Welcome
BearScots is the Scottish bears group. We were founded in the spring of 2000 and now have nearly one hundred members in Scotland and around the world. We hold monthly bear events in Edinburgh and host the annual 'BearScotFest' extravaganza in October. We also run regular trips and visits across Scotland and around the UK for our members, such as our 'Bears in the Hills' weekend in the spring and our 'BearScots BBQ' in late summer.
Become a BearScots Member
Come and join the BearScots community. Its easy, just fill in a form online or catch us at any of the regular bear events. You will receive a membership card and pack with an exclusive BearScots badge, plus regular newsletters keeping you informed of up and coming events.Memberships also gives you great discount on merchandise and priority booking for events. You also help to support the promotion of our busy monthly nights and BearScotFest. We welcome members from around the world.
If you have any queries about membership contact Graham at treasurer@bearscots.org.uk
Thanks for your support!
Bears Party!
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Studio 24, Calton Road, Edinburgh. Friday 20th August - 22:00 - 05:00 Following on from a successful launch night in July, Bearscots member Ged has organised another Fundraiser Bearparty Dance night at Studio 24 on Calton Road . Admission and raffle monies all go to Waverley Care, Scotland's HIV charity. Admission £5 with discount for Bearscots members. Get Shoogling some more! |
BearScotFest ’10
Come join us in Edinburgh, Scotland’s beautiful capital city, for our 9th annual BearScotFest weekend, Friday 08 - Sunday 10 October 2010. |
Following on from last years’ successful event, and the fact
that this year is Bearscots’ 10th Birthday, we are hoping that BearScotFest 2010
will be bigger than ever though still as friendly and fun-filled. As in previous years, our home base is Dublin Street’s New Town Bar where you will find the main registration desk and a friendly welcome throughout the weekend. The programme this year is packed with things old and new: As well as our chilled out brunches, busy Bears in the Basement pub night, the ever-popular UnderBears party, steamy bears sauna at Steamworks, the Mr Bearscots competition and our charity fundraiser raffle, we also have two new city centre venues who are welcoming BearScotFesters for the first |
Add to this lots of food and drink promos, the beautiful city, and the friendly sexy local bears and you have a weekend not to be missed! There’s something for everyone, and a great opportunity to catch up with old friends and to make some new ones - and the whole weekend is only £22.50 for Bearscots Members and £25.00 for non-members!
Programme:
- Friday 08 October
- Registration Desk opens from 1200 hrs
- Welcome drinks & canapés
- Bears in the Basement I @ The New Town till 2am
- Bears in the Basement II @ CC Blooms till 3am
- Saturday 09 October
- Bears Brunch at The Regent
- Underbears Party at the New Town or
- Bears in the City - Edinburgh Sightseeing Tour and Edinburgh Castle visit (additional charge) or
- Culture Bears - Art Exhibition, Book Reading and Book Signing at The Regent
- Bears in the Caves Club till 3am.
- Sunday 10 October
- Bears Brunch at the New Town
- Bears at the Circus - Cabaret afternoon at Electric Circus, including a fantastic live band, Ceilidh Dancing, Bearaoke, Scottish canapés, Mr BearScots competition and our Charity Raffle Prize Draw.
- Chilled Out Bears - drinks and nibbles at The New Town
In addition to the above programme, the bears also have full-weekend access to Steamworks Sauna, receiving fantastic discounts with their BearScotFest pass as well as being welcomed by Jimmy, Alan and all the gorgeous staff at the New Town Bar throughout the weekend for drinks and food.
(NB BearScots reserve the right to make changes to the programme as deemed necessary.)
Registration:
An easy, and hopefully painless, process! Just follow the link to our registration page.Here you can register, get all the information you need, pay securely online using a credit card and print off your confirmation. Simples!
When registering, you will be asked to supply an email address and choose a password which allows you access to your booking online. You can book just for yourself, your partner or a group of friends all in one go and remember that because our system is flexible you can access your registration at any time using your email address and password to make changes such as booking up for the optional activities, change names, add new friends to your booking, request help with accommodation or transport or pre-order our exclusive Bearscotfest10 merchandise which will be available soon.
Accommodation And Travel:
If you’re not staying with local friends and furballs, Edinburgh city centre offers a wide range of accommodation ranging from small B&Bs, apartments, and hotels from budget to 5-star boutiques.Check out the City of Edinburgh Tourist Information website at http://www.edinburgh.org, or try http://www.laterooms.com or http://www.expedia.co.uk
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Welcome:
The BearScotFest registration desk, staffed by your furry friendly BearScots team, can be found in the New Town Bar, our base for the weekend, and will be open from 12pm on Friday. Just bring along a copy of your confirmation and you can collect your welcome pack containing your pass to the whole weekend events; a full detailed program of what’s happening and where; handy maps and local information; contact details; and lots of BearScotFest goodies.Queries:
We will be available to help throughout the whole event but until then, if you have any questions, queries, or problems please contact us at events@bearscots.org.uk and we’ll do what we can to make BearScotFest 2010 fun and memorable for you!BearScotFest 09:
Still not sure? Well why not check out the BSF09 Video made by the fantastic Jonathan Robinson at funfur.tv. Go on... You know you want to!Photo Gallery
Check out our updated photo galleries, including this year's Bears in the Hills, our visit to the Great British Bear Bash in Manchester, and a rather drookit Pride Scotia!:
BearScots Mailing List
In addition to our membership, we also operate a regular monthly email service providing information about forthcoming BearScots events. If you would like to hear about what we are up to then why not enter your email address below and subscribe.
If you are looking to join BearScots, please click here instead.If you have a question about Scotland or
BearScots, then please email us - we can give you
some advice about where to visit and where to
stay.
