In the September issue of the Achnasheen and Garve News & Views, we will be launching a new initiative "Friends of News & Views" this, we hope, will raise much needed funds, to enable us to trade-in the current community photocopier/printer, which due to age is increasingly breaking down, and the quality, especially photographs, is rapidly deteriorating.
To kick-start this initiative we are writing to all local land-owners and businesses to ask for help to raise in the region of £5,500.
Currently the newsletter is put together by our editor (Jackie), hard copies are then forwarded to me, which I then run through the machine, collate and sort into batches, ready for our network of volunteers to distribute free, to every household in the community. ALL work is carried out by volunteers.
Local hotels, post offices and shops take copies of the newsletter which they then sell; we have a number of ongoing postal subscriptions, which with the advertising, helps fund the cost of printing and upkeep of the machine.
So how can you help?
To become a 'friend' you can:
* Set up a direct debit, and pledge a fixed annual amount, which will go towards the annual running costs.
* Make a one-off donation, which will be put towards the initial cost of the new printer.
All 'friends' will be acknowledged in the newsletter and on the website, unless you wish to remain anonymous.
The newsletter plays an important role within our scattered community.
We would be grateful for your help, any amount would make a difference - contact me for more details.
Harry Grainge
Volunteer in charge of newsletter production
mailto:grainge.inchbae@btinternet.com
Wind Farm proposal : Planning Officer address details
At the Community Council meeting last night it was pointed out that the address given, for the Highland Council Planning Officer, in the newsletter, was incomplete.
Here follows the full address:
The Director of Planning & Development,
The Highland Council Headquarters,
Glenurquhart Road,
Inverness,
IV3 5NX.
This is who you should write to, to raise any objections to the proposed wind farm development at Corriemoillie.
If you are planning to write, please do this when the application is submitted by E.ON - and that is scheduled for November as far as I am aware.
Jackie
Here follows the full address:
The Director of Planning & Development,
The Highland Council Headquarters,
Glenurquhart Road,
Inverness,
IV3 5NX.
This is who you should write to, to raise any objections to the proposed wind farm development at Corriemoillie.
If you are planning to write, please do this when the application is submitted by E.ON - and that is scheduled for November as far as I am aware.
Jackie
Watch this space!
Coming soon!
A new fundraising initiative from Achnasheen and Garve News & Views team....
Watch this space!
(Alternatively, if you have some spare cash and you would like to donate to a very worthy cause contact the team for details, by email at achnasheenandgarve.com).
A new fundraising initiative from Achnasheen and Garve News & Views team....
Watch this space!
(Alternatively, if you have some spare cash and you would like to donate to a very worthy cause contact the team for details, by email at achnasheenandgarve.com).
A chance to win a fun day out - and help otters, too!
Enter our Photo Caption Competition and you could win a fun day out for you and your friends (and help the otters too)!
We have three charity paintball tickets waiting to be won, each for a group of up to eight people, giving free entry and equipment hire for a full day of adrenaline-pumping, paintball action.
For details about this exciting competition go to:
http://www.otter.org/picturecaptioncompetition.htm
Good Luck!
Kind regards
Dr Paul Yoxon CBiol MIBiol
Head of Operations
INTERNATIONAL OTTER SURVIVAL FUND
7 Black Park, Broadford
Isle of Skye, IV49 9DE
Scotland
Tel/Fax: 01471 822 487
Email: otteroffice@aol.com
Website: www.otter.org
The International Otter Survival Fund - working to save the world's otters
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