Skyecomuseum

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 ...

A NEW director has joined Staffin Community Trust (SCT)  to help progress its projects, ahead of an important year ahead.
Calum MacDonald, who was raised in Stenscholl, will now serve on the development trust’s board. 
Having a committed board of directors with a range of skills and backgrounds is vital for the SCT because specific projects – like the affordable housing, health and business development – are fast approaching the delivery phase in 2019.
The SCT directors all have their own ...

SERVICES at Staffin’s two war memorials will take place this weekend to remember those who paid the ultimate sacrifice, 100 years after the First World War ended.
Two services will be held in the district. The first one starts at the Culnacnoc War Memorial at 2.30pm where wreaths will be laid and a two-minute silence observed. The second service will take place at 3pm at the Staffin War Memorial. Everybody is welcome.
Remembrance Sunday Services Poster 
The memorials remember those lost their lives in the two world ...

TWO new donation boxes have been placed at the new Staffin viewing platform to help meet the development’s running costs. 
Staffin Community Trust opened the platform, new footpaths and a car park at Lealt gorge in August, as part of its Skye Ecomuseum development. Feedback to the year-round attraction has been overwhelmingly supportive and SCT is now working to install new interpretation signage illustrating the industrial story of Lealt, and the other crofting townships in Staffin, across all its ecomuseum sites. ...

THE STAFFIN community and visitors are warmly invited to offer their views on the proposals for upgraded signage for the Skye Ecomuseum over the next two days.
Design firm, Lateral North, will be on hand with Staffin Community Trust to show the plans for the ecomuseum.
The ecomuseum is an outdoor museum with ‘no walls and a roofless sky’ and includes a footpath network across the district. Interpretation illustrates the story of each area in the district and focuses on the heritage ...

A NEW viewing platform and parking area at Lealt gorge in Staffin will be officially opened tomorrow (Thursday) in a community event.
The community and wider public are warmly invited to the opening at 11.30am on October 4th.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT)’s contractors completed the development earlier this year, as part of the newly re-branded Skye Ecomuseum project, which will now also carry the name, Druim nan Linntean.
The structure is the first of its type in Skye and the community-led development ...

STAFFIN Community Trust (SCT) will hold its 2018 AGM this week.
SCT has had another busy year progressing its various projects and an update will be provided on all aspects of its work.


There will also be an opportunity for anybody join the SCT board of directors and for any local residents keen on becoming members. The SCT membership now stands at more than 100 people.
Being a SCT member does not involve a requirement to attend ...

A NEW TV series featuring a raft of local people from Trotternish is broadcast tonight (Tuesday) on BBC Alba.
‘An t-Eilean/From Skye With Love’ is the latest in a popular series which has followed the lives of Gaels across the West Highlands and Islands. Well kent faces from Staffin will be on screen in the seven-part series which starts at 8.30pm.
The production company who followed the lives of residents going about their daily lives in the peninsula for more than ...

FOOTPATH contractors in Skye and across Scotland have been invited to tender for the next phase in the Skye Ecomuseum capitalworks in Staffin.
Following the construction of the viewing platform and new upper car park at Lealt, Staffin Community Trust (SCT) is turning its attention to the second stage of construction works for the heritage project.
SCT has commenced a competitive tendering process, which will run until September 28, and invited several path contractors to bid for two new contracts in Staffin. As part of the ecomuseum project, the Flodigarry path route to ...

A MUCH-needed affordable housing, health and business development in Staffin has taken a major step forward after securing a significant government grant.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) is delighted to confirm that it has been awarded £231,700 from the Scottish Land Fund. It comes after full planning permission was secured from Highland Council for the development, near Staffin Primary School, earlier this year.
SCT is working in partnership with the Highlands Small Communities Housing Trust and Lochalsh and Skye Housing Association to ...