for counting in May so still plenty time to donate next time you are in! Thanks to our mini volunteer Joshua - Chief Bucket Officer - for keeping an eye on it and updating the poster each year!

08/02/2025

CALLING ALL COMMUNITY CHAMPIONS!

The gala committee have an exciting schedule of community events planned leading up to Gala week but we need your help to make it happen! Sadly, come June some long-serving committee members will be stepping down.

We’d love to welcome some new members to learn from them before they leave—and to share fresh ideas for our future events!

Option 1: Join Our Gala Committee.

Friendly Monthly Meetings: light-hearted, welcoming, and full of good conversation, ideas, planning and co-ordinating.

Option 2: Volunteer pool

No meetings required, you’ll only hear from us when we need extra help. You decide which tasks and events work for you with no pressure from us.

Why Volunteer?

Meet friendly folks, join a welcoming group of people who love organizing community events. Grow your teamwork, organization, and leadership skills in a relaxed, supportive setting. Plus it really is great fun!!

Any time you can give will make a difference.

Interested or want to learn more?
Send us a message. We can’t wait to hear from you!

07/02/2025

There’s 3 weeks to go until our rescheduled ceilidh!

This is your last chance to let us know if you are no longer able to attend the new date of 28th February so we can issue refunds and give spaces to those who want to come.

Please let us know by Monday 10th if you can no longer come!

29/01/2025

💰Calling all Tesco Haddington shoppers!💰

We have been nominated for the Tesco Stronger Starts Blue Token scheme at Tesco Haddington!

From now until the end of March, please consider choosing us to benefit from the scheme to win up to £1500!! This will be a huge amount of money for us which we will be able to put towards making our Gala events bigger, better and more affordable for all!

Spread the word!

27/01/2025

📣 Rescheduled Burns Night Ceilidh 📣

We are happy to announce that we have been able to reschedule our ceilidh to 28th February!

We really hope that you will all still be able to join us and enjoy the dancing, performances and food from Celtic Catering Ltd

If you have tickets and now cannot attend this new date, we are really sorry. Please get in touch with us and we can arrange a refund for you. All ticket holders should be receiving an email from us as well so please look out for that!

Thank you for your patience and understand

25/01/2025

📣 Burns Night Ceilidh 📣

Please bare with us while we get in touch with all the key people we need to make sure we can book a new date to have our Burns Ceilidh!

We should hopefully be able to announce a new date early next week.If the new date then doesn’t suit any ticket holders we can arrange refunds.

Hopefully you all have a lovely Burn’s Night tonight! 🌹

23/01/2025

🛑 CEILIDH CANCELLED 🛑
Further to below we are very disappointed to confirm that tomorrow’s ceilidh is cancelled. We were delighted with the uptake in ticket sales and the committee had been busy organising to make sure it was a great night. However for the safety of everyone, it’s the right decision to cancel. Moving venue is not a viable option given it would mean people needing to travel. We are very sorry but hopefully people understand safety comes first. More info to follow shortly on potential revised date or refund options.
Thankyou for your understanding.
Longniddry Gala Committee

East Lothian is within the area covered by a Met Office Red warning for very strong winds associated with Storm Éowyn. This applies 10am-5pm on Friday. Our website & social media channels will continue to be updated with key info. Look out for updates: https://orlo.uk/j6ylL

22/01/2025

Only a couple days away from our first Burns Night Ceilidh!

A few questions from the playground this morning so thought we would put the answers here!

❓Do we have allocated seats? - we have assigned everyone tables to make sure we maximise the space available and when you arrive you will be told what table you are on. Your whole group will be together and we have done our best to combine groups that know each other!

❓ Do we wear kilts? - kilts and any tartan is encouraged but don’t worry if you don’t have anything!

❓what time does it start? - we will be starting prompt at 5.10pm so please make sure you are here in plenty time to be seated for then! We will do our best to get people in as quickly as possible at 5pm and there will be a cloakroom in operation so coats off in the queue for a quick entry!

