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As we move from year to year, this is where you'll find older news and articles. The current year's news will be on the Home page.
17/12/2025
As our final meeting for 2025, we again joined with Neilston Golden Girls for a Christmas lunch in Neilston Bowling Club. That was followed by some excellent entertainment from Simon Sims.
Many thanks to Raymond for organizing things and to Susan, Grace and their many helpers for for the nice turkey lunch. Thanks also to Simon for a great musical entertainment session as well.
More details and photos here.
12/12/2025
19 of us took the bus into Paisley to see Red Hot Chilli Pipers at Paisley Town Hall. More details on that here.
26/11/2025
We had another joint event with the Neilston Golden Girls in Neilston Bowling Club, where had had a very welcome hot steak pie, peas and roast potato lunch followed by a session by accordionist Billy Grey.
Many thanks to Chef John, Stevie, Susan and Grace for for the tasty spread and to Raymond for organizing things and of course, Billy for the entertainment.
21/11/2025
We had a meeting in Neilston Bowling Club for our usual breakfast roll and hot beverage and a bit of a chat and no doubt some some celebrating the fact that Scotland made into the World Cup finals.
14/11/2025
We went down to Lochy's Sports Bar in Barrhead for a game of pool followed by a curry lunch in Himalayan Dine.
07/11/2025
We had a meeting in Neilston Bowling Club with a full, tasty breakfast courtesy of Chef John McLean and his helpers.
31/10/2025
After a tasty bacon roll and hot drink in Neilston Bowling Club, five us went out to the Hurlet Crematorium to attend John Guy's funeral. John was one of our founder members, joining the group from day one back in 2022. He was one of the good guys and will be sadly missed. R.I.P.Â
16/10/2025
About 15 of us went into Glasgow for some dinner and then a musical evening at Glasgow Pavilion with the Ultimate Classic Rock Show. More pics and details here.
11/10/2025
Some of the lads went down to Brig O'Lea stadium to support Neilston F.C. as they were playing against Lintlithgow Rose in the Finest Carmats South Region Challenge Cup. Thankfully, the local team won on penalties after extra time.
10/10/2025
We had a meeting in Neilston Bowling Club for our usual breakfast roll and hot beverage, then we headed down to Barrhead for a game of pool in Lochy's Sports Bar.
24/9/2025
We had a joint event with Neilston Golden Girls for a bit of lunch and being entertained by the Barrhead Ukulele Group (BUGs) in Neilston Bowling Club. More details, photos and videos here.
19/9/2025
We had a meeting in Neilston Bowling Club for our usual breakfast roll and hot beverage. We also had Jenni Simpson in from East Renfrewshire Citizen's Advice Bureau. Jenni was promoting their Older People's Project, the main aim of which is to encourage older people within East Renfrewshire to claim benefits that they may be entitled to.
18/9/2025
A few of the lads had a wee off-the-books trip to Ayr Races. Looks like it was profitable! 💷
12/9/2025
The group went into Glasgow for a chippy lunch and then a show at the Sharmanka Kinetic Theatre. More details here.
29/8/2025
We had a meeting in Neilston Bowling Club with a full breakfast and got a rundown of how the Blackpool trip went the week before from the survivors.
15/8/2025
After our usual breakfast roll, 12 of us headed over the Rouken Glen Park for a walk followed by a coffee/tea in the café.
8/8/2025
16 of us went down to Barrhead for a game of pool in Lochy's Sports Bar, followed by a tasty curry lunch in Himalayan Dine.
30/7/2025
We had another joint social event in Neilston Bowling Club along with Neilston Golden Girls.
After we'd had some tasty bacon rolls, tea/coffee and cake, we were entertained by a couple of well-known local cabaret singers Bert Turner and Jimmy Goldie. More details here.
18/7/2025
A dozen of us took advantage of cheap rail tickets to go on an adventure down South. First we got off at Dumfries for some lunch and then headed down to Carlisle for a visit to the Solway Aviation Museum. More details here.
4/7/2025
14 of us went for a return visit to the Glasgow Police Museum, followed by a return visit to the Val d'Oro for lunch. We've had a few new members join since our original visits so it seemed worth the repeat outing. Both places have been covered before and don't appear to have changed.
You can check out the previous visit to the museum here: Glasgow Police Museum
13/6/2025
The lads had a social day out to the Largs. I'm not sure they saw much of the outdoors but it sounds like they all enjoyed it - only one photo taken though and that wasn't great...
6/6/2025
The group met in Neilston Bowling Club for full breakfast and then headed down to Lochy's Sports Bar in Barrhead for a game of pool.
28/5/2025
We had a joint social event in Neilston Bowling Club along with Neilston Golden Girls.
John McLean and some of the ladies laid on a tasty pie'n'beans lunch for everyone, after which we had some entertainment from Simon Sims.
