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Global fundraiser launched to save home of Auld Lang Syne

Dumfries and Galloway Standard

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November 28, 2025

The Robert Burns Ellisland Trust launches its international fundraising campaign tonight at a special event in Glasgow-just ahead of St Andrew’s Day.

- SHARON LIPTROTT

Global fundraiser launched to save home of Auld Lang Syne

Determined Duncan Dornan, chairman of the Robert Burns Ellisland Trust and project director Joan McAlpine, pictured in The Spence - Robert Burns' study at Ellisland Farm - are determined to raise £12 million to save it

It aims to save the historic farm near Dumfries where Burns lived, farmed, and wrote Auld Lang Syne and more than a quarter of his entire body of work.

The Saving the Home of Auld Lang Syne campaign seeks to raise £12 million to restore the only home built by Burns, safeguard a collection of national importance, and create a world-class cultural destination in Dumfriesshire that connects the poet's legacy with contemporary creativity.

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