As a community cinema and a not-for-profit organisation, our objective is to use the surplus from our screenings to donate to local organisations and Rotary projects.

We have been able to donate £3,070 in 2011, £2,200 in 2012, and a further £3,700 in 2103. In addition, we raised £350 as a result of a collection at our November 2013 screening. We were able to donate £2,540 in 2014, and £2,590 in 2015. We donated £4,100 in 2016, £3,850 in 2017, £2,800 in 2018, and £4,150 in 2019.

Due to the Covid-19 closure of The Corn Exchange, we were unable to make donations in 2020 or 2021. However, we were delighted to have been able to hold our special Charity Screening of The Sting in April 2022. As a result, we were able to donate £1,140 to Maggie's Centres, the cancer support charity.

In April 2023, we held a Charity Screening of Local Hero, and were able to donate £1.000 to MND Scotland,making a total of £32,590 to date.

Details of our donations in each year are shown below.

Donations in 2011

In addition to donations made earlier in 2011, on the evenings of the screenings of our October film we were delighted to present cheques to a number of worthy causes. The total of the donations we were able to make during the year is as follows:

Cheque presentation Friday 1st July 2011

l to r: Bill Gourlay (Biggar Rotary Club), James Dawnay (Biggar Museum Trust, Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema)

Cheque presentations Sunday 30th October 2011

l to r: Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), Sandy Gilchrist (Biggar & Clydesdale Audio News), Andrew Goldie (accepting on behalf of Spirit Aid), Tom Grassie (Shirati Hospital Energy Project)

Cheque presentations Monday 31st October 2011

l to r: Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema), Mike Chad (Biggar Theatre Workshop), Sue Pacey (Biggar Youth Project), Nettie Maxwell (Biggar Albion Foundation)

Donations in 2012

Following on from a very successful first season in 2011, we were delighted to be able to make further donations in 2012, and the cheques were again presented on the evenings of the screenings of our October film. The total of the donations we were able to make during 2012 is as follows:

Sunday 28th October 2012

l to r: Stephanie Whatley (Biggar Babies and Toddlers Group), Brian Curle (Biggar Little Cinema), Kath Brotherstone (Biggar Gala Week Committee), Patricia Ramage (Biggar and Symington District Girl Guiding), Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema)

Monday 29th October 2012

l to r: Reverend David Easton (Biggar Kirk), Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), John Costigan (Abbeyfield House), with pupils from Biggar Primary School on behalf of the Gelai Bomba Project in Tanzania

Donations in 2013

After another successful season in 2012, we were again delighted to be able to make a number of further donations in 2013, and the cheques were again presented on the evenings of the screenings of our October film. The total of the donations we were able to make during 2013 is as follows:

Sunday 27th October 2013

l to r: Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema), Brian Curle (Biggar Little Cinema), Manhal Alnasser (Hand in Hand for Syria), Firas Alsehli (Hand in hand for Syria), Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), Ann Mathieson (Biggar Museum Trust), Alison Somerville (Biggar RBL Pipe Band), Malcolm Macmillan, member of the Rotary Club of Portobello (representing Rotary End Polio Now Appeal)

Monday 28th October 2013

l to r: Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema), Eric Carlyle, member of the Rotary Club of Biggar (representing Rotary Foundation), Allan Bartholomew (Biggar United Juniors Football Club), Tom Matthews (Biggar Little Cinema), Allan Cosh (Biggar United Juniors Football Club), Brian Curle (Biggar Little Cinema), Moira Struthers (1st Biggar Tinto Scout Group), Cameron Sutherland (Biggar Big Band), Claire Chapman (Wateraid)

As a result of a collection at our November 2013 screening, we raised £350 to help finance a Rotary Shelter Box to go to the Philippines to assist those who have lost everything as a result of Typhoon Haiyan.

