Yesterday, we held the first meeting of the West End Christmas Week Committee for 2010. Very early in the year, you might think! However, it is the 10th anniversary and as we want to ensure a superb event to celebrate this milestone - hence the early planning meeting.We are aiming to hold this week's Christmas Week from 20th to 27th November - the launch on the 20th being a community fayre involving local community groups across the West End, with the Christmas lights switch on and children's Christmas concert taking place on Wednesday 24th November - including a superb fireworks display and a carnival, hopefully on a site site at the Duncan of Jordanstone site (we are grateful for the support of the University of Dundee in relation to this). Celebrities, competitions, concerts - a great 10th Christmas anniversary in the West End - don't miss it! For the first time, there will also be a lights switch-on event in West Port, to publicise the superb shops in West Port and South Tay Street, too.
Last night, as reported in today's Courier, I chaired a great public meeting at Dundee West Church aimed at setting up a sports and community facility at Riverside, for the benefit of the West End community, together with a project to repaint and repair the Magdalen Green bandstand, last restored 20 years ago. The photo (below) was taken at the meeting.
If you are interested in hearing more about the project, please e-mail me at community.project@frasermacpherson.org.uk - many thanks!