Aird Scouts Group is inviting any member of our community to help out.
So this Thursday, 17th May, we will be providing help to keep nature in check by clearing weeds from the path between Inchmore and Reelig. The path has been narrowed by encroaching grasses so the Scouts are going to push them back!
What each Scout/volunteer will need is:
- a flat spade or trowel,
some gardening gloves (any gloves will do to stop blisters forming)
along with the usual waterproof jacket if it looks like rain.
We would also like parents to join in as well so we can make the maximum impact on the path so if you can come along that would be fantastic.
Meet at the Bog Roy Inn(The Inn Formerly Know as The Old North Inn) car park at 7 pm. Pick up as usual at 9 pm.
See you then
Paul, Helen, Andy, Karen
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Tattie Bogle website from Skye. And of the course the week will be finish off with a fantastic Gala Day with a huge range of activities and stalls including a gun dog and falconry display and the Gala Dance featuring Torridon.
Food demonstration night
The food demo night is one for all those budding ‘Jamie Oliver’s’ and ‘Gordon Ramsay’s’ as well as the budding ‘Nigella’s’ and ‘Delia’s’. It will be a really great night with the chance to sample the delicacies made and have a couple of glasses of wine and a chance to catch up with people that you just don’t see enough of. You’ll get loads of hints and tips from Louisa from the Kitchen Range in Dingwall and a chance to purchase some of the many items she stocks in her shop.
Pamper Evening
The Pamper Evening is for ladies of all ages, from pampered princesses to queen mothers. There’s a full night of pamper opportunities and your ticket includes a glass of wine and homemade shortbread. There will be a number of short demonstrations from cupcake decorating, cocktail making, and ethnic jewellery and luxury facials. Ladies will have the chance to book mini treatments at a cost of £3 a time (a real bargain) which will include glitter tattoos, reflexology, head massage, tidy and polish nail treatments, hand massages, eyebrow shaping, hair straightening and curling, neck and shoulder massage, gel nail overlays. They’ll also be stalls including Jewellery, Jamie at Home, Temple Spa, Lush, Luxury Candles, Handbags and Scarves, Cake Mamma to name a few.
Sorry fellas you are not allowed, but there is Junior Shinty on which will attract a good crowd and is very entertaining. Our community centre and grounds will literally be bursting on this night so if you can please don’t take your car if you don’t need to.
Help needed
We are looking for donations for Tombola – please contact Wilma Williamson on 831737. If you have any books to donate, please contact Joan MacKay on 831578.
Full gala programme
Download the full Gala Programme
Kirkhill Community Centre
Finally, don’t forget that Kirkhill Gala Week supports Kirkhill Community Centre and helps us keep fantastic facilities for the whole community to enjoy. This year we are celebrating our 25th anniversary. We have also just heard the news that we have secured the funding needed to renovate and extend the community centre. We’re using all the reserves we have and taking out a loan so your support is needed more than ever. We want to make the community facilities in Kirkhill the best in the area.
Find out more in Funding secured for Kirkhill Centre Forward project
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Highland LEADER programme have awarded us £150,000 towards the £304,000 we need for the project. We had already secured funding from the Climate Challenge Fund, Robertson Trust, Garfield Weston Foundation and the Highland Council Ward Fund. The funding also includes £62,000 of the KDAA’s own money and a Highland Opportunity loan of £20,000.
The plans for the centre include enlarging the kitchen and vestibule, improving the changing rooms, insulating throughout, and creating a larger brighter vestibule with a Post Office counter/box office in the existing hall. The extension will include a new meeting room, store and toilets. You can find out more on the Kirkhill Centre Forward page.
The Kirkhill Centre Forward committee has done a huge amount of work to get the project to this stage and thanks should go to them all, particularly Alasdair Morrison for leading the team and Sandra Hogg for filling in all the funding applications. Alasdair said, “We’re delighted that this project can finally go ahead. It’s been a long term aspiration of this community and with a growing population is much needed.”
There’s still a lot of work to do but we hope that we will be able to start work in early July and reopen in October.
Finally we’d like to thank the whole community for their support over the years . The fundraising during Gala Week has enabled us to build up sufficient funds for this project to go ahead. However, as we’re committing all the funds we have available and taking out a loan it makes it more important than ever that this year’s Gala is a success.
Please come along to support the events and help us make sure the new community centre is fit for the next 25 years.
public consultation on the Main Issues Report which will be used to inform the preparation of the Inner Moray Firth Local Development Plan. This consultation will last for 12 weeks. The Main Issues Report sets out a number of initial options for where development should and should not occur within the Inner Moray Firth area and how to address a number of other issues affecting the area. The Main Issues Report includes a number of sites submitted for consideration by communities, landowners and developers during the Council’s “Call for Sites” undertaken in early 2011.
Public Exhibitions and Evening Workshops
The Highland Council are holding consultation events in each of the main settlements within the Inner Moray Firth area between April and June 2012. The Kirkhill meeting is on the 25th of April at Kirkhill Community Centre. Drop in any time between 2pm and 6.30pm.
A round table discussion is also being held at each of the same communities on the same evening. If you wish to attend any of the evening events please contact 01463 702259. Please let us know if you have any accessibility issues such as the need for disabled access to a venue.
Go along and see what future developments may be in lined for our community and express your views to the Community Council on how you wish the area to be developed.
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