Donations in 2014

Another successful season in 2013 enabled us to make a number of further donations in 2014, and the cheques were presented at our screening on Saturday 1st November. The total of the donations we were able to make during 2014 is as follows:

Saturday 1st November 2014

Donations in 2015

In April and May 2015, we were able to make two donations.

The first was £590 to fund a Rotary Shelter Box which was sent to Nepal to help provide shelter to the hundreds of thousands of people who were sleeping on the streets following the devastating earthquake. Pictures of Shelter Boxes being transported and used in various parts of the world may be seen by clicking here.

The second donation was £500 to assist with the capital cost of establishing a public convenience in Biggar, following the decision by South Lanarkshire Council to close all public toilets at the end of June 2015 as part of its cost reduction programme.

Friday 30th October 2015

Donations in 2016

Another successful season in 2015/16 enabled us to make a number of further donations in 2016, and the cheques were presented at our screenings on Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October.

The total of the donations is as follows:

Donations in 2017

After another successful season in 2016/17, we were able to make a number of further donations in 2017, and the cheques were presented at our screenings on Friday 27th and Saturday 29th October.

The total of the donations made is as follows:

Donations in 2018

We had yet another successful season in 2017/18, and we were able to make a number of further donations in 2018. The cheques were presented at our screenings on Saturday 27th and Sunday 29th October.

The total of the donations made is as follows:

Donations in 2019

Following another successful season in 2018/19, and we were able to make a number of further donations in 2019. The cheques were presented at our screenings on Saturday 26th and Sunday 27th October.

The total of the donations made is as follows:

Donations in 2022

Due to the Covid-19 closure of The Corn Exchange, we were unable to make donations in 2020 or 2021. However, we were delighted to have been able to hold our special Charity Screening of The Sting on 23rd April 2022. As a result, we were able to donate £1,000 to Maggie's Centres, the cancer support charity. In addition, a further £140 was very generously donated by audience members, bringing the total for the evening to £1,140.

l to r: Stewart Houston, Brian Curle and Tom Matthews with Andy Anderson from Maggie's Centres

Donations in 2023

On 22nd April 2023, we held a Special Charity Screening of Local Hero, and were able to donate £1,000 to MND Scotland, a charity which funds research into Motor Neurone Disease and supports all those affected by MND.

l to r: Brian Curle (Biggar Little Cinema), Debbie Atkins (Trustee, MND Scotland), Stewart Houston (Biggar Little Cinema).

Our Films

Our 2011 Mini-Season

Our first film, shown on Saturday 26th March, was Hope and Glory, directed by John Borman in 1987, and starring David Hayman, Sarah Miles and Ian Bannen, and featuring Sebastian Rice-Edwards. To launch Biggar Little Cinema, David Hayman made a personal appearance and introduced the film.

The showing of Hope and Glory was followed by our Mini Season of three films:

Made in Dagenham (2010) - Saturday 30th April 2011 at 7.30pm

The King's Speech (2010) - Friday 27th May and Saturday 28th May 2011, both evenings at 7.30pm

Unstoppable (2010) - Saturday 25th June 2011 at 7.30pm

For our 2011/12 season, we screened six films. Please see our programme page for full details.

By popular demand, we had two screenings of each film, each being shown on two consecutive days:

True Grit (2011) - Sunday 30th October 2011 at 7.30pm and Monday 31st October 2011 at 7.30pm

Black Swan (2011) - Friday 25th November 2011 at 7.30pm and Saturday 26th November 2011 at 7.30pm

The Lion King (1994) - Thursday 29th December 2011 at 2.30pm and Friday 30th December 2011 at 7.30pm

The Conspirator (2011) - Friday 27th January 2012 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th January 2012 at 7.30pm

Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011) - Friday 24th February 2012 at 7.30pm and Saturday 25th February 2012 at 7.30pm

We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011) - Friday 30th March 2012 at 7.30pm and Saturday 31st March 2012 at 7.30pm

Our 2012/13 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

The Descendants (2011) - Sunday 28th October 2012 at 7.30pm and Monday 29th October 2012 at 7.30pm

