Ballater SWI

Ballater SWI SWI group based in Ballater

Dear ladies, we are hoping some of you may wish to put in some entries for the Garden Festival.Its a wonderful local eve...
06/08/2026

Dear ladies, we are hoping some of you may wish to put in some entries for the Garden Festival.
Its a wonderful local event which deserves our support!

17/06/2026

Ladies, we are planning an SWI table at the Golf Club fundraising bingo evening on 26th June, please get in touch if you would like to join us!!
They support us with our fund raising bingo evening, let's support them!! 😁
Contact Nikki or Sue (Frances is away)
Ballater & Crathie Community Group

We had the best time on our visit to Invercauld House. The view is phenomenal! We would like to thank the staff and gar...
22/05/2026

We had the best time on our visit to Invercauld House. The view is phenomenal!

We would like to thank the staff and garden designer Caz Osborne for her informative and very friendly tour of the gardens.

We would also like to thank you all for giving us your time and expertise and of course the peppermint tea and shortbread!! The parmesan crisps were heavenly 😍

We cannot show the house or statuary on social media, so hope you all enjoy this reminder of our visit.

Swi season is now finished for 25/26 and we look forward to 26/27 ,commencing in September.

Thank you ladies!

Ballater & Crathie Community Group
SWI Aberdeenshire Office
Scottish Women's Institutes

17/05/2026

REMINDER!!! 🌹🌸🌲
Tuesday 19th May, meet at the church at 6.15p.m
Our visit to Invercauld House Gardens. 🚶‍♀️🌺🌼🌷
We will try to car share as much as possible as there is limited parking.
Its not too late if you haven't signed up to come and join us!
Ballater & Crathie Community Group

Dear ladies,we would like to thank everyone who attended our AGM on 15th April. We were delighted that so many members ...
11/05/2026

Dear ladies,
we would like to thank everyone who attended our AGM on 15th April. We were delighted that so many members attended for our last meeting of the season.
For the AGM,
We enjoyed a welcome address from our president Ellie Kinghorn.
Apologies were received.
We confirmed the minutes, and discussed any correspondence.
We heard the secretary's report from Sue Rutherford.
The treasurer's report was given by Frances McCarthy.
The ballot was collected and processed for the new committee.
The new committee took office.
Trophies were presented.

Cup Winners for our 2025/2026 season are as follows.
Mary McPherson Quaich - Sue Rutherford
Marjorie Gordon Cup - Frances Mc Carthy
Presidents Cup - Jenny Mc Millan

We would like to thank the ladies from Campsie and Glassel SWI who counted the votes.

The committee for 2026/2027 is as follows

President - Ellie Kinghorn
Vice President- Rosalyn Luffman
Secretary- Sue Rutherford
Treasurer- Frances McCarthy
Press Officer- Nikki Grant
Competitions - Ros Luffman
Raffles - Katrine Reid assisted by Alison Hunt

Our new committee members are Isla Rattray, Fiona Henderson, Ros Luffman and Alison Hunt.

Standing down from the committee are Gill Main and Catherine Mitchell - we cannot thank them enough for all their hard work and support. Thankfully they will still be joining us at the meetings.

We enjoyed a glass of prosecco, a wonderful spread by our much appreciated hostesses, and a fun quiz from Rowan Jewellery which everyone enthusiastically took part in. (Everyone did very well!)

We would like to heartily thank all our wonderful members old and new. Ballater SWI is a vibrant, fun, welcoming association, and we could not do it without the active participation of our committee and members. Even more new members this year, thank you all for joining in.

We have our trip to Invercauld House Gardens to look forward to on Tuesday 19th May. Meet at the church at 6.15p.m.

The committee will be busily working on our schedule for 2026/27 which begins on Wednesday 16th September 2026.

Aberdeenshire Federation SWI
Scottish Women's Institutes
SWI Aberdeenshire Office
Ballater & Crathie Community Group

A lovely event in the village
30/04/2026

A lovely event in the village

Dear ladies, we are very much looking forward to our AGM in April, our last official meeting for this season.We do have ...
28/03/2026

Dear ladies, we are very much looking forward to our AGM in April, our last official meeting for this season.

We do have our visit to Invercauld House Gardens to look forward to in May.

Please come along, don't worry if you forget your voting form as we will have a supply on the night.

This is a members only meeting. No raffle.

Thank you and we look forward to seeing you all!!

Aberdeenshire Federation SWI
Ballater & Crathie Community Group

Thank you! Thank you!Everyone who attended, baked, ran around with raffles, bought tickets and participated in our bingo...
21/03/2026

Thank you! Thank you!
Everyone who attended, baked, ran around with raffles, bought tickets and participated in our bingo fundraiser!
Huge thanks to Margaret Esson and Jim Luff for their very hard work organising and running the bingo.
You are all superstars!
We raised around £1200 - and amazing amount which shall be put to good use!!
Thank you all so much.
Ballater & Crathie Community Group

19/03/2026

A wee video from last night.

The last tunes - Ballater

Thank you to everyone who attended our evening with Paul Anderson and Ian Murray last night. We thoroughly enjoyed the s...
19/03/2026

Thank you to everyone who attended our evening with Paul Anderson and Ian Murray last night. We thoroughly enjoyed the stories and music of The Cairngorms and ending with Ballater.
From humour to macabre the stories told us so much of the history of our area. Thank you both for an entertaining and engaging evening.
Our Gin naming competition was won by Frances McCarthy and we all enjoyed the raffle.
The scone competition was won by Sue Rutherford - judged by Paul and Ian.
Thank you to our hostesses and everyone involved in setting up.

Bingo on Friday night!! Eyes down! Please remember to take something along for the raffle!! And some home baking if you can.

April is our AGM with a wee quiz from Rowan Jewellery.

Thank you all again.

Ballater & Crathie Community Group

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