Funded Projects
Notice of AGM!
Bliadhna mhath ùr! We will be holding our first AGM as a SCIO on Thursday 18th of January in Dunvegan Community Hall. It’s always tricky to get a time to suit everyone, so we have opted for 6pm with soup and ea and coffee, and a bit of homebaking! This Annual meeting is open to all members, and we would love to see you there. We will have draft plans for the Gaeltec Building available to look at and comment on, as well as visuals of some of our other ongoing projects. We’ll be kicking off the o...Read More
Dunvegan Playpark Crowdfunder Launched!
We’ve launched a Dunvegan Playpark Crowdfunder to get us closer to realising this great project. The Dunvegan Playpark Committee has been working closely with Kompan, a leading designer of accessible, sustainable playground equipment, to design a state of the art park for Dunvegan. The project costs are £150k, and while we are on the right track to achieving that target, we will need to have successful funding applications, and also pursue corporate sponsorship. So far, we have been grante...Read More
Dunvegan Playpark Project Boost!
The Dunvegan Playpark sub-committee received fantastic news last Friday, that Skye councillors have decided to allocate £30,983 amenities funding to the Dunvegan Community Playpark Project. In the current climate of budget squeezes, this comes as very welcome news to what is a very ambitious project for the area. The news came on the same day that we submitted our application to the Community Regeneration Fund for the project, so here’s hoping to even more good news soon. We will also be l...Read More
Gaeltec Buildings: Registering an interest under the Community Right to Buy
DCT are taking advantage of a tool within Community Right to Buy legislation to formally register an interest in the Gaeltec Buildings.This register is designed to protect community groups from external bidders swooping in and purchasing the asset while we are waiting to hear back from the Scottish Land Fund – it buys us a bit of time. To register an interest, we need to submit a paper petition which demonstrates that 10% of the resident community favours registering an interest in the lan...Read More
Gaeltec Buildings: Community Survey and Scottish Land Fund Update
Gaeltec Building: Community Survey and Scottish Land Fund Dunvegan Community Trust would like to thank everyone who contributed to our community survey for the Gaeltec Building. We are very happy to report that the survey was overwhelmingly successful and that we received lots of important feedback for this project. We would also like to thank Impact Hub Inverness for performing the survey on our behalf and for compiling a report for us, which we would like to share here. Please do contact us i...Read More
Notice of Community Council Elections
Sharing on behalf of Dunvegan Community Council Notice of Community Council Elections
Dunvegan Housing, School and Pitch plans shelved by Highland Council: Joint Statement from Dunvegan Community Trust and Dunvegan Parent Council
While we all feared this was coming, given the financial backdrop, we cannot stress enough the severity of the situation in NW Skye resulting from the lack of long term rental and affordable housing, our substandard school buildings and complete lack of recreational facilities. This is a result of years of non-investment, and it has really reached a crunch point. As I know Skye councillors are acutely aware, we have virtually no long term private rental market in NW Skye (like everywhere in Skye...Read More