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2012) - Friday 23rd November 2012 at 7.30pm and Saturday 24th November 2012 at 7.30pm

The Pirates! (2012) - Friday 28th December 2012 at 2.30pm and Saturday 29th December 2012 at 7.30pm

The Artist (2011) - Saturday 26th January 2013 at 7.30pm and Sunday 27th January 2013 at 7.30pm

Hugo (2011) - Friday 22nd February 2013 at 7.30pm and Saturday 23rd February 2013 at 7.30pm

Skyfall (2012) - Friday 29th March 2013 at 7.30pm and Saturday 30th March 2013 at 7.30pm

Our 2013/14 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

Argo (2012) - Sunday 27th October 2013 at 7.30pm and Monday 28th October 2013 at 7.30pm

Life of Pi (2012) - Friday 22nd November 2013 at 7.30pm and Saturday 23rd November 2013 at 7.30pm

Brave (2012) - Friday 27th December 2013 at 2.30pm and Saturday 28th December 2013 at 7.30pm

Quartet (2012) - Sunday 26th January 2014 at 7.30pm and Monday 27th January 2014 at 7.30pm

Les Misérables (2012) - Friday 28th February 2014 at 7.30pm and Saturday 1st March 2014 at 7.30pm

The Great Gatsby (2013) - Friday 28th March 2014 at 7.30pm and Saturday 29th March 2014 at 7.30pm

Our 2014/15 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

Captain Phillips (2013) - Friday 31st October 2014 at 7.30pm and Saturday 1st November 2014 at 7.30pm

Gravity (2013) - Friday 14th November 2014 at 7.30pm and Saturday 15th November 2014 at 7.30pm

The Hundred-Foot Journey (2014) - Friday 26th December 2014 at 7.30pm and Saturday 27th December 2014 at 7.30pm

Philomena (2014) - Friday 30th January 2015 at 7.30pm and Saturday 31st January 2015 at 7.30pm

The Railway Man (2014) - Friday 27th February 2015 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th February 2015 at 7.30pm

12 Years a Slave (2014) - Friday 27th March 2015 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th March 2015 at 7.30pm

Our 2015/16 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

What We Did On Our Holiday (2014) - Friday 30th October 2015 at 7.30pm and Saturday 31st October 2015 at 7.30pm

The Imitation Game (2014) - Friday 13th November 2015 at 7.30pm and Saturday 14th November 2015 at 7.30pm

Paddington (2014) - Sunday 27thDecember 2015 at 7.30pm and Monday 28th December 2015 at 7.30pm

The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014) - Friday 29th January 2016 at 7.30pm and Saturday 30th January 2016 at 7.30pm

The Theory of Everything (2014) - Friday 26th February 2016 at 7.30pm and Saturday 27th February 2016 at 7.30pm

The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (2015) - Friday 25th March 2016 at 7.30pm and Saturday 26th March 2016 at 7.30pm

Our 2016/17 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

The Lady in the Van (2015) - Saturday 29th October 2016 at 7.30pm and Sunday 3oth October 2016 at 7.30pm

Bridge of Spies (2015) - Saturday 19th November 2016 at 7.30pm and Sunday 20th November 2016 at 7.30pm

The Intern (2015) - Thursday 29th December 2016 at 7.30pm and Friday 30th December 2016 at 7.30pm

Brooklyn (2015) - Friday 27th January 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th January 2017 at 7.30pm

Eye in the Sky (2016) - Friday 24th February 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 25th February 2017 at 7.30pm

Florence Foster Jenkins (2016) - Friday 31st March 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 1st April 2017 at 7.30pm

Our 2017/18 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

La La Land (2016) - Friday 27th October 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th October 2017 at 7.30pm

Churchill (2017) - Friday 17th November 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 18th November 2017 at 7.30pm

Zootropolis (2016) - Friday 29th December 2017 at 7.30pm and Saturday 30th December 2017 at 7.30pm

