Categories
Colintraive Glendaruel News Press & Publicity Projects

EGM on Sunday CANCELLED

The Board of the Development Trust has taken the decision to postpone the EGM scheduled for Sunday, 23rd August 2020.

This decision has been made as a result of an email sent to the chair threatening the trust with an interdict to prevent any meeting in any form until matters the complanant is unhappy with are resolved by a court.

The board has not done anything which justifies this action.

However, the board has concluded that the trust should not pay legal fees to ensure that it is notified if and when an interdict is granted. Therefore, taking a precautionary stance, we will no longer convene any meetings, including next Sunday’s EGM in case an interdict has been granted.

The full text of our notification to the members of the trust is available below.

Categories
News

Staying Safe Advice for Visitors and Accommodation Providers to and in Colintraive & Glendaruel

The Resilience Group has been working hard over the last week to draft guidance for visitors and accommodation providers, and this leaflet is the result. We will also be publishing a poster, which the community will see out and about over the next week or so.

If you would like a copy of this leaflet for your visitors, please contact the resilience group on all the usual numbers!!

Categories
Glendaruel News Projects Resilience Stronafian Working Groups

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

Categories
Colintraive Glendaruel Ideas News Press & Publicity Projects Resilience Working Groups

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

Categories
Colintraive Environment Glendaruel Ideas News Opportunities Press & Publicity Resilience Working Groups

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.

Categories
Clachan Colintraive Glendaruel Ideas News Resilience Working Groups

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.

Categories
Colintraive Glendaruel News Resilience

Covid-19 & the Development Trust

The directors of CGDT have cancelled all open and closed meetings until further notice to protect directors, staff, members and the wider community. We have notified trust members accordingly. We hope everyone has the support they need during this challenging time, and those of us that can will be volunteering with the resilience group.

If you have any queries or would like support from the Trust, please email us at cgdt@cgdt.org or via the contact form here.

Categories
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:

Categories
Clachan Colintraive Environment Glendaruel News Resilience Working Groups

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:

Categories
Archaeology Glendaruel Greener ColGlen News Opportunities Press & Publicity Projects Renewables Resilience Stronafian Warmer Colglen

Winter Newsletter for Download

Issued before Christmas, the newsletter has all the essentials for the communities of Colintraive and Glendaruel. This time the focus was on resilience.