News
Plans for the orchard
This week our new fruit trees arrived from Shielfoot Organics and we visited the site behind the playing field this week to see where would be best to plant them. A lot of clearing and deer-proofing will be needed before the trees can go in the ground so we are hoping to organise 2 community work days in February to prepare the site for planting (weather depending!)
Friday 21st February 1-4pm & Friday 28th February 10am-4pm. Sign up to volunteer here on our website or send us an message (email or facebook).
Successful Scottish Land Fund Award!
We are delighted to announce the successful award of £258,150 from the Scottish Land Fund to enable us to buy the site for community housing and two areas of amenity land in the village. Negotiations are now underway with the sellers and plans are ongoing for both projects. Within the village, owning the shorefront, playing field and the area around the field will enable us to take forward plans for sustainable tourism and continue to improve the facilities for residents and visitors: a new car park, new paths, better refuse management, new seating and interpretation boards are all part of the current plans. We are still actively consulting with residents and community members about these plans and welcome input or suggestions…what would you like us to do with these areas? What is working and what is not working. Please let us know.