Category Archives: Projects

Are You Ready? Update

Posted on March 14, 2013 by admin

Today Charles and Sara attended the follow up workshop in Edinburgh, building on the very successful Are You Ready? pilot at Colintraive Village Hall in February. For more information on the project, and the very successful day of resilience imagineering … Continue reading →

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Afforestations of Delight

Posted on February 22, 2013 by admin

Colintraive and Glendaruel Development Trust (CGDT) have purchased Stronafian Forest and are now recruiting for a dynamic Community Forest Development Officer.  CGDT are delighted to confirm that they have now purchased Stronafian Forest on the Cowal Peninsula, Argyll. The forest, … Continue reading →

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Are We Ready? Looks like it!

Posted on February 11, 2013 by admin

Alan Caldwell brought the Are You Ready? project to Colintraive Village Hall this evening. With 17 residents, Sara led an interesting and lively session looking at how we can be ready for the increasingly turbulent weather that climate change is … Continue reading →

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Updated Stronafian Business Plan Available

Posted on December 5, 2012 by admin

For those of you keeping an eye on our developing plans for Stronafian, we have just published the updated Business Plan on our publications page.

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The Next Stage of the Glendaruel Working Group

Posted on February 24, 2012 by admin

At the last meeting of the working group we spent two hours poring over the decision matrix we had developed in the previous session. With Donald’s ongoing and able help we were able to develop some ideas about the types … Continue reading →

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Of Hall, Hotel and Hub: an Ongoing Discussion

Posted on January 8, 2012 by admin

One of the ongoing discussions we have been engaged in is seeing a way forward for Glendaruel what with the CRtB on the Hotel, the initial plans drawn up by the Hub Group and the ongoing progress the Village Hall … Continue reading →

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Investing in Ideas Invests in Us!

Posted on September 29, 2011 by admin

We’re delighted to announce that we have received approval for our application to the Investing in Ideas programme for developing our plans on the Old Shop in Colintraive. Structural and architectural assessments will be made prior to the trust and … Continue reading →

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Of Hubs, Hydro and Ships-to-Shore

Posted on September 27, 2011 by admin

A quick digest on some of the projects which we are working on at the moment: The group looking at the Clachan pavilion or hub on the eastern end of the shinty pitch have recently received from the architect the … Continue reading →

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Proposed Land Use Areas

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Russell

 The board met on Monday 22nd August to populate a map of Stronafian with initial proposals for where certain activities could be located in the forest.  This will be passed onto our forest consultant for his comments. You can … Continue reading →

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A Community Working Together

Posted on August 26, 2011 by admin

Over the last weeks there has been an unprecedented level of activity in the community looking at our future and the projects we might like to take forward. The ‘Ship-to-shore’ and the ‘Colintraive Gateway’ steering groups have met and made … Continue reading →

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