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A multi-award winning group of local volunteers with a very clear aim of ‘helping Ferguslie flourish’ by responding to identified needs in a dignified & sustainable way through their multi-faceted & wide-reaching initiative.

07/11/2026

🎄💚 11% of our target in less than a week! 💚🎄

Darkwood Crew would like to thank everyone who has donated to or shared our Ferguslie Community Market Christmas Appeal so far. We are already 11% of the way towards our £4,000 target!

If you can help:

🥫 Food donations can be dropped directly into The Tannahill Centre
💚 Financial donations can be made here: https://gofund.me/87ab1a22d

There is absolutely no pressure, but every donation and shared post helps sustain Ferguslie Community Market throughout Christmas and the year ahead. Thank you! 💚

🎄💚 HELP FERGUSLIE FLOURISH—THIS CHRISTMAS AND BEYOND! 💚🎄Today, Darkwood Crew officially launches the Ferguslie Community...
01/11/2026

🎄💚 HELP FERGUSLIE FLOURISH—THIS CHRISTMAS AND BEYOND! 💚🎄

Today, Darkwood Crew officially launches the Ferguslie Community Market Annual Christmas Food Drive and GoFundMe Appeal, running from 1 November until 24 December.

And we are absolutely delighted to say that the appeal has already got off to a cracking start! 🎉

Last night’s Halloween Karaoke Disco at The Tannahill Centre raised a whopping £628.90 for Ferguslie Community Market putting us well on our way towards our £4,000 target before the appeal had even officially launched! 🎤🎃👏

We have also recently received confirmation that TheKibble will once again support our appeal by donating the proceeds from its forthcoming Christmas Fayre. This will be the fourth consecutive year The Kibble has stood alongside us, and we are incredibly grateful for that fantastic and continued support. ❤️

Every penny raised and every food item donated will help sustain Ferguslie Community Market, not only throughout the festive season, but during the year ahead.

There are several ways you can get involved:

🥫 Donate food directly to The Tannahill Centre
💚 Make a personal donation through our GoFundMe, if you are able
🎅 Organise a fundraiser through your workplace, school, group or organisation
📣 Share our appeal and help us reach even more people

No contribution is too small, and there is absolutely no pressure to donate. A tin, a tenner, a fundraiser or even a shared post can all help make a difference.

🔗 Donate here: https://gofund.me/87ab1a22d

Over the last six years, Ferguslie Community Market has provided 10,710 affordable shops, redistributed approximately 81 tonnes of good food and helped local households make an estimated combined saving of around £390,000.

Together, let’s help protect this important community-led provision and ensure it continues to flourish.

Give a little. Help sustain a lot.

Because when we give with dignity, we all flourish together. 💚🎄

A sofa has become available if anyone has a use for it. Can be delivered for fuel costs.
21/10/2026

A sofa has become available if anyone has a use for it. Can be delivered for fuel costs.

11/10/2026

🎃🎤 WE’RE IN FULL HALLOWEEN PREP MODE! 🎤🎃

Now that the Good Ideas Fund results are in, we’re delighted that Darkwood Crew secured £800 to help us host our Adult Halloween Karaoke Disco at The Tannahill Centre! 👻🕺

And trust us… we’re putting it to good use! 😂
From decorations to raffle prizes, entertainment to finger food, bingo to Play Your Cards Right — preparations are well and truly underway for a cracking Halloween night.

📅 Saturday 31st October
⏰ 7.30pm – 11.45pm
📍 The Tannahill Centre
🎟️ Tickets £5

We’ve already sold 20 tickets, and we fully expect the rest to go quickly! Tickets are available now from the Facilities Team at The Tannahill Centre, so don't leave it until the last minute.

There’s also a bigger purpose behind all the Halloween madness. ❤️

Every penny raised on the night will help kick-start Darkwood Crew’s Annual Christmas Food Drive & GoFundMe Appeal in aid of Ferguslie Community Market, which launches the very next day — 1st November. 🎄🛒

So one community fundraiser leads straight into another, helping us continue supporting local people as we head towards Christmas.

🎤 Karaoke
🎃 Fancy dress
🏆 Competitions & prizes
🎱 Bingo
🃏 Play Your Cards Right
🎟️ Raffles
🍴 Finger food
😂 And, most importantly, a right good laugh!

Fun, fancy dress, competitions, prizes, food and good company… what's not to like?

Get your ticket before they're gone! 🎟️👻

07/10/2026

🎃 DARKWOOD CREW NEEDS YOUR VOTE! 🎤🗳️

Tonight we're one of the 16 projects heading into the Good Ideas Fund Public Ballot — and we're asking for £800 to help us deliver our Adult Halloween Karaoke Disco on 31st October! 👻🎶

The idea is simple: bring local people together for a brilliant, affordable night in the heart of the community — a chance to dress up, have a laugh, murder a few perfectly good songs 😂 and enjoy some proper community spirit.

And tonight, YOU decide whether it gets funded!

