Author: SH

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Now that spring is on the way you should try out the newly upgraded path from Altnacardich to Kirkton Muir. You can park at the top of Newtonhill and take the track to the east towards Inverness.

Work was completed recently to fill in the large puddles (known locally as The Great Lakes!) to create a fantastic dry walk linking the west of the hillside (Newtonhill, Reelig and Cabrich) to the east (Kirkton, Englishton and Bunchrew) whilst avoiding the A862.

The route is perfect for walkers, runners, cyclists and horses and opens up access to a network of good quality adjacent woodland tracks.

The upgrade was made possible with the permission of the landowner and a generous Active Travel Grant from Paths for All and Transport Scotland.

Much of the preparation work was performed by willing volunteers from the Paths and Woodland groups of the Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust. The groundworks were completed by a local contractor, Amac.

We would be most grateful for feedback from users in the form of short comments or brief testimonials below or on the Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community facebook page. Comments will be used to report back to Paths for All and will help to support future funding opportunities.

We are always looking for volunteers to join our growing group to help create, improve and maintain the various paths in the area. If you are interested contact Donald Shiach on dshiach@hotmail.com.

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The Kirkhill and Bunchrew area (including Cabrich and Clunes) currently has two main, volunteer led community organisations:

• Kirkhill Community Centre (KCC) provides a well-used community hall, meeting room and associated sports facilities in Kirkhill.  It was established in 1978 as Kirkhill and District Amenities Association (KDAA). 
• Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust (KBCT), established in 1999,  is a community anchor organisation enabling a wide range of community development activities. Current projects include managing Upper Reelig Community Wood, Kirkhill play-park, developing sections of the Beauly to Inverness shared use path, maintaining local paths, running a community café and providing Christmas lights. 

Both organisations are Scottish Charity Incorporated Organisations (The KCC is SC012797 and KBCT SC029389).

In order to better serve the local community and to increase efficiency, the possibility of merging the two organisations is being considered. The merged organisation will be known as Aird Community Trust (ACT).

This Question and Answer document aims to answer immediate queries. This is the draft constitution for Aird Community Trust.

A resolution to change the name of the organisation to Aird Community Trust, to adopt the amended constitution and to accept the assets of Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust will be considered at the Annual General Meeting of Kirkhill Community Centre at 19:30 on 7 March 2020.

A resolution to transfer all assets to Aird Commuity Trust and to wind up Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust will be considered at a Special General Meeting of Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust at 19:30 on 16 March 2020.

Thank you,

Mary Andrews (KBCT Chair) & Erik Lundberg (KCC Chair).

The Trustees of Kirkhill Community Centre are sad to note that our former trustee Wilma Williamson has passed away. Wilma was a stalwart of the centre since it was built in 1987, largely through the efforts of her and her husband Norman.

Wilma always took a keen interest in the running of the centre and would often walk to and from the centre to open it up and back again, sometimes late in the evening, to check it had been left tidy after an event and lock up. Wobetide anyone who had not left it up to her exacting standards of tidiness! She also attended and helped to organise many events in the centre including the annual Craft Fayre.

Wilma sat on the Kirkhill and District Amenities Association committee for many years and continued as a trustee of the current Kirkhill Community Centre SCIO. Her main role was to record bookings and issue invoices to our users and I recall spending evenings in her house taking notes of the bookings when we first started to list them on a booking calendar.

Wilma was a familiar site in the village often seen walking to and from the centre in all weathers until quite recently when her health was failing. She gave a huge amount of time and effort to making the centre run smoothly for the benefit of our community and will be sorely missed.

The funeral service will be held in Wardlaw Church on Friday 11^th October at 12 noon with refreshments after the internment at Wardlaw Graveyard in the community centre.

Erik Lundberg

Chair, Kirkhill Community Centre