About Love Dumfries
Love Dumfries is all things Dumfries, all year round. We offer free listings for businesses, charities and community groups, alongside what's on, venue hire, what's open right now, public transport and the wildlife on your doorstep.
Everything on the site is about Dumfries itself: the events are ones you can walk to, the organisations are the ones trading and meeting here, and the listings are kept up to date by the people who run them.
For businesses and groups
A listing is free and takes a few minutes. Once it's yours you can add events, opening hours, photos and rooms for hire, and they appear across the site, in search and to the AI assistants that read our public what's-on server.
About DPAG
Dumfries Partnership Action Group (DPAG) is a registered charity set up to help fulfil the aims of Dynamically Different Dumfries and the Local Place Plan. Love Dumfries is operated by DPAG as part of that work.
The site was built by Gilbert West as a pro bono project with ♥ doonhame.
What's new
Love Dumfries is currently at version 3.3. The most recent changes, newest first:
September 2026 — Version 3.3
Repeating events now work like a calendar. Tick "Repeats" on the ordinary event form, choose the days (several weekdays, every other week, the first Tuesday of the month, the 15th of every month) and how long it runs, and every date is created for you. Edit the template and every future date follows; edit one date on its own and it keeps your change; extend the run whenever you like. The old four-step wizard is gone.
Long-running events such as exhibitions can now say which days they are closed, so they stop appearing under Today on a Sunday they don't open.
September 2026 — Version 3.2
Events now includes category filters as well as the usual time filters.
A new cinema listings page gathers every forthcoming film screening in Dumfries, whoever is showing it.
Redesigned footer that links straight to what's on today, tomorrow, this week, this weekend, next week and next weekend.
New RSS feed of everything happening in the next fortnight for your feed reader.
The search page can now switch between organisations and events. The date filters (today, tomorrow, this week, this weekend, next week) work on every event category page, not just the main what's-on list.
On mobile, the organisation login and Nature On Your Doorstep now sit in the bottom bar.
A new picks article on e-bikes, led by the WWCT video.
August 2026
Every event category now has its own icon and share image, so links to category pages look right on social media.
New dedicated fixtures page for home games of the main teams in Curling, Football, Ice Hockey and Rugby
Events, organisations, categories and search results can all be viewed as a grid of cards or a compact list, and the site remembers which you prefer. Organisation listings now show the organisation's logo, or its category icon where there isn't one, and every category has an icon.