If you live in Ferguslie Park, come along to the Tannahill Centre, visit all 16 stalls, get your Voter Passport stamped and you'll receive 3 votes for your favourite projects.
We'd absolutely love Darkwood Crew to get one of them. 💚

📅 TONIGHT – 7th October
⏰ 6pm–8pm
📍 The Tannahill Centre
🗳️ 3 votes per resident

🏠 You must live in Ferguslie Park to vote
Come over to the Darkwood Crew stall, find out what we've got planned for Halloween and decide for yourself whether it's worth one of your votes.

🎃 Halloween. Karaoke. Community. What could possibly go wrong? 😂🎤

💚 Vote Darkwood Crew – and help us give Ferguslie Park a Halloween night to remember!

🍂🎃 AUTUMN HAS ARRIVED… AND HALLOWEEN IS COMING TO FERGUSLIE PARK! 🎃🍂The nights are drawing in, autumn is officially here...
20/09/2026

🍂🎃 AUTUMN HAS ARRIVED… AND HALLOWEEN IS COMING TO FERGUSLIE PARK! 🎃🍂

The nights are drawing in, autumn is officially here, and at Darkwood Crew we’re already counting down to Halloween! 👻

On Friday 31st October, we’re taking over The Tannahill Centre for our Halloween Karaoke Disco, a night of music, laughs, fancy dress and fundraising! 🎤🕺💃

We’ll have Karaoke & Disco, Bingo, Play Your Cards Right, Raffles and, of course, our Best Costume Competition, with prizes of £50, £25 and £10! 🧙‍♀️🧛‍♂️🧟

📅 Friday 31st October
⏰ 7.30pm – 11.45pm
🎟️ Tickets just £5 each
📍 The Tannahill Centre
👻 Fancy dress definitely encouraged!

Tickets will be available from the Facilities Office at The Tannahill Centre from Tuesday 22nd September.

And there’s a bigger reason behind the night. ❤️

Every penny raised will support Ferguslie Community Market, and when Halloween ends, our festive campaign begins! 🎄

On 1st November, Darkwood Crew launches our Annual Christmas Food Drive & GoFundMe Appeal, helping us support local households through the festive period while continuing the Community Market’s work throughout the year.

So this Halloween, come along, have a brilliant night, make a fool of yourself on the karaoke 🎤😂, dress to impress and help us kick-start another season of community giving.

🎃 Halloween on the 31st. Christmas appeal launches on the 1st.

💜 One community supporting one another.

🎂🎉 TODAY WE ARE 6! 🎉🎂Well… we made it!After a week of looking back at the journey, sharing the numbers, celebrating our ...
10/09/2026

🎂🎉 TODAY WE ARE 6! 🎉🎂

Well… we made it!

After a week of looking back at the journey, sharing the numbers, celebrating our volunteers, talking about what being community-led actually means and remembering just how far we've come...

💚 FERGUSLIE COMMUNITY MARKET IS OFFICIALLY SIX YEARS OLD! 💚

Six years ago, in the middle of a pandemic, a small group of local people came together around a simple idea: could we make good food more affordable and accessible while supporting people in our own community?

We didn't have a six-year plan.

We certainly didn't imagine we'd still be sitting here in 2026 talking about:

🛍️ 10,710 affordable shops provided
🙌 15,300+ volunteering hours contributed
🥕 81 tonnes of good food redistributed
📅 327 Community Market sessions
💷 An estimated £390,000 saved by local families

But perhaps the thing we're proudest of can't be measured quite so easily.

It's the friendships made.

The volunteers who found somewhere to belong.

The people who quietly looked out for one another.

The partnerships built.

The laughs we've had.

The difficult weeks when people still turned up.

And a community that took a wee idea and helped turn it into something that has lasted six years.

We've said it throughout this birthday week, and we'll say it again today:

THIS MILESTONE BELONGS TO OUR COMMUNITY.

To every volunteer who has ever pulled on a pair of gloves, packed a bag, stocked a table, collected food, made a delivery or stood behind the Market...

To every organisation, business, funder, supplier and partner who believed in what we were trying to do...

And most importantly, to every single person who has walked through our doors and supported the Community Market...

THANK YOU. 💚

And since no birthday would be complete without cake... 😂🍰

🎂 BIRTHDAY CAKE WILL BE AVAILABLE AT BOTH MARKET SESSIONS TODAY!

☀️ Daytime Market: 11am–1pm
🌙 Evening Market: 6pm–8pm

Come along, do your shopping, grab yourself a bit of birthday cake and help us celebrate. Everyone is welcome.

Six years ago we started with an idea.

Today we have a community.

💛 HAPPY 6TH BIRTHDAY, FERGUSLIE COMMUNITY MARKET! 💛

Six incredible years… and this is just the beginning.

💚 People • Food • Community • Action

🎂 TOMORROW WE ARE 6! 🎂Well… after a week of looking back, crunching the numbers, celebrating our volunteers and sharing ...
09/09/2026

🎂 TOMORROW WE ARE 6! 🎂

Well… after a week of looking back, crunching the numbers, celebrating our volunteers and sharing the story behind Ferguslie Community Market, we're almost there.

