Aird Community

Highland Council is operating a pilot garden waste collection service for householders. More information can be found here.

Moniack Mhor Writers’ Centre, located just outside Abriachan, has been selected to become a Beechgrove Community Garden in 2013. This means that, once the work is finished, the Centre will have fully accessible grounds with features like a Gaelic tree alphabet, extensive herb garden and a roundtable crafted from Caithness slate. It also means that […]

KBCT assisted Kirkhill Primary School in organising a cycling event alongside the Village market on Saturday 18th May. Local cycling organisation ‘Velocity’ provided a mobile cycling workshop where Penny and Ferga gave a maintenance check to bikes belonging to pupils and adults and gave advice to the youngsters on how to maintain their own bikes […]

The community recycling facility now operates at the community centre with containers for collecting glass and fabrics. Through our blue bin collections, we all have the opportunity to recycle paper and cans at our own doorstep. Latest figures from Highland Council show that between April and December last year local residents deposited over 21 tonnes […]

On Saturday 27th October members supported the Kirkhill Village Market by running a car wash in the school playground. Several members took the opportunity to have their own cars cleaned as did those attending the market. Many thanks to Aileen and Ian who helped and to Calum Stout who helped, even though he is now […]

In March 2012 the membership of Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust agreed that the Trust should apply to the Office of the  Scottish Charity Regulator to convert its legal status from a Company Limited by Guarantee to a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Institution (SCIO). This application was approved on 21  August 2012. The change of status reduces the […]