Blog List – Modern
Opportunity at Cruachan woods for Woodland Crofts and Community Owned Housing
As most folk locally know, HIE is selling Orbost Estate, and it was always the intention that it would go into community ownership. When HIE first approached DCT about the sale several years ago, DCT commissioned a feasibility study to look into buying the whole estate (excluding the farm and small ...
Email from Scottish Woodlands regarding infected larch along the 2 Churches walk
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 de...
Dunvegan Playpark Update
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 curr...
The Dunvegan Community Trust New Website Launch, April 2023
Website launch! Hooray!
Polytunnel built at Dunvegan School
Dunvegan Parent Council applied for and was granted £7228 funding for a full year of forest school provision during Covid 19 and a poly club up at the school. Due to the pandemic children were encouraged to spend as much time in outdoors or in ventilated spaces as possible, so this supported their o...
What Direction for Dunvegan Survey Autumn 2021
Website launch! Hooray!
Final Feasibility Report, Orbost Forest June 2021
Website launch! Hooray!
Community Conversations September 2020
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 newslette...