Tomorrow, Ferguslie Community Market officially turns SIX! 💚💛

Six years ago, we could never have imagined where this journey would take us.
What began as a community response during incredibly difficult circumstances has grown into something that has now delivered thousands of affordable shops, redistributed tonnes of good food, saved local households hundreds of thousands of pounds and created countless opportunities for people to volunteer, connect and contribute.

But if this week's posts have demonstrated anything, it's that none of it happened by accident and none of it happened because of one person or organisation.

It happened because people turned up.

🙌 Volunteers turned up.

🤝 Partners supported us.

🥕 Suppliers worked with us.

🗣️ Our community told us what they needed.

💚 And local people continued supporting the Market, week after week.

So tomorrow isn't simply our birthday.

🎈 THIS MILESTONE BELONGS TO OUR COMMUNITY. 🎈

And obviously, you can't have a birthday without CAKE! 🍰😂

So there will be birthday cake available at BOTH Community Market sessions tomorrow:

☀️ Daytime Market — 11am–1pm
🌙 Evening Market — 6pm–8pm

Come along, grab your shopping, have a slice of cake and help us celebrate six incredible years of Ferguslie Community Market. 🎂

Tomorrow we'll have one final birthday post to mark the big day itself.

For tonight, though...

THANK YOU, FERGUSLIE PARK. 💚

Six years of food.
Six years of community.
Six years of dignity.
Six years of action.

🎂 SEE YOU TOMORROW! 🎂

📣 6 YEARS STRONG: YOU ASKED. WE LISTENED. 💚Over the last few days, we've looked back at where Ferguslie Community Market...
08/09/2026

📣 6 YEARS STRONG: YOU ASKED. WE LISTENED. 💚

Over the last few days, we've looked back at where Ferguslie Community Market started, shared some pretty incredible numbers, celebrated our volunteers and explained why we've always believed this is about much more than food.

But there's another important part of our six-year story...

Being community-led means being prepared to listen.

For years, Ferguslie Community Market operated on a Thursday from 11am–1pm.
It worked. It was busy. It supported lots of people.

But that didn't necessarily mean it worked for everyone.

So rather than assume we knew best, we asked.

And our community told us that the daytime opening could be difficult for people who were working, studying, caring for others or simply had commitments that meant 11am–1pm wasn't accessible.

You also told us you wanted more opportunities to get involved.

So...

WE LISTENED. 💚

Today, the Market operates twice every Thursday:

☀️ 11am–1pm
🌙 6pm–8pm

Same Market.
Same values.
Same commitment to affordability and dignity.

Just more opportunity for more people to access it.

And that's important, because consultation shouldn't be something we do simply because a funding application or report tells us to.

If we're genuinely serious about being community-led, asking the question is only half the job.

We also have to be prepared to act on the answer.

Six years after opening our doors, we're still learning. We're still adapting. And we're still listening.

Because ultimately...

THIS MARKET IS YOURS. 💚

More affordable. More inclusive. Shaped by our community.

🎂 And now there are just 2 DAYS TO GO until Ferguslie Community Market officially turns SIX!

The countdown is very definitely on... 🎈🎉

💚 6 YEARS STRONG: MORE THAN A MARKET 💚Over the last few days, we've shared the numbers, looked back at the journey and c...
07/09/2026

💚 6 YEARS STRONG: MORE THAN A MARKET 💚

Over the last few days, we've shared the numbers, looked back at the journey and celebrated the incredible volunteers who have helped make Ferguslie Community Market what it is today.

But as we get closer to our 6th birthday, there's something else we want to say.

This has always been about more than food.

Yes, making good food more affordable matters — particularly at a time when household budgets have been stretched beyond breaking point.

But from the very beginning, we wanted to do things differently.

💷 AFFORDABILITY
Helping household budgets go that wee bit further.

💚 DIGNITY
Choice, not charity. No labels. No judgement. Everyone welcome.

♻️ REDUCING WASTE
Making sure tonnes of perfectly good food ends up on people's tables rather than being unnecessarily discarded.

🤝 CONNECTION
Creating opportunities for people to meet, talk, laugh, build relationships and feel part of something.

🙌 PARTICIPATION
Local people aren't simply recipients of what we do — they volunteer, contribute ideas, make decisions and help shape what happens next.

👂 LISTENING
And when our community tells us something isn't working, we listen and adapt. Our new evening Market session is the latest example of exactly that.

Because there's a pretty important difference between delivering something TO a community and building something WITH a community.

Ferguslie Community Market is community-led.

It was created by local people, shaped by local people and, six years later, continues because local people believe in it.

We don't pretend a Community Market can solve poverty. It can't.

But it can help household budgets.

It can reduce waste.

It can create opportunities to volunteer.

It can bring people together.

It can treat people with dignity.

And it can demonstrate what becomes possible when communities are trusted to develop their own responses to the challenges they face.

And perhaps that's the real story behind these six years. 💚

MORE AFFORDABLE. MORE INCLUSIVE. SHAPED BY OUR COMMUNITY.

🎂 Six years of food. Six years of community. Six years of dignity & action.

And the birthday is getting closer... 👀🎈

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Paisley
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