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Culbokie Community Trust September Newsletter

The CCT Board have been very busy with a number of different projects, and some of these are highlighted below. There is also the regular reminder of the Community Market next Saturday.

However, I wanted to give you a flavour of the rapid and exciting pace of the Glascairn Project and our working with Tulloch Homes and Cairn Housing. We have had a number of meetings and we are in regular correspondence with Tullochs and Cairn as well as a number of other people who are involved in this development. It has been a real eye-opener for many of us to see the detailed work that is necessary to bring a project like this to the point where it is ready to start on site. 

In tandem with this, CCT are working in a similar way to bring our own vision for the Community part of the site to fruition. As I said above, this is a very exciting time, to be involved with CCT. We are really seeing tangible progress with our project and realising the benefit of all the background work that has brought us this far. We have now appointed LDN Architects, who will be working closely with our Landscape Architects, Horner & MacLennan. We will be working with both of these companies to develop our ideas for the CCT development and look forward to being able to update you on further progress soon.

If you want to know more, or if you want to get involved with the project in more detail, please get in touch. Alternatively come along to the Market and speak to us there, or why not make a date to come to our AGM on 11th November (details below).

Best wishes
Richard Fyfe
CCT Chair

Fundraising Activities

An Evening With Sir John Lister-Kaye

Tickets are selling fast for the Evening with Sir John Lister-Kaye to be held at Findon Hall on Saturday 5th October (7 for 7.30pm) so make sure you get your tickets now.  John Lister-Kaye is a highly acclaimed naturalist and writer and runs the Aigas Field Centre near Beauly. Tickets are available from the Spar shop (£10, £5 for under 18s) or by emailing event@culbokiect.org.  BYOB, with tea/coffee and home baking in the interval.  We hope to see many of you at what promises to be a really engaging evening.

Quiz Night

CCT will be running a Quiz Night on Saturday 9 November in Findon Hall, 7 for 7.30.  Book your table at event@culbokiect.org - £20 for a team of four or ask to be matched up with others to form a team.  An evening designed to include questions for everyone!  BYOB; tea, coffee and baking on sale.
 
Culbokie Community Market
This month’s market is on Saturday 21st September in Findon Hall from 10.00 to 12.30. There will be the usual wide range of quality local food products, produce and crafts. The café, with soup lunches and teas and cakes, will be provided by Girl Guiding Ross-shire so come along for your local goods, browse and have a chat.
The next market on Saturday 19th October will include apple pressing.  Please bring your washed apples and bottles. Make it a date and we hope to see you there.
 
Culbokie Community Trust AGM and Talk by NHS Highland
CCT would like to invite members and non-members to the 3rd AGM on Monday 11th November at 7pm in Findon Hall. The short AGM will be followed by a talk by Iain Stewart, Chief Executive and Professor Hugo Van Woerden, Director of Public Health and Health Policy at NHS Highland. Iain and Hugo will tell us about NHS Highland and how local communities can engage to improve health outcomes.
Refreshments will be served.
 

Active travel route 

At the time of writing, we are close to appointing consultants to produce the feasibility study, option appraisal and initial designs for the active travel route through the village. It’s been interesting reading the bids for the work, and looking at some of the ideas that have worked elsewhere. We can’t say a great deal more just now, but by the time next month’s newsletter comes out we should have some tangible progress to report.
 
CCT Adopts Environment Policy
With global attention now on the pressing issues of climate change and environmental degradation, CCT has adopted a new environmental policy which will help inform all our activities. This can be viewed on the CCT web site. CCT Environmental Policy

Keep in touch by following us on Twitter

CCT is now Tweeting developments at Glascairn as they happen. Keep up to date by following us or searching the hashtag #Glascairn.
 
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