Aird Community

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 […]

Kirkhill and Bunchrew Community Trust Woodland Group held a very successful wood carving workshop at Upper Reelig Community Wood on the 23rd and 24th of February. Led by trainer Henry Fosbrooke members of the community learnt techniques to carve wood and made some fabulous carvings over the weekend. The workshop was funded by the Forestry […]

Learn woodcarving skills and techniques at this free wood carving course Course postponed to February/March 2013  A woodcarving course will be held on the weekend at Upper Reelig wood in spring next year. You’ll be learning woodcarving skills and techniques and working on carvings for the woodland and community centre. Ideas so far include signs and a totem pole […]

The Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund has awarded £53, 476 to the KDAA towards insulation and energy efficiency measures in the community centre as part of the Kirkhill Centre Forward refurbishment and extension project. The Climate Challenge Fund is all about supporting communities to tackle climate change by reducing their carbon emissions. Further details of […]