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NOW RECRUITING for Landscape Partnership Scheme

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The Coigach – Assynt Living Landscape is now recruiting for three full time positions to assist in implementing the Landscape Partnership Scheme.  These positions are: Assistant Scheme Manager Education Manager Woodland Manager Download the recruitment poster for application details and application deadlines.

Acheninver Hostel opens with Hearth Blessing

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Lucy Graham, Head of Development. Susan Davies, Director of Conservation and Mark Foxwell, Senior Conservation Manager of Scottish Wildlife Trust join new tenants Ruth Bradley and Iain Simpson in ‘blessing of the hearth’, as the Acheninver Youth Hostel re-opens for business!

What's On… at Quinag!

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
Fancy an amphibian encounter or the benefit of the expertise of local Naturalist Ian Evan to explore the wildlife and plants of Quinag?  Or perhaps you would like to make a contribution to conservation with your time and effort as a JMT volunteer?   Romany Garnett, Quinag Conservation Officer with John Muir Trust shares the schedule of public activities. Download the JMT…

Green Fingers Training!

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Little Assynt Tree Nursery has put together fortnightly taster sessions in basic tree growing skills. Over 8 weeks you will learn a variety of skills including mixing compost, sowing seeds, preparing cells, pricking out, taking cuttings, tree identification and collecting seeds. Starting on Tuesday 5th July, the sessions run from 12-2pm. We can take a maximum of 6 people at…

Rogart Research Team Visit!

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Last week pupils from Rogart Primary School visited Little Assynt Tree Nursery on a research mission! They are starting their own tree nursery and were having a look at how we do things at Little Assynt. The budding horticulturists learned about all the stages in growing trees and got hands on transplanting Juniper and Scots Pine seedlings and taking Aspen…

Primary 7 Go Wild!

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Since April, Primary 7 pupils from Lochinver, Stoer, Achiltibuie and Ullapool have been part of an exciting transition project ‘Discovering Wild Places’. It has given the pupils the opportunity to work together to discover, explore and conserve wild spaces, and share their experiences, fulfilling all elements of the Discover level of the John Muir Award, before they head into S1…

Open Invitation to Community for CALL Steering Meetings

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All meetings of the CALL steering group are open to interested members of the public, the next meeting is on 27th June at Glencanisp.  Come along and find out what’s going on! In the past the Coigach – Assynt Living Landscape Steering Group has been open to the public.  However it was agreed last March 2016 that this invitation will…

CALLP Update

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
A detailed Stage Two Application was submitted to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) in November 2015. This is for a Landscape Partnership Scheme comprising 14 partner organisations (most of whom are local to the area) working together to deliver twenty eight individual projects over five years, with a staff team of six people employed directly to manage the projects and…

Little Assynt Tree Nursery Visitors

, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape
So far, 2016 at Little Assynt Tree Nursery has been a hive of activity. Back in February we were out with volunteers collecting Juniper seeds and Aspen root, the last to be collected before seed sowing. Volunteers have been helping out on a weekly or fortnightly basis, for an hour or two, or all day. Even some visitors to the…

Coigach Assynt Living Landscape Welcome Historic Assynt to Partnership

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It is with great pleasure that that Coigach – Assynt Living Landscape welcomes Historic Assynt to the partnership.  Following the request of Historic Assynt to join the Coigach Assynt Living Landscape, the Steering Group unanimously and enthusiastically approved the request last March 2016, and look forward to Historic Assynt joining the growing partnership. Coigach – Assynt Living Landscape is an…

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