St Patrick's & St Catherine's Shotts

06/06/2026

TRIP #100 Update - The "Adult" Train!:

St Patrick's Picnic Group currently have 2 main objectives.
To provide the children of our school & Parish with a summer trip to the seaside and a gift with a "guest" at Christmas.

These objectives, for decades, have been funded from many great sources but by far the biggest, is our totally committed "Weekly Sweep Membership".💚

The play about "100 years of The Trip " "Trains, Weans & Water Pistols" Told us of the huge numbers who used to attend our fantastic Trip excursion. Sometimes the huge numbers travelling required 3 Trains! And those of a certain age will remember it being 2 Trains for years & Years!

For a long time now though, it has been 1 train, and that has been split between the Children and the Adults.

For a number of recent years people have commented on how the class numbers are down.😪
We are absolutely delighted that this year those numbers have risen significantly.

On a single train though, that has a knock-on effect on how many adults can then safely, travel on the same train.

With around 450 eligible sweep members and a maximum of 130 adult train seats available!! this was never ever going to be easy!!
To ensure a fair and impartial allocation process, a ballot was called for.
All eligible sweep members who indicated their participation were entered and drawn.

We offer our huge congratulations to those who have been successful and we offer our sincere best 'wishes to those included in the draw but who have not been successful this year

While we would like to be able to provide a certain ticket to every sweep member who applied, the limited number available unfortunately makes this impossible.

We thank everyone for their patience & understanding while this ballot process was carried out.

Notifications have now gone out to those who were successful.
And sincere commiserations have gone out to those who did not get what they were looking for.

Every single person who was unsuccessful in the first ballot was then
re-drawn for a position on the waiting list.

If your circumstances change and you no- longer require a train ticket then please let us know so your ticket or your place on the waiting list, can be offered to the next eligible Sweep Member.

Thank you so much for your continued support
Spiritually, physically & financially.

Trip #100: Burntisland - Here we come!
Fortis In Fide

🚂🎺🥁🎶💚❤️

06/06/2026

Parish Bulletin - Sunday 7th June 🙏

02/06/2026

Update - Adult Train Tickets:

Thank you to all of the sweep members who have replied to our message regarding adult train tickets and apologies to those who for whatever, reason never received the message when it was sent out.

We have made an attempt to secure a bigger train but for various reasons this will not be possible.

At this time around 70 sweep members have not replied to us, but from the number who have, we now know that a ballot will have to take place.

If you have not replied then please do so quickly as you only have a few hours left to do so.

We hope after the secondary school kids registration tomorrow night to know how many tickets we can offer out to sweep members and to get the ballot done as quickly as possible so we can let you all know if you have been successful or not.

Thank you very much 💚 ❤️

01/06/2026

Volunteers needed.

30/05/2026

The Holy Trinity 🙏

30/05/2026

Info re a charm bracelet found in the carpark a few weeks ago after a funeral Mass.

30/05/2026

Parish Bulletin - Sunday 31st May 🙏

29/05/2026

Important information regarding The Trip

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION REGARDING THE TRIP #100 – BURNTISLAND 2026

This year, our parish family trip, will once again travel over to the east coast and visit the lovely town of Burntisland in Fife. The date will be Sunday 21st of June 2026.
Come with us to the seaside.

PRIMARY CHILDREN:
The parents/Guardians of the children at St Patrick's primary school have been emailed from the school office asking them to register the details of any child attending.
This will have to be done individually for each child.
Please register as soon as possible (link closed at 5.00pm on 29/05/26 so contact us directly so all necessary arrangements can be made for your child).

S1 - S3 SECONDARY SCHOOL CHILDREN;
Any child in First, Second or Third year at high school and who attended St Patricks Primary, are invited to register for the train on Wednesday night 3rd of June from 7.30pm to 8.00pm in the Parish Centre.

Any questions regarding registration please email us at:
[email protected]

PLEASE NOTE: If you have a child attending the trip then you too as parent/guardian need to come to Burntisland to meet them there for the family day out at the seaside.

ADULT TRAIN - The very limited number of tickets available, are for eligible sweep members only! All sweep members have been contacted and we are currently registering responses. At this stage it looks like a ballot for train tickets will be required - More details on this to follow.
*If you are a sweep member who has not received a text message please get in touch.

When buying a ticket as a sweep member it will be registered against your name. If you are buying this for someone else, then please be advised that it is you who will be held liable for this ticket at all times!
Be very careful please. We have come so far, please do not let all the happy memories and hard work by so many be destroyed by a moment of poor decision!

BOOM! Make sure your child is registered for train travel to the trip!

BOOM! Thank you to everyone who contributes to our weekly sweep to help keep this St Patrick's Parish tradition going - Your commitment is both incredible and unrivalled.

BOOM! It is now ONLY 3 WEEKS until "The Trip," "The Big Trip," "The Terry Trip" departs Shotts for a trip to the seaside town of Burntisland on SUNDAY 21st OF JUNE 2025

Families, friends, parishioners & neighbours. Come with us to the seaside.

St Patricks Picnic Group – 100 Not Out!
Fortis In Fide!

28/05/2026

25/05/2026

Many hands make light work 🙏