Glenuig Community Association
Facts & Figures | |
Organisation Name: | Glenuig Community Association |
Individual Name: | |
Area Served: | The village of Glenuig and surrounding settlements |
Population: | 50 approx. |
Sketch: | The commitment of local people to music and culture led during 1980s to, first, the Glenuig Music Festival, and then the establishment of the Glenuig Community Association. The Association has now delivered the purpose-built Glenuig Hall to house its extensive arts programme and other community’s activities. It’s now branching out into other social enterprises, and using its activities and the income generated to invest in the community’s future. |
Legal Form: | Company Ltd by Guarantee and a Scottish Charity |
Volunteers: | 9 |
People Benefitting: | The whole community |
Staff: | -- |
Turnover: | 24K (2015) |
Earned Income: | 75% earned |
Assets: | Glenuig Hall |
Value of assets: | 250K approx. |
Roots & Links | |
Origins: | Local people started organising gigs over 30 years ago, using the old school room in the village and other local venues in Lochailort and Fort William. In 1983 the first Glenuig Games and Music Festival was held in a marquee. Almost as an afterthought the organising committee decided to build their own venue and the Festival, which ran until 1993, became not simply good craic but a crucial source of fundraising for the Hall. The Glenuig Village Hall Committee was formed in 1982, becoming in 1985 the Glenuig Community Association. The Glenuig Hall was opened in 1995. |
Governance: | A Management Committee of 7-8 people, a local membership, and a Memorandum of Articles that focuses on the following community benefits: |
Community Links: | Many: |
External Links: | Regionally and Nationally: |
Activities | |
Physical Hub: | The Glenuig Hall acts as a hub providing space for: |
Builds Local Capacity: | Through: |
Delivers Services: | The Association also supports a team of volunteers in running the existing local shop/ post office, which forms a social hub as well as providing services. |
Develops/Manages Property: | Glenuig Hall. |
Other: | -- |
Main Achievements: | 1. Glenuig Hall - having built the Hall and now run it as a viable business for over 20 years it has been hugely successful and allowed us to invest in other activities to support our community. 2. The Glenuig Music Festival: this was one of the first such festivals in the Highlands, Scotland even. It ran for ten years (83-93) and effectively continues through a year-round arts programme that includes a tremendous range and quality of events. This has a substantial knock-on effect for the wider community, bringing in people to stay for a whole weekend perhaps, and so supporting local accommodation providers and other local services. |
What Next | |
Biggest Challenge: | |
Lessons Learned: | Empowering local people: the whole community has become empowered through its work running the Music Festival, building the Hall and running it and the arts programme. We’ve all learnt skills and knowledge and gained the confidence to move on to new challenges. |
Aspirations: | Looking to our future: We’re a small community. We work well together and we move forward gradually … but to ensure the long-term viability of the Association and the community, we need to encourage young people to stay in the area and pick-up the reins as ‘the oldies drop by the wayside’. |
Contact | |
Name: | Eoghan Carmichael |
Title: | Administrative & Artistic Director |
Address Line 1: | Glenuig Hall, Glenuig |
Address Line 2: | Lochailort |
City: | -- |
County: | Inverness-shire, PH38 4NG |
Telephone: | 01687-470267 |
Fax: | As phone |
Email: | GCA@glenuig.org.uk |
Website URL: | www.glenuig.org.uk |
District: | Highland |