More details, pics and movies here. You'll also find the movies on our YouTube channel: http://www.youtube.com/@NeilstonMensGroup
23/5/2025
The group met in Neilston Bowling Club for a light breakfast roll and drink and discussed our upcoming joint social event with Neilston Golden Girls and a few other possible outings. We also welcomed in a new member - Peter.
9/5/2025
The group met for its Annual General Meeting, the minutes of which should be published soon.
2/5/2025
15 of us went back up to Harelaw Trout Fishery and Coffee Shop for breakfast.
25/4/2025
The group went over the Leith to visit the Royal Yacht Britannia. Many thanks to Jim McCulloch for providing the discounted rail tickets. More details here.
18/4/2025
18 of us met in Neilston Bowling Club for a light breakfast and to discuss the details for our upcoming trip to Edinburgh and HMY Britannia.
11/4/2025
18 of us went to Pollok Country Park for a short stroll in the park, then a bit of lunch at The Rest in Neilston. More photos and info here.
4/4/2025
The group went for a return visit to Castle Semple Country Park for a stroll along the loch side and had a bit of lunch in the visitor centre café. More info and photos here.
28/3/2025
This week saw 20 of us gather in Kingston Skate Park car park for a trip up to Harelaw Trout Fishery for a bit of breakfast in the café. More info and photos here.
21/3/2025
19 of us met in The Pad for a quick breakfast roll and drink and then headed to the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre for our fourth visit. Billy and Molly gave us an entertaining tour that included some places that some of us had already seen, like Arms and Armour and Transportation where we got some hands-on with swords, and a few new ones like Geology and Botany, which was strangely full of butterflies and beetles; Natural History Skeletons and more paintings. More info and photos here.
14/3/2025
With the bowling club closed, some of us had an off-the-books, social outing into Glasgow for some light refreshments. I believe karaoke was involved🎤 but, sadly, there's no photographic evidence of it.🕺
7/3/2025
Since we had a number of members attending the funeral of local man Rab Higgins and two handing in sick notes, we just had breakfast rolls and hot drinks in Neilston Bowling Club. Hopefully, Steve and Gordon will be feeling better soon.
We also welcomed in a new member, James, so I'm sure he'll fit in well with the group.
Following that, 13 of us headed down to Lochy's in Barrhead for a game of pool.
28/2/2025
John fancied doing us a full breakfast in Neilston Bowling Club and both he and Tam put on a very tasty spread. Many thanks to John and Tam for the feast, for which we are all grateful, and also to the guys that did the dishes and hoovering.
After that, some of us headed up Kirkton Road to the "stone" field to watch Harris, a very happy Springer Spaniel, go through the motions of a gun dog test and show us just how good a boy he is. There's more on the gun dog test here.
21/2/2025
With Raymond away on a short break, we had a very nice breakfast roll and hot beverage with some good conversation in Neilston Bowling Club. Many thanks to John and Tam for the tasty rolls and drinks and also to the guys that did the clearing up.
14/2/2025
With our chef John on a wee break up North this weekend, we opted for a breakfast in The Pad.
As ever, Lindsey and Linda served us a tasty bite with plenty of toast and hot drinks.
7/2/2025
We had a very nice breakfast roll and hot beverage in Neilston Bowling Club, then went down to Lochy's Sports Bar in Barrhead for a game of pool.
31/1/2025
We had our first Burns Lunch in Neilston Bowling Club and very enjoyable it was, albeit a bit late due to Storm Éowyn. We had the haggis (piped in and addressed), a dram and a cracking rendition of Tam O'Shanter. More details here.
We also welcomed in a new member -Â Billy.Â
26/1/2025
Given the chaos caused by Storm Éowyn, we've added a new section on the Health and Wellbeing help page on our web site with some resources that could help in future (or at least let you track that missing trampoline): Neilston Men's Group - Health and Wellbeing: Extreme Weather and Other Emergencies
17/1/2025
Our first outing for 2025 was a visit to the Eonarium Enlightenment show in The Merchants House of Glasgow. It's an audio-visual performance that uses 3D projection mapping and music, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, to showcase the rich heritage of the architecture. More details here.
15/1/2025
We've created our own Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61571695366820
10/1/2025
We had our first group meeting of the year in Neilston Bowling Club and, as well as a tasty breakfast roll and a hot beverage, we welcomed in two new members - Les and Stewart.
7/1/2025
We had a committee meeting this evening so here's what came up:
the state of our current finances, which are still okay
growing the membership as we have capacity and there are at least four possibilities that have expressed an interest so we'll chase those up
looking into how to better promote the group via social media
possible future longer distance visits using Jim's discounted rail tickets
the bowling club has won a grant for refurbishment that may affect access during any works
looking again at researching some short local/nearby walks that would suit our main age group
The minutes can be viewed here.
1/1/2025
Here's a round up of what we did during 2024, taking us as far afield as Oban and Dundee. More details here.
1/1/2025
Happy New Year and all the best for 2025!
The 2024 News feed has moved to the Archive page so watch this space for new announcements during 2025.
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