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Community Food Supply Service

Colintraive and Glendaruel Community Council writes

In order to help the community access a stable and regular supply of food and supplies, we are now working with a number of local suppliers to provide a food delivery/collection service that will allow members of the community to receive food deliveries at home and avoid the need to travel to Dunoon, Rothesay or Tighnabruaich. Such shopping trips are costly, time consuming and, most importantly, expose members of our community to potential infection. The following food delivery/collection services will be available

Fynest Fish Robert will continue to deliver to the community as long as he has supply. Robert can be contacted on 07880 718000. This should provide a good source of fresh fish and vegetables. 

Shellfield Farm Within the next few weeks, Nikki & Fraser will be launching a range of homemade farm2fork frozen ready meals for safe home delivery to your doorstep. These will be sold as single or 2 person portions with prices starting at £5.50 and £8.50.  Initial recipes will be Beef Bourguignon, Cottage Pie, Veggie Shepherds Pie and Fish Pie, with more to be added in the future.  Pease contact on 07799 137779 or shellfieldfarm@outlook.com to join their mailing list; follow their social media pages/ website for up to date info on launch date, offers and pricing

Colintraive Hotel Clare has offered to take orders from the community and place them with her suppliers. Orders can be collected from the hotel at a pre-arranged time slot or delivered to your door. Orders placed by 5pm Sunday will be ready for collection/delivery on the following Friday. To place an order, please call Clare on 01700 841207. To make the process as efficient and cost effective as possible, only one brand of each product will be available, depending on supply chain capacity. New items will be added over the next few weeks. We have attached an order form which can be used to order over the phone. An online ordering form will be available soon. Clare can also order meat from McQueens in Rothesay and venison from Winston Churchill to avoid multiple delivery charges

Nikki and Clare have both offered to set up accounts to make payment easier as we would like to avoid the use of cash for safety reasons. Payment can be made over the phone or by bank transfer.

Our aim in setting up this arrangement is twofold. Firstly, we feel it is vital that the community has a secure, safe and cost effective supply of food and groceries for the next few weeks and months. Secondly, it is important that we support our local businesses. We feel that this initiative helps achieve both.

If you have prescriptions that need to be collected, let us know and we can co-ordinate pickup and drop off. Tighnabruaich surgery prescriptions will be delivered.

If you have any questions about this service please contact one of our Community Resilience Volunteers.

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Clachan Colintraive Environment Glendaruel Ideas News Opportunities Projects Resilience

Resilience Survey in Colintraive and Glendaruel

Many of residents in ColGlen will have received a paper version of this survey in the Spring 2020 newsletter. For those who need more copies or who haven’t received the survey, please find the downloadable and printable PDF below:

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Covid-19 & ColGlen

The following message is from our Resilience Committee / Community Council Chair. CGDT has announced the cancellation of all open and closed meetings until further notice, see here.

Dear Community Member,

The next few weeks/months will be difficult for the country as Covid-19 spreads. Both the UK and Scottish Governments are putting things in place to try and slow down the spread but we as a community can also help to slow the spread down by helping those who fall ill, have to self-isolate or are vulnerable.

If you or a family member show symptoms and have to self isolate or if you are vulnerable we can help. Contact one of the numbers below and one of our volunteers will help you by:

• Collecting and delivering your shopping to your door
• Collecting and delivering medicines
• Chatting to you on the phone
• Urgent supplies

Something everyone can do:

• Phone your immediate neighbours every couple of days to check they are okay.

As the virus spreads people will become more isolated and it is important that we keep in contact and look after each other.

To get a volunteer to contact you phone our volunteers as per the attached PDF below:

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Sale of Solum Meeting Update

After the very well-attended meeting on the 3rd October (Minutes available in Minutes & Other Essentials) the community decided in a vote on the evening to not proceed with the sale of the Solum.

Outcomes from and feedback on the meeting were:

  • Inform the forest tenant that the community has declined the offer made on the Solum of the parts of the forest under commercial lease. Notification was acknowledged by the tenant on Monday 7th.
  • Set a new date for the trust’s AGM. This has now been agreed by the board and booked for 2pm on 15th December in Colintraive Village Hall. Official notifications will be sent out in due course.
  • Begin Open board meetings. This has been agreed by the board and the first open meeting will be on Thursday, 14th November at 7.30pm in Colintraive Village Hall. All are welcome.

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CGDT AGM & Consultation on Sale of Solum

The Development Trust will hold its Annual General Meeting on the 3rd of October, at 7.30pm. The venue will be the Glendaruel Village Hall, and all are welcome. Membership of the trust will be taken on the night, and all residents of the community can join. Those who holiday or own second homes in the ColGlen can become associate, non-voting members.

As part of the evening, and after the business of the AGM has been concluded, the Trust will be leading a discussion of the offer of purchase the community forest tenants have made for the solum of the leased commercial timber.

More details are available here:

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Spring Community NewsLetter for Download

With 500 copies distributed to the community and local businesses, we’ve now generated a downloadable version.

Cover page | Back page

Included in this issue is news from the community council, the development trust, the church, our wildswimmers and the ColGlen chorus, to name but a few.

We are looking to update the map for the Summer issue, including more businesses and useful information, as well as adverts. We have 5 takers for the ad spaces so far and only another 4 are available – get yours by contacting the newsletter group through cgdt@cgdt.org

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Community Newsletter Now Out!

IMG_2214News, Information, Map and Walks for community and visitors has been published this week. Designed to inform locals, market the community and provide essential information this quarterly publication is already looking for ideas for articles for the next (Summer) issue.

This quarter’s issue includes news from the community council, development trust, ColGlen growers, the Heritage Centre, ColGlen Chorus and much more!

If you haven’t received a copy, or have an idea for an article, please let us know!

 

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Clachan Hub Consultation: Draft Design

screenshot-2016-10-07-at-13-01-00On Wednesday 5th October, CGDT convened our 8th community consultation meeting to discuss the Clachan Hub. While we reported on progress towards the funding application, the main business of the meeting was to consider the draft plans from our architects INCH. To that end, and to continue the dialogue regarding the building, and also, because of technical difficulties in presenting the full treatment at the meeting, CGDT are publishing INCH’s presentation here now.

The document begins with the general design treatment, how it sits in the landscape, and its appearance. It then moves onto exemplars of various kinds around materials, shape and construction. Finally, the presentation discusses the internal layout.

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While CGDT is very happy with the general concept, because it embodies all the feedback we have had from the community from our previous 7 meetings, the details are still very much in discussion, particularly the location of the bar / servery area in Building 01 and the access to the changing rooms in Building 02. We would welcome any comment, positive or negative, as well as thoughts on layout and structure. And of course if you have questions, please don’t hesitate!

Here’s the PDF of the entire document, please click to download –> 122-cgdt-hub-initial-proposals-b4

All feedback to cgdt@cgdt.org

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Clachan Hub Project: Community Meeting 3

At the Glendaruel Hall on Saturday 16th Jan, 11 am!

The appraisal of the potential sites is now complete and we will score the options against how they meet our criteria.

Our meeting will be facilitated by the consultants – the Design Team and Business planning team, who look forward to meeting everyone.

Clachan Hub meeting notes

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Kyles Community Broadband Public Meetings

If you live in Colintraive & Glendaruel, Kilfinan or Bute Community Council areas, and you aren’t within 1 km of a BT Next Generation Enabled telephone exchange, this is for you:

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