If there are any more questions, let us know! Please see our previous post and email too for lots more information on what to expect

17/01/2025

📣 Important Event Information! 📣

Here’s a low down of the running order so you know what to expect as well as some important info

5pm start - please note the entertainment will start promptly so the sooner you arrive the better.
5.10pm address to the haggis and performance
5.30pm ceilidh
6-7pm dinner
7pm ceilidh
7.30pm finish

🍰 Dessert Auction 🍰

As part of our fundraising we will be holding an auction for some yummy desserts! This will be done through dinner and there will be 8 desserts that are up for grabs! These will be enough to feed your table and can be eaten at the event. To win a dessert, you will place bids and the highest bid will win the dessert! Please be prepared for the children on your table to be very excited and want to bid for their pudding! Some examples of desserts available will be sticky toffee pudding and lemon meringue pie! 🤤

If you miss out on a dessert in the auction there will also be a stall with shortbread and tablet for sale for your sweet treat after dinner.

We will also have a chocolate and Teddy tombola as well as soft drinks bar available and we can take cash and cards for all payments.

Any questions let us know!

13/01/2025

We are amazed how popular the Burns Night Ceilidh as been and we are sorry to say that it has now sold out (maybe oversold 🙈)!

We are trying to see if we can get any more tables in so if you are really keen to join but missed out on tickets, we have a waiting list that you can sign up to here https://www.tickettailor.com/events/longniddrygala/1522760

We apologise if anyone has missed out and thank you for all the support!

12/01/2025

A big thank you to our decor factory Elaine Clarke for helping us make sustainable decorations for our events! She made most of the garlands for our curry night from scraps of fabric collected locally and now she’s on to tartan bunting and table runners for the Ceilidh!
She also moonlights as the P1/2 Ceilidh teacher and will be our ceilidh caller as well!

10/01/2025

2 weeks today we will be living our best lives at our Burns Night Ceilidh and we can’t wait to welcome you all! We are in for a real treat with a traditional ceilidh - not just the dancing but poetry and song from some of our wee bairns too!

Tickets are already selling fast thanks to the primary kids being super enthusiastic about learning the dances in school. If you are planning to come, please do get your tickets quickly as we don’t want you to miss out and we also need to provide the caterer with numbers next week

We also want to make sure we are inclusive as possible so if there are any adjustments that would make it easier for you to attend, please message us and we will do our best. For example we know there will be a lot of lively music so we will have our 6 sets of headphones available for borrowing if there’s anyone sensitive to loud noises

06/01/2025

No sooner has the Christmas tree all been packed away and the kids gone back to school (🙌🙌) that we are in full planning mode for our first gala event of 2025!!

You will be treated to music from local musicians to dance along to as well as family friendly calling on all dances.

There will also be a Burns Supper buffet with traditional Haggis (and veggie), Neeps and Tatties as well as a Mince and Tatties option. All Longniddry Primary children will be learning the ceilidh dances as part of their PE classes in the next few weeks so don’t worry about them not knowing what to do!

Ceilidh and Burns Supper all for £10 per person. Under 3s are free however you must still purchase a ticket so we can keep track of numbers. This price covers the price of our catering cost only so Longniddry Gala committee have decided to subsidise all additional event costs to keep the price for families to attend as low as possible.

To get your tickets go to - https://www.tickettailor.com/events/longniddrygala/1522760

04/01/2025

📣 DATE CORRECTION 📣 The Family Burns Night will be on FRIDAY 24 JANUARY, not Saturday 25 January per advert below. Apologies for the confusion. Tickets will be released soon so keep a look out 👀!

If your house is anything like mine, getting to 2025 intact will be an achievement.......however if you are in better shape and are looking to plan ahead for our first event of 2025 then look no further....

Introducing our Family Burns Night 2025 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A brand new event in our Gala calendar will be fun for all the family as a night of Burns, music and dancing and food will come to the Longniddry Community Centre on the 25th Jan between 5pm and 7.30pm.

Don't worry we aren't asking for you to buy tickets yet, that will come in the new year, but just make note of the date for now and it's not too late to ask Santa for the complete works of Burns.