Kilfinan Community Forest recruiting for a Forest Operations Manager
The Kilfinan Community Forest Company is looking for an outstanding individual to take forward the next phase of its development.An outline description of the job and contacts for potential applicants...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland hosts successful Oban conference
Community Land Scotland, which represents Scotland’s community landowners, hosted a conference today (Friday 7th December) in Oban’s Corran Halls to promote community ownership of land in Argyll.The...
View ArticleCowal community buys 600 hectare Stronafian Forest
In the biggest community forest land purchase Argyll has see since Mull Community Woodland Ltd bought 800 hectares in 2005, the unified communities of Colintraive and Glendaruel in south west Cowal,...
View ArticleCowal, Wester Ross, Moray and Borders celebrate first Scottish Land Fund Awards
Launched in 2012, the £6 million Scottish Land Fund is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered by the Big Lottery Fund in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise. Awards announced...
View ArticleWhat our local and regional MSPs have been saying this week
It’s been quite a lively week, with a variety of MSPs concerned with Argyll and Bute and with its hinterlands, commenting on a variety of matters of interest to Argyll and to Scotland.There are six...
View ArticleJura sustainability boost with £650k from Big Lottery Scotland
Big Lottery Fund Scotland has just announced – 27th February – its latest package of funding worth over £3.3 million to six projects across Scotland.Amongst the six is the Isle of Jura Development...
View ArticleGrant award for new facilities at Kilfinan Community Woodland
Dateline: Tighnabruaich. Argyl. 27th February 2013. Kilfinan Community Forest Company. Mission:to announce the birth of a new development in its forest initiative.It has just been awarded £10,000 from...
View ArticleScottish Government gives Raasay crofters a consultation on shooting rights
The crofters of the Isle of Raasay, who managed shooting and fishing rights over the island, found themselves dispossessed by a government which has previously looked generously after their...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland repeats call for support for local land ownership in...
Confusion continues over precisely what the Scottish Government has and has not done in reopening, to an unknown extent, the issue of the award of shooting and fishing fishing rights for the Isle of...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland harvests First Minister as main speaker for June...
First Minister, Alex Salmond, has agreed to be the lead speaker at Community Land Scotland’s 2013 Conference to take place on 7th and 8th June at Sabhal Mor Ostaig, the renowned Gaelic College on...
View ArticleNew oxygen for continuing land reform issue
On Saturday’s [20th April], at the Labour Conference in Inverness, Scottish Labour Leader, Johann Lamont sent a strong message in support of continuing land reform.Commenting on this development, David...
View ArticleCommunity Land Scotland’s heart and head at odds
David Cameron, Chair of Community Land Scotland – the organisation which represents Scotland’s growing number of community land owners – has made a call for the Land Reform Review Group [established by...
View ArticleLand Reform Review Group’s Interim Report – an empty envelope addressed to a...
When First Minister Alex Salmond, speaking at a summer cabinet meeting in Skye on 24th July 2012, announced details of a Land Reform Review Group he was establishing, he presented it as an agent of...
View ArticleConsultation on Ross of Mull and Iona Development Group bid to buy Glen...
In an new communal initiative, Ross of Mull and Iona Development Group (ROMID) has applied to the National Forest Land Scheme (NFLS) to purchase land at Glen Seilisdeir Forest at Tiroran on the Isle of...
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Pier crisis calls time for Inveraray to take responsibility for itself
[20.30 update below] For Argyll did a photographic expose of the thoroughly dangerous state of Inveraray Pier just under a year ago, on 24th August 2012 – Serious neglect of Inveraray Pier.This was not...
View Article4 hour Bristol Surprise Royal as 75th anniversary peal for Inveraray’s All...
The 10 Bells at All Saints’ Church, Inveraray – the second heaviest ring of 10 bells in the world – will be rung specially to a peal to mark the 75th anniversary of the ringing of the first peal on the...
View ArticleAwards for All funding for two Helensburgh and Lomond groups
The National Lottery Awards for All fund has made grants to two groups from Helensburgh and Lomond.Helensburgh and District Twinning Association has been awarded £3,100 to contribute towards their 30th...
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Colonsay looks to buy out its hotel and pub
After a prolonged period of ‘now it’s open, now it’s not’ – including three months when the community stepped in to rent and run it, the Colonsay Hotel is for sale, with the island’s community...
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BBC ALBA’s ‘From Harris with love’– putting us through the wringer
Called ‘A chronicle of life in a unique island community’, BBC ALBA’s upcoming Chì Mì’n Tìr / From Harris with Love airs on Monday 16th September for a scant 30 minutes – 20.30-21.00. The good news is...
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Ardentinny Community Trust auction offers prime time slot on Dunoon Community...
Ardentinny Community Trust’s fundraising auction this weekend at Dunoon’s Burgh Hall has, amongst the lots on offer, a prime time slot for aspiring broadcasters on Dunoon Community Radio.DJ Victor...
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