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New Board of Directors Elects Office Bearers and Calls for Ideas from the Community

On Thursday 14th January the new board of directors of the Development Trust met for the first time this session.

One of the things the directors are keen to get started on developing is a new work stream for the next period. We are in the process of looking at projects that can be developed for the benefit of the community. We have a few projects that have been suggested by the Resilience group and others but we are keen to hear about projects that you would like us to investigate and try to develop on behalf of the community. The board will then investigate them, make a list with information and distribute to the membership for consideration.

New Board Members:
Paul Bulmer,
Garry Kirby,
Calum Maclean,
Ros McGhee and
John Allan (Co-opted)
Graham Curran (Co-opted)


Retiring Directors:
Alex MacNaughton,
Colin Boyd and
Jim McLuckie

The board wish to thank Alex, Colin and Jim for all the hard work and dedication they have shown over the years. They have done a lot for our community and we have much to thank them for.

At the first meeting of the new board the following office bearers were selected:

  • Chair Cathleen Russell
  • Vice Chair Harry Andrews
  • Secretary Paul Bulmer
  • Treasurer Calum Maclean
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Forestry Working Group Call for Volunteers!

CGDT Working Group are planning to carry out work over 2 or 3 weekends, starting on Saturday 28 & 29th November, the 5th & 6th December & 12th & 13th December.

Dates and times will be confirmed once interest is known. Work includes:

  • Small tree cutting & Limbing
  • Drainage work / digging
  • Sculpture varnishing / maintenance
  • Brush cutting
  • Signage checking

All the work will be getting carried out in the Stronafian area and you can do as much or as little as you are able, so if you fancy a bit of varnishing, Strimming, or walking the Route to check the Signage etc, that would be helpful

If you would like to get involved, and are available for any of the 3 weekends that have been highlighted, please call Charlie 07821914021 or email charlie@cgdt.org.

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ColGlen Resilience Newsletter Issue 5.

Here’s our latest issue – all about Shortening the Winter for residents in Colintraive and Glendaruel. We hope to see lots of entries for the various competitions!

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ColGlen Resilience Newsletter Issue 4: Looking in the Mirror

Community Council Chair, Cathleen Russell reflects on the community response to COVID-19, how we have been helped by businesses and individuals alike, and what the next months hold for our community as we move into the colder months.

In this Issue:

Update from the Resilience Group Contact list Prescription Deliveries Food Deliveries Other help on offer

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Resilience Group Newsletter No. 3

SUPPORTING COLGLEN’S LOCAL ECONOMY

As the Lockdown extends into late June and looks like continuing until Autumn, the Resilience Group is looking at ways of supporting the local economy, particularly for those who are self-employed or dependent on the tourism industry.

In this Issue

Jobs Exchange • ColGlen Quiz Night • Venison available for all households

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ColGlen Resilience Newsletter Issue 2

The Resilience Group volunteers will be delivering our second resilience newsletter to the community in the next few days.

This issue includes:

  • Updates on Deliveries and the Group’s Activities
  • Invite to Thursday night Quiz next Thursday night.
  • Details on claiming a food box
  • News on community coronavirus response including activities for younger members of the community

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ColGlen Resilience Group Receives Funding for Covid-19 Response

We welcome the news confirming that the ColGlen Resilience Group, through the Colintraive & Glendaruel Development Trust acting as anchor organisation, has secured funding from the Scottish Government, via Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE), to support the communities of Colintraive and Glendaruel during the COVID-19 crisis, from the Supporting Communities Fund.

HIE is distributing the Supporting Communities Fund in the Highlands and Islands, on behalf of the Scottish Government, for all eligible community anchor organisations, who play an active role in providing services within communities across the region.

Through this funding we are being supported to deliver our community’s response to the COVID-19 emergency.

Next week, we will be distributing the first food boxes enabled by this funding as well as the ColGlen Resilience Newsletter – which can be downloaded here as well.

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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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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.