Glenuig Community Association News
This news page is about the Glenuig community - more news of forthcoming events in Glenuig Hall can be found on our What's On Calendar page.
11 October 2024October 2024 News
We are having a wee hiatus in Glenuig Hall while the Community Association and the Glenuig Arts Group continue our longer term planning. We are hopeful of hosting one or two more events in the hall this calendar year but as yet have no confirmed dates.
As a community we are excited by the formation and progress of Glenuig Community Inn Committee, set up with the aim to make community ownership of Glenuig Inn a reality, retaining it at the heart of the community. The current owner and manager Rona Yard has done an excellent job of bringing the Inn back to its former status and is fully supportive and encouraging of the new community ownership proposal. The group have a new Facebook page for discussion on the proposal, have a website in development, and plans for a consultation with the wider community in the near future. Readers of De tha Dol? will be hearing more in due course.
This continues the development of an already very active community. We have Glenuig Community Association, which owns and manages Glenuig Hall and promotes other initiatives within the community, Glenuig Arts Group which has taken on promoting an arts programme in the hall, Glenuig Shop in the centre of the village, Glenuignet providing broadband services to the community, Moidart History Group (Comann Eachdraidh Muideart) and the Moidart Coastal Rowing Club. All these are separate entities with their own legal and management structures. All are run by volunteers drawn mainly from the small communities of Glenuig and Roshven, and while there is some crossover many of the activists focus on their own particular interests, leading to a varied and very busy community life. Information on all the groups can be found online through any reliable search engine.
We look forward to letting you know more about progress and coming events next month.
Eoghan Carmichael
Full details of events in Glenuig Hall can be found on our website GLENUIG.ORG.UK or follow our various social media links.
Contact Eoghan Carmichael on 01687 470267 or email GlenuigHall@Glenuig.org.uk
02 December 2023Glenuig Inn Community Buy-Out Meeting
Meeting at Glenuig hall on the 13th Of December at 7pm to discuss the prospect of a community buyout and gauge the interest locally. If this is something you might support, please, pop along!
Calling all residents of the PH38 postcode!
Please join us to discuss whether a Community Buy-Out strategy could be an option for our beloved Glenuig Inn in light of it being due to go on the open market in early 2024.
We’d like to establish if there is enough local engagement and support to move this idea forward with the Scottish Land Fund and other relevant organisations.
This is for anyone who has concerns about the future of Glenuig Inn.
This could be our best chance to protect its ownership and preserve the current ethos which we have all grown to enjoy once more.
21 November 2023Winter Events 2023/24
Our new Arts Group programme is proving a great success and we have more coming up ,over December and January.
Our Thursday evening singing group, led by Rosie Gillespie will meet up on 7th and 14th December and then start up again after Christmas on Thursday 18th January. Come and join us in Glenuig Hall for our weekly song sessions; the focus is on singing for fun and well-being and everyone is welcome to join in, whatever your age, level of experience or confidence.
In the New Year, we’ll have a few guest tutors to lead some special singing workshops and, after the success of Margaret Ford’s Gaelic song workshop last month, we’re hoping she’ll come again to share more tongue-twisting puirt à beul.
Each Thursday session will start at 7.30pm and will cost only £5 to take part.
WINTER COMMUNITY LUNCHES
The second of our community pot-luck lunches in Glenuig Hall will take place on Saturday 9th December. Come along and meet your neighbours over a relaxed lunch-time, in a nice warm welcoming village hall between 12.30 and 2.30pm. A few seasonal festive treats are likely to be on offer and there will be live music, kindly provided by some of our local young musicians.
This is a free event and tasty hot soup will be provided, as well as tea and coffee, but in the spirit of pot-luck, you might want to bring along a contribution of food to share as well as any refreshments you might like.
In the New Year, the date of our next community lunch is Saturday 13th January.
As part of our Awards for All funded arts programme for Glenuig Hall, we can now announce the dates of two events for early 2024:
Saturday 10th February – A family tea dance with the Great Glen Swing Band
Saturday 23rd March – A pot-luck dinner dance with the Glenfinnan Ceilidh Band
For more information and updates, check our social media links:
FACEBOOK or INSTAGRAM: glenuighallarts