East Dunbartonshire Council is carrying out a consultation exercise in connection with its Primary Schools Improvement Programme.  More details about this Programme can be found on the Council’s website by following this link1:

The proposal that is under consideration for Lenzie is to close Lenzie Moss Primary, Lenzie Primary and Lenzie Primary Nursery and to build a new school on the Lenzie Moss Primary site.  The proposal is now at the statutory consultation stage and the closing date for this is Wednesday 26^th June 2013.

Again, all the consultation documents relating to Lenzie can be found on East Dunbartonshire Council’s website and this is the link 2:

The statutory process requires that various stakeholders are invited to participate in the consultation process and have their views reflected in the local authority’s report to the Scottish Government. If you belong to any of the designated categories, you should have received the documents and a response form. If not, please contact East Dunbartonshire Council. Lenzie Community Council is one of the statutory consultees and our function is to represent “wider issues” for the community.  Should you wish to pass comments to the Community Council to assist us in representing the residents of Lenzie, please go to the ‘Contact Us’ section of this website.

There are several ways to respond:

1. Complete and send the on-line questionnaire at  questionnnaire

2. If you don’t have internet, pick up a hardcopy version of the questionnaire at Day-today Express, Andrew King, or Gillespies Garage and Freepost it to the address on the flyer

3. Compose your own response and email it to the Post Office at comments@postoffice.co.uk

Information on all these opportunities to make your views known to the Post Office is on flyers available in eight different businesses in Lenzie.  The Post Office has drawn up its own comparison between the services available currently and those proposed for the PO counter at Scotmid, Gallowhill Road (see services) and you may wish to look at these before responding.

Your Community Council has already submitted a 2-page response making the case for retention of a Post Office counter near to the centre of Lenzie and has now received an acknowledgement.  As always, we would be happy to hear your views via the ‘Contact Us’ option on this website.

There was lots of support for Fairtrade in Lenzie in 2012 and the  Fairtrade stall in the Coffee Lounge (now MaMa Da Vinci’s) established a regular presence. But this year it seems that  Fairtrade is happening all over Lenzie.  There will be events during the Fortnight at St Cyprians’ Childminders, the Girls’ Brigade, the Junior Boys’ Brigade, Anchor Boys, Cubs, the Lenzie Public Hall Mother and Toddler group, Lenzie Old Church, Lenzie Union Church, University of the Third Age, and St Mary’s Church in Kirkintilloch with its Christian Aid Fair on Saturday 2 March.

If you belong to one of these groups please check with them for the date and time of their event.  Otherwise, come along to Mama Da Vinci’s on Friday 8 March to stock up on Kilombero rice and Eswatini chutney, not to mention Divine Chocolate – as well as crafty gifts!

More big news is that our detailed application to gain Fairtrade Town status has been completed and submitted – watch this space!  Since posting this notice it has been announced by the Scottish Government that Scotland has achieved Fair Trade Nation status – only the second nation after Wales.

Help Friends of Lenzie Moss on one of their regular maintenance days – fixing paths, clearing birch and picking litter.  Old clothes, wellies recommended but all tools provided.

Time: 10-12 am
Place: meet Station car park

THEN from 12-2 pm

Move on to Mama da Vinci’s and help yourself to Tasting of Fair Trade food products and warming soup.

Overall winner of the 9 K by a large margin was Gavin Alexander in 31 minutes 10 secs.  The 4.5 K winner was Kieran Pugh in 17 minutes 9 secs and Duncan McKinney completed the 2K circuit in 8 mins 34 sec (all results provisional at this stage).   You can view all the provisional results of the 291 known finishers  – as follows : Lenize Jog 9k final, Lenzie Jog 4.5 final, Lenzie Jog 2k final

One or two of the starters may not have crossed the finish line (although we counted them out and counted them back) so if you think you should be on the list somewhere or your name is not quite right on the list, let us know and we will try to correct before the final list goes in the Kirkintilloch Herald.  Many thanks to all those involved, especially the joggers, trotters and walkers.

Our guest speaker at the AGM will be Tracy Mitchell who co-ordinates the Lenzie Fair Trade Group and who will speak about Lenzie’s progress towards becoming recognised as a Fairtrade Town, as part of the wider initiative to have Scotland recognised as a Fair Trade nation.  Tracy works for Just Trading Scotland and is a Board Member of the Scottish Fair Trade Forum.  The Lenzie Community Council has been supporting the Group’s efforts and three members of LCC are on the local Fair Trade Group. 

LCC meetings are not normally open meetings so our AGM is your chance to let us know how you think we are doing and what we could be doing better.

Then at 5.30 sharp, our 2012 Gala Queen Ellie Cook will switch on the Christmas Lights.  Father Christmas has also promised to pay a visit and we are expecting him to arrive about 10 minutes before the lights are switched on.  After the official proceedings, refreshments will be available in the Church Hall.  Everyone is most welcome, so please come along and warm up with some tea or coffee.

A large number of charities have been invited to bring their latest card offerings and there will be other useful purchases you can make.  Business done, you can relax with tea or coffee and some home baking.  Admission free – coffee £2 adults and £1 for children.  Easy!