Skyecomuseum

WORK on installing a new safety feature on the road leading to the new Lealt platform car park will be carried out next week.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) closed the access road to the new car park in Lealt in February after freezing temperatures and icy surfaces prompted safety concerns.
The height barrier was lowered to to stop vehicles attempting to drive up the track, skid on the frozen surface, and potentially go through the stock fence. ...

MAJOR restoration work on a historic and popular route in Staffin has been completed.
The upgrade of the badly eroded Flodigarry to Quiraing footpath, by Loch Langaig, was carried out by a team of path contractors from the Isle of Arran.
It was originally an old cart track used by crofters to collect their peats and is still used to gather sheep from the hill grazings. However, the path surface had badly deteriorated in recent years through blocked ditches, ...

A STAFFIN B&B is the 16th local business to join Staffin Community Trust’s online directory.
Cruachan, in Glasphein, which is run by Wilma Toner, is open all year around and offers great accommodation and tremendous views across Staffin Bay. Read more, here: https://staffin-trust.co.uk/accommodation-3
Cruachan B&B, Glasphein.
The SCT want to help promote all the businesses in the community and boost the local economy by promoting them online via its popular website and social media.
For an annual £20 ...

A GROUP of determined coach drivers and office workers have completed badly-needed repairs on a 19th century lifeline route in north Skye.
For the fourth time in under two years, staff from Rabbie’s Trail Burners have teamed up with Staffin Community Trust (SCT) up to carry out significant repairs to key local footpaths. 
Eight volunteers from the company spent two days at the path to Staffin Slipway digging out new and improved drainage and resurfacing after water and thick ...

FREEZING temperatures and ice has prompted the access road to a new car park in Staffin to be temporarily closed.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) has lowered the height barrier at the foot of the road to its new upper car park at Lealt Gorge. The safety measure was implemented in order to stop vehicles attempting to drive up the track and potentially skid on the frozen surface.
The lowered height barrier at Lealt.
SCT apologies for any inconvenience. The existing ...

DOG owners are being reminded of their responsibilities when walking near livestock in Staffin.
There have been recent worrying incidents in the Brogaig area which has seen terrified sheep end up in ditches after dogs have been let off their leads to roam.
A worried local crofter highlighted his concerns to the Staffin Community Trust after recently speaking to two different dog owners asking them to keep their pets on leads when walking in the Brogaig common grazing area ...

WORK on two new path projects is now underway in Staffin, as the latest phase in the Skye Ecomuseum heritage development.
Following a competitive tendering process, Staffin Community Trust (SCT) has awarded contracts in Flodigarry and Grealin to Highlands and islands’ firms. Arran Footpaths Ltd, which recently completed a major contract at Glen Sligachan, for the John Muir Trust, this week started the upgrade of the popular Flodigary to Quiraing footpath, by Loch Langaig.
And the Aviemore ...

A pictorial look back at the work and progress made in Staffin Community Trust’s projects in the last 12 months…
The board of directors and staff would like to thank everyone in the community and elsewhere who have supported – directly or indirectly – SCT’s projects. Without the goodwill and time provided by Staffin people it would be very difficult for the projects to be delivered. SCT looks forward to an equally productive 2019 working for the community.  
JANUARY: Test pits dug were dug at Lealt gorge by Ian MacDonald, of Staffin Groundworks, for the new viewing platform, which was a key part of the Skye Ecomuseum capitalworks.
FEBRUARY: SCT’s Angus Murray, Highland Council’s ...

CONSTRUCTION work on Staffin’s long-awaited housing, health and business development could commence in the summer of 2019.
A total of seven affordable houses, a new medical surgery and business space will be built on Stenscholl common grazings, close to the primary school.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) is hopeful that the legal process currently underway to purchase the site and remove it from crofting tenure will be completed and the land in its ownership early in the new year.
Highland Council granted planning permission last March and the Scottish Land Fund ...