ACTIVITIES
Websters Sports Centre
Website: https://www.angusalive.scot/
Email: websterssportscentre@angusalive.scot
Telephone: 01575 526 100
Address: Prosen Road, Kirriemuir, DD8 5AT
Opening Hours:
- Monday: 9am – 9pm
- Tuesday: 9am – 9pm
- Wednesday: 9am – 9pm
- Thursday: 9am – 9pm
- Friday: 9am – 9pm
- Saturday: 9am – 12pm
- Sunday: Closed
The charity ANGUSalive is the culture, sport and leisure trust for the county of Angus and has been operating since 1 December 2015.
ANGUSalive offers residents and visitors to Angus a wealth of services which inspire healthy, active and creative lifestyle choices through the use of our sports centres, country parks, theatres and venues, museums, galleries, archives and libraries. We have five service areas which form our culture, sport and leisure offering:
- Sport & Leisure
- Countryside Adventure
- Theatre & Venues
- Libraries
- Museums, Galleries & Archives
We are ambitious and aim to provide the best services for our customers through the delivery of our vision, mission and strategic aims.
FOOD PROVISION
Kirriemuir Food Hub
Website: Click Here
Telephone: 07745 639 144
Address: 3 Bellies Brae, Kirriemuir, DD8 4EJ
Their mission is to help combat food insecurity and reduce food waste by repurposing and redistributing food. With overlapping goals, we began working in partnership in September of 2020, to better the environment and enhance the community as a team.
Continually developing and expanding their operations, Kirriemuir Food Hub is now registered with the HUBBUB Community Fridge Network. This means that a proportion of the food saved from waste is available for anyone in the local area to collect and use, giving us all a chance to do our bit to address local food waste. So, next time you are in the town, make sure to nip into the hub and see what’s available! If using the Community Fridge, donations are welcome to help the food hub in addressing food insecurity. A suggested donation is a tin from the cupboard or a spare toilet roll.
During the first year of our partnership, over 17 tonnes of food has been saved from waste and redirected via the hub for people just like you to eat and enjoy! This is the equivalent of saving more than 60 tonnes of CO2 emissions, which is like driving an average car from Kirriemuir to Forfar more than 20,000 times. Wow!
HEALTH & WELLBEING
Kirrie Connections
Website: https://www.kirrieconnections.com/
Email: kirrieconnections@gmail.com
Telephone: 01575 520 140
Address: 29 Roods, Kirriemuir, DD8 4HN
Kirrie Connections is a community hub that serves as the base for the Dementia Friendly Kirriemuir Project. The hub is a place where people living with dementia and their carers can get advice, support and form new friendships. We work with a variety of other partners, including Alzheimer Scotland and the Angus Carer’s Centre. The hub is open 5 days a week, Monday to Friday from 9:30am- 4pm, and offers sessions ranging from arts and crafts to sporting memories.
Kirriemuir Social Prescribing
email:eddie@voluntaryactionangus.org.uk
tel 07857618038
website https://www.voluntaryactionangus.org.uk/social-prescribing/
Social prescribing is not new to the county of Angus. Strong partnership working and respectful collaborations across primary care and third sector have formed part of a vision to create ‘An Angus that actively cares’, which is an integral part of our Health and Social Care Strategic Plan. Angus is mostly a rural county where the population of 106,800 people is anticipated to grow and where demographic forecasts predict an aging population (perhaps more dependent on primary and other care services). There are also increasing challenges concerning to public health where poverty, mental health, alcohol and drug deaths are increasing across the county and in its neighbouring Local Authority, Dundee.