News
Community Action Plan
Community Action Plans (CAPs) have been growing in importance over recent years, becoming an essential tool in community development. CAPs do not just express local needs/opportunities and direct locally led development. They are also crucial to lobbying Government for statutory services and communicating with funders and other outside influences.
Gaeltec Buildings
We are thrilled to announce that the Gaeltec Buildings are now owned by the local community! The purchase completed on 24 October, and was made possible with funding from the Scottish Land Fund.
During several rounds of consultation with all of you, ambitious plans for the refurbishment of the buildings have been brought together on behalf of the community by Rural Design Architects. The buildings will undergo a phased refurbishment, to include loads of facilities and services that are important to us all: a community gym, tool library with workshop space, multi-use space, childcare facilities, units for small businesses and service providers and a shared workspace.
We’re very excited to steward the buildings and look forward to seeing lots of you coming through the doors and making the most of this important community asset in the coming months and years!
Affordable Housing and Land
We are thrilled to share some fantastic news with the community: the purchase of Orbost Farmhouse, Cruachan Woodland and Cnoc nan Craobh is officially complete! This has been a long time coming, and we look forward to the house and 2 woodland crofts accomodating 4 more families.
Community Park
After a huge local effort and a successful run of funding and fundraising, Dunvegan Community Park is now complete and open for use!
Community Transport
It’s very easy to become blinkered, by our own personal circumstances, or in terms of DCT and its volunteers and staff – by the projects we are working on (which can often take years to progress) and what our own interests are.
Community Woodland
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 holdings , which are not part of the sale), as well as several surveys to gauge community support.