Tayvallich Initiative

Tayvallich Initiative: Community ownership for affordable housing, local jobs, sustaining land and community

The Tayvallich peninsula in Mid Argyll is an exceptional place, where landscape and sympathetic farming enable nationally and internationally important wildlife to prosper. The local community has come together in the Tayvallich Initiative (a company limited by guarantee, with charitable status) to manage some land and houses, some of which was gift to the community and some of which was purchased with an award from Scottish Land Fund. There is some legacy land gifted by a late resident of the village, and some land and a house gifted by the former owners of Tayvallich Estate. Two community-owned houses are now owned and rented out in Tayvallich. Tayvallich Initiative was established in 2022. In 2023, after more than 70 years of ownership by one family, Tayvallich Estate, which covers around 1,370 hectares (3,300) acres of the peninsula, was sold to Highlands Rewilding Ltd. The sale creates an opportunity to secure and enhance the value of this special area. In 2023 Tayvallich Initiative negotiated and signed a wide-reaching ground-breaking Memorandum of Understanding between Highlands Rewilding Ltd and Tayvallich Initiative.