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