Lion (2016) - Friday 26th January 2018 at 7.30pm and Saturday 27th January 2018 at 7.30pm

Sully (2016) - Friday 23rd February 2018 at 7.30pm and Saturday 24th February 2018 at 7.30pm

Hidden Figures (2016) - Friday 30th March 2018 at 7.30pm and Saturday 31st March 2018 at 7.30pm

Our 2018/19 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

Darkest Hour (2017) - Saturday 27th October 2018 at 7.30pm and Sunday 28th October 2018 at 7.30pm

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018) - Friday 23rd November 2018 at 7.30pm and Saturday 24th November 2018 at 7.30pm

Paddington 2 (2017) - Friday 28th December 2018 at 7.30pm and Saturday 29th December 2018 at 7.30pm

The Post (2017) - Friday 25th January 2019 at 7.30pm and Saturday 26th January 2019 at 7.30pm

The Children Act (2018) - Friday 22nd February 2019 at 7.30pm and Saturday 23rd February 2019 at 7.30pm

Finding Your Feet (2018) - Friday 29th March 2019 at 7.30pm and Saturday 30th March 2019 at 7.30pm

Our 2019/20 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

Stan and Ollie (2018) - Saturday 26th October 2019 at 7.30pm and Sunday 27th October 2019 at 7.30pm

First Man (2018) - Friday 15th November 2019 at 7.30pm and Saturday 16th November 2019 at 7.30pm

Smallfoot (2018) - Friday 27th December 2019 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th December 2019 at 7.30pm

Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) - Friday 31st January 2020 at 7.30pm and Saturday 1st February 2020 at 7.30pm

Green Book (2018) - Friday 28th February 2020 at 7.30pm and Saturday 29th February 2020 at 7.30pm

Fisherman's Friends (2019) - Screenings cancelled due to closure of The Corn Exchange

Following the closure of the Corn Exchange during the Covid-19 pandemic, our 2022/23 season also featured six films, again each being shown on two consecutive days. Please see our programme page for full details.

The Duke (2022) - Friday 28th October 2022 at 7.30pm and Saturday 29th October 2022 at 7.30pm

Belfast (2021) - Friday 18th November 2022 at 7.30pm and Saturday 19th November 2022 at 7.30pm

West Side Story (2021) - Wednesday 28th December 2022 at 7.30pm and Thursday 29th December 2022 at 7.30pm

The Father (2021) - Friday 27th January 2023 at 7.30pm and Saturday 28th January 2023 at 7.30pm

The War Below (2021) - Friday 24th February 2023 at 7.30pm and Saturday 25th February 2023 at 7.30pm

Nomadland (2021) - Friday 24th March 2023 at 7.30pm and Saturday 25th March 2023 ay 7.30pm

The Rotary Club of Biggar is one of the 1,850 clubs which make up RIBI - Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland. In turn, RIBI is part of Rotary International, a worldwide organisation of business, professional, and community men and women who undertake a wide range of humanitarian work and who believe in the concept of Service above Self.

Biggar Rotary Club has around 35 members, from a range of professions and vocations – from medicine to insurance, from food manufacturing to law, from farming to motor engineering. About half the members are retired. Like other Rotary Clubs, it is nonpolitical, nonreligious, and open to all cultures, races, and creeds.

The Club organises and supports a considerable number of projects, both locally, nationally and internationally.

For example, it has links with Biggar High School and a number of local Primary Schools, and works hard to offer support and encouragement to young people through a variety of initiatives. Equally, it works with the not-so-young to help enrich their lives. The Club supports vocational visits and visits from young people to Scotland from all over the world. It provides support and assistance, both financial and hands-on, to charities and local community projects, as well as those further afield.

The above only represents a fraction of the work which the Club undertakes each year.

Biggar Rotary Club is always looking for new members to help with its work and to enjoy the fellowship of like-minded individuals.

Please click on the link below to find out more about joining the Rotary Club of Biggar.

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