Events

The Calanais Centre is developing a team of volunteers who will record weather data, coastal erosion, other weather related erosion and site-specific erosion around the 3 standing stone circles in Callanish. The team will input data into the various ‘Citizen Science’ web portals the main ones being the Scottish Environment and European Environment Citizen science… Read More »Weather and Environmental Data Collection Launch

“Community Ownership on Knoydart” is an exhibition and collaborative event showcasing the achievements of Knoydart’s 7 community ownership organisations and representing what community ownership means to the people of Knoydart. Each organisation will have a platform to share their achievements and there will be a collation of words and images contributed by the community. Hosted… Read More »Community Ownership on Knoydart

Celebrate Community Land Week 2022 at Roystonhill Community Hub by learning all about ‘The Story of’ our community land sites in Royston, Glasgow, The Park on the Hill’ and Roystonhill Community Hub. You can enjoy a lovely sit-down afternoon tea and ask all of your burning questions to our artists, designers and staff.

Yer tea, a gab and a ceilidh. Now is the time for a radical rethink of our approach to land holding in Scotland; as a Common Responsibility, not an Individual Right. We’re being marched into yet another wave of land theft: this time parcelled up and sold off for carbon credits to multinationals and billionaires.… Read More »Bought and Sold for Carbon not Gold

This event will include the planting of native species of Scottish trees in the Douglas Support Estate and also the management of non native invasive plant species. These activities will be supported by information on the importance of woodland management and the benefits it can bring to support native species and wildlife. The Community Ownership… Read More »Community Woodland Management Day

Annan Harbour Action Group are hosting a Pumpkin patch for Community Land Week. We are welcoming families from the community to come along to choose and decorate their pumpkins. Pumpkins will be entered into a competition to win a spooky prize. At the same time we are offering marshmallow toasting by the campfire. Children can… Read More »Pumpkin Patch at Annan Harbour

Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn are hosting a ‘Makers Market’ for small businesses based on the Galson Estate. Small business owners who make, grow or catch their own produce (food, drinks, tweed, arts and crafts, etc) are invited to gather together in our local community centre to showcase and sell their goods. Residents are invited to come… Read More »Galson Estate Makers Market

South Islay Development would like to invite the community to a Family Fun Bingo Night with tea/coffee and home baking to celebrate community ownership on Islay.

We hold monthly work days to develop and maintain our new 45 acre woodland, recently planted with over 20,000 trees. Around 40 volunteers participate when they can – most of us have other lives too! Volunteers are individuals, couples and families and everyone is welcome. While adults do the heavy and skilled work, children are… Read More »Woodland Open Work Day