CoScan AGM & SNS Ventures Forth... Stirling

Weekend 26th to 28th April: CoScan AGM & our ‘SNS Ventures Forth’

Our annual Ventures Forth event this year take place in conjunction with CoScan’s AGM. The Scottish Norwegian Society (Glasgow) is delighted to be hosting this. This was a good opportunity for our members to also get involved during the weekend… as well as participating in our ever-popular activity - SNS Ventures Forth.

The itinerary for the weekend was as follows:

Friday 26th April: Early evening…

A reception at The Stirling Highland Hotel, Spittal Street, Stirling FK8 1DU. The SNS welcoming committee met and greeted the other UK and Scandinavian CoScan members. So far, we have around 30 CoScan delegates and we were delighted that other SNS members joined us during the weekend to meet our visitors.

Saturday 27th April: Day time…

Venture Forth: An 11 am a tour of Stirling Castle.

CoScan arranged a visit to the historic Stirling Old Town Jail at 3 pm.

Saturday 27th April: CoScan Dinner 7pm

The CoScan dinner was at Hermanns Restaurant, 58 Broad Street,Stirling FK81EF.

Sunday 28th April: CoScan AGM, 10 am

CoScan held its Annual General Meeting at The Stirling Highland Hotel.

Photographs from the event can be seen here...

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A day in the life of the Norwegian Seaman's Mission

by Astrid Stenholt

Our March meeting on 13th March we had Astrid Stenholt who delighted us with her personal tales from Aberdeen and throughout Scotland.. She manages the Norwegian Seaman’s Church and visits Norwegian ships that dock in Scotland… where-ever! they are docked

Last year the Seaman’s Church hosted over 1000 ships that docked in Scotland - mostly in Aberdeen, Peterhead and Montrose. Fortunately, they’ve also had ships docking on the west coast as well.

These ships mainly do supply, mainly in the oil and fish industries. Most ships hold many Norwegians with a few foreign nationals to a few Norwegians to many foreign nationals usually European or Philippines. Of course, there is also an “on-shore” Norwegian/Scottish community made up of all ages from small kids, students, families, adults and elderly, who also enjoy the Norwegian Seaman's Church.

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Woodhaven - a wee bit of Norway during WWII

9th October, 2019

Last night’s talk/presentation was very interesting. To add to that, David Winch & Evelyn Hardie brought with them some artefacts which were on displayed.

Katherine Kelsey gave the votes of thanks.

Our usual speaker's fee was accepted on behalf of the RNLI. A very generous donation.

David’s wife Jan and Evelyn’s partner Ralph, also came along and all four were presented with Blue Peter- sorry SNS lapel badges!

Our usual "cafe and kaker" was well represented by Anny's exceptional baking!

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