NWC NEWS & PR
“THANK YOU! from all of us at LWR Community Activities” -
"The 2023 LWR Tribute to Heroes Parade was a huge success. We raised over $8000 that we donated to our 2 beneficiaries VFW Post 12055 & Del Webb AVMS, and we were also able to contribute to the Denis V Cooper Foundation - Wishes for Heroes, LWR Wind Ensemble, LWRHS Band Boosters, Hernando DeSoto Historical Society, Sammys Run, and LWR CERT.
THANK YOU for your participation in our parade. We hope to see you again next year!"
Joanna Bailey, Director of Events and Partnerships
February 22, 2021
NWC-SRQ In The News
Check out our NWC-SRQ article in the Celtic Nations Magazine - March Issue.
To view the full magazine:
January 30, 2021
Robert Burns Brunch & Day of Celtic Music
Please join us and celebrate Robert Burns 262nd birthday! We will start off with a relaxed brunch with traditional Scottish food, yes haggis too, with a few yummy tweaks here and there. Please message us privately to mention that you will attend. We want to make sure that we have enough food at the brunch.
A Robert Burns musical presentation with be conducted by Scottish/Celtic/Folksinger Colin Grant-Adams of Oban Scotland and now living in Glasgow Kentucky. Colin travels all over the USA performing at Highland Games & Concerts, www.colingrant-adams.com
February 27, 2021
2021 Pints & Putts
Please join us as we host a Putt Putt Golf tournament at Evie's on The Range in Sarasota! Golf was invented by the Scots so we should know a little bit as how to putt. Right? If you would like to sponsor a hole and or enter a 4 member team (kids & adults too)! please message or email us for information! nwc.sarasota@gmail.com. Awards will be handed out to the best and possibly not the best teams! Monies raised at this event will go to our scholarship fund and SOLE - Supporters of Law Enforcement. More detailed info will be coming soon.....
After the tourney please grab a pint or 2 and listen to the great Celtic music of Clover's Revenge! Raffle prizes and lots of Celtic fun will be in abundance! This event is kid friendly! See you there!
November 21, 2020
Kilts Toy Drive & Sycamore Shade
This year we will collected for SPARCC, Mothers Helping Mothers and Child Protection Center!!
SPARCC is " Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center" a organization that helps women who are victims of domestic violence.
https://www.sparcc.net/
http://www.mhmsarasota.com/
http://www.cpcsarasota.org/
https://www.childrenfirst.net/
We would like to thank everyone's generosity for our successful toy drive! Many mothers in the area will greatly benefit from your efforts!
We would like to thank Pub 32 Irish Gastropub their hospitality and Sycamore Shade for their outstanding musical performance! Hats off to our hardworking New World Celts - Sarasota members!! You all are the best and we look forward to seeing you soon!
April 11, 2020
Kilted Against Covid-19
Members of the Sarasota New World Celts organized and participated in a blood drive today. With local counties in dire need of blood and blood products during the pandemic Coronavirus COVID-19, the Suncoast Blood Bank brought one of its mobile units - appropriately named B Positive - to the Bradenton home of husband and wife Michael Ward and Kimberly Gonzalez on Saturday, April 11, 2020. The couple and New World Celts dedicated themselves to coming up with a way to give to the community while still practicing social distances, and contacted Suncoast Blood Bank Senior Donor Group Representative Cindy Winning. Working together over the past month, they secured a mobile unit, staff, friends and family - and Smokin Momma Lora’s BBQ Food Truck to sustain the generous donors and staff with Lora’s delicious pulled pork, baked beans and coleslaw. Safeguards were put into place to ensure everyone was fully compliant with CDC recommendations and included only allowing two donors at a time, taking the temperature of each donor prior to entering the bus, wiping beds and equipment with envirocide, putting the squeeze balls into rubber gloves and disposing between patients, and providing masks for everyone. Thirteen people filled the time slots between 10 AM and 2 PM.
February 29, 2020
Pints & Puts in Feb 2020
Please join us as we host a Putt Putt Golf tournament at Evie's on The Range in Sarasota! Golf was invented by the Scots so we should know a little bit as how to putt. Right? If you would like to sponsor a hole and or enter a 4 member team (kids & adults too)! please message or email us for information! nwc.sarasota@gmail.com. Awards will be handed out to the best and possibly not the best teams! Monies raised at this event will go to our scholarship fund to and the Sarasota Police Foundation. More detailed info will be coming soon.....
After the tourney please grab a pint or 2 and listen to the great Celtic music of Whiskey Dregs! Raffle prizes and lots of Celtic fun will be in abundance! This event is kid friendly! See you there!
December 20, 2019
Toy Drive
NWC hosted multiple toy drives for various women's groups in Sarasota.
Toys were collected for SPARRC Sarasota, Mothers Helping Mothers, The Child Protective Centre and Children First, Inc
August 17, 2019
Kilts & Heroes
We recognized our Military & First Responders (all active & retired) for evening of Celtic fun, music and food! JDubs hosted their monthly food truck rally too! We were able to give $250 to the Sarasota Firefighters Benelvenont Fund.
August 24, 2019
Kilts on Coquina Beach
We awarded $800 scholarship to a young Scottish Dancer.
New World Celts Sarasota had their annual Celtic Beach Cookout.
NWC provided burgers & hotdogs.
Celtic acoustical instruments and musicians were welcome.
Bagpipes/drums & Celtic dancers too!!
Scholarship Offered for Celtic Students
As a core part of our mission, the New World Celts exists to promote the Heritage of our Seven Ancient Celtic Nations. One way we do this, is to provide a vehicle for charitable donations that promote Celtic culture in the New World. Accepting Applications through Jan 15th, 2020.