Funded Projects

The following email has been received from Scottish Woodlands: “Scottish Forestry have identified a positive infection of Phytophthora ramorum within the larch trees along the 2 churches walk. This is a fungal disease which kills larch, and to try and slow the spread and impacts Scottish Forestry demand that infected stands be felled. As managing agents, Scottish Woodlands Ltd. are therefore in the planning stages of working out how the impacted woodlands may be felled and extracted while minimi...Read More

Dunvegan Community Trust are excited to be working on a project to redevelop the play park in the village. The current play park has been neglected for some time, and with The Highland Council having no plans to renovate it themselves, we would like to create a new and exciting play park on the current site. Volunteers have commissioned a project design from play equipment specialists Kompan and are working with the council to transfer the site into community use. To help us deliver this project...Read More

Dunvegan Community Trust formed a new committee in early August 2020 and one of the first things we talked about was what could the trust do better.  The previous committee commissioned a report on other community organisations in the Highlands and so the conversation began, firstly with a newsletter, secondly the Community Conversation. The survey itself began on 29 August and ran for two weeks. We also put paper copies in the post office and the Community Council shared the link. It has been g...Read More