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The Neilston Men's Group is a local community group offering support and friendship to local men in our wee village in East Renfrewshire.
If you want more information, to contact the group administrators or want to apply to join us, then see the About Us page.
"There are no strangers here; Only friends you haven't yet met."
William Butler Yeats
Our next meeting will be in Neilston Bowling Club at 10:00 a.m. on the 7th of June. After that we might go down to Lochy's for a game of pool.
Some things we're looking at for later in the year are:
a tour of Glasgow Central Station
a tour of the Glasgow Necropolis
a visit to Dean Castle Country Park
a visit to Paisley Museum, when it eventually reopens
30/5/2026
Both the men's and ladies groups manned stands in the Glen Halls for the Neilston Probationary Funding event and we're happy to declare that both were successful in securing £1,200 in funding for the year ahead.
Many thanks to everyone that gave us their support and to Neilston Community Council for organizing the event.
29/5/2026
Given what looked like a reasonable weather forecast earlier in the week, we had intended to go for another walk at Castle Semple Loch. But, Scottish weather being the way it is, that didn't happen. 😞 More details here.
15/5/2026
We had our usual breakfast roll and hot drink, followed by a visit from Vidya from local catering/takeaway service Wee Veggies. More about that here.
After that, we had a social sub-committee meeting looking at places to go, things to see, etc.
29/4/2026
We had another joint event with Neilston Golden Girls for some lunch and entertainment in Neilston Bowling Club. We didn't get any details of the act though.
24/4/2026
We had our usual breakfast roll and hot drink, followed by our Annual General Meeting, where we elected a new committee as follows:
Chairman: Raymond Kerr
Vice chairman: James Kennedy
Treasurer: Jim McKinnon
Secretary: Stewart Campbell
Auditor: Jim McCulloch
We also formed a social sub-committee to handle selecting places to go, things to see, etc:
Billy Sinclair
John Adams
Robert Elliot
Allan Ogg
17/4/2026
Mentioning that there's new Indian restaurant in Barrhead and Raymond had heard that the new one Rouken Glen Park was good got some mouths watering for a curry.
So, opting for an outing to the park, we headed to the Rockend Mill Bar & Restaurant for lunch. More details here.
10/4/2026
We were treated to a full breakfast (egg, bacon, lorne sausage, black pudding, tattie scone and beans) in Neilston Bowling Club. After that and in the spirit of balancing the universe, Kerry Cameron from East Renfrewshire Community Learning and Development gave us another Strength and Balance for Men workout.
25/3/2026
Today, we had another joint lunch with Neilston Golden Girls in Neilston Bowling Club, after which we were entertained by John Alexander. More details here.
21/3/2026
15 of us had an evening out to see The Spirit of Bad Company & Free show at Eastwood Theatre . It's a show dedicated to reproducing the classic songs sung by Paul Rodgers throughout his career with both Free and Bad Company. More about that here.
6/3/2026
We had our usual breakfast roll, drink and chat in Neilston Bowling Club for a breakfast roll and hot drink.
Kerry Cameron from East Renfrewshire Community Learning and Development then gave us an introductory Strength and Balance for Men class, which I think we all appreciated and Kerry might have got a few more recruits for her Thursday sessions at 12:30 p.m. in Neilston Leisure Centre.
More photos have been added to the original web page about this here.
25/2/2026
We had another joint lunch event with Neilston Golden Girls in Neilston Bowling Club, after which we were entertained by cabaret singer Jill Ryan, who previously sang for us in 2024 as Robyn Brooks. More details here.
13/2/2026
We had our usual breakfast roll, drink and chat in Neilston Bowling Club for a breakfast roll and hot drink.
We were joined by Kerry Cameron from East Renfrewshire Community Learning and Development, who gave us some information about the free Strength and Balance for Men classes coming soon to Neilston Leisure Centre.
Kerry also offered to come back and give us a session in the club on the 6th of March.
More info here.
6/2/2026
We went for a game of pool at Lochy's, followed by a curry lunch in Himalayan Dine.Â
23/1/2026
We had had what's turning into a possible annual Burns Lunch event in Neilston Bowling Club, where we had the haggis piped in by Graham Walker of Neilston and District Pipe Band and addressed, as is the ritual, followed by a recitation by Michael Carrol of the Burns poem "Tam O'Shanter". More details here.
16/1/2026
We had our first meeting of the year in Neilston Bowling Club, where we had a tasty breakfast roll and hot beverage. We also welcomed new member Zach into the group.
1/1/2026
Happy New Year and all the best for 2026!
The 2025 News feed has moved to the Archive page so watch this space for new announcements during 2026.
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