iLAND Festival | Isle Martin Trust
Festival of Future Living and Community Resilience
Invitation to be yourself, on an island, on the weekend of 19th/20th/21st of May 2017
This 3 day, off-grid, island bound festival wants you! Community owned and run Isle Martin is extending its usual open day to fit in more walks, talks and other installations.
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Pay £400 for your first year and help it to actually happen. Fundraising for one month only.
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The BroomPower Community Share offer opened on 30th April 2016 and will close on 31st Aug (or earlier if the full amount has been reached). The minimum investment is £300 (due to related administration costs) and investors can invest any amount from £300 up to the maximum of £90,000. Group investments, investments on behalf of children and grandchildren and payment by installments will all be accepted. Each investor (or group) will receive one vote regardless of the amount invested and the level of your investment will remain confidential. If for any reason the scheme does not commence, then all payments will be returned to investors by 30th Sept 2016.
The level of interest paid on Community Shares will be recommended by the Board each year and voted on by members. The target level is 4%, but this may vary and no interest will be paid until generation has begun.
Investors should expect to maintain their investment for at least five years and can request that their capital be repaid in full or in part any time after that. All requests will be considered equally by the Board and the intention is to repay approx. 1/20th of the capital each year of generation. Under exceptional circumstances, capital may be repaid earlier than 3 years at the discretion of the Board. Once an investor is repaid in full, that investor’s membership will end.
Become a shareholder and member of Lochbroom Community Renewables Ltd (LCR)
This workshop is taking place in the scenic off-grid village of Scoraig. 
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Present: Jill, Aggie, Estha, Mairead, Chisha and Zoë
Apologies: Lisa, Anthea, Jessie
Zoë to take minutes. Jill to chair. Next meeting Tuesday 2 June at 11am.
End of Year Accounts – New excel format, new petty cash policy 1 cashier, standing float, Bunkhouse income BACS or cheque.
VAT – STG eligible for reduced rate VAT as charity – form to return to HMRC with most recent accounts to receive certificate.
Office Computer – Thanks to Lee, looking into transfer of files from office computer to external hard drive to facilitate access.
Signatories – Finally completed after much delay/frustration – complaint registered, compensation awarded to STG of £620.40.
Fuel – It was decided any future long-term tenants will be liable to provide their own fuel eg coal and gas.
Summer Bookings – 2 bookings taken already. Further promotion necessary for summer period between Monday 6 July – Friday 14 August. Update website to reflect this, post on Scoraig small ads, contact tourist office, post ad on gumtree. Zoë to do.
Alternative Accommodation Options – As there is currently a long-term tenant and there may again be, it would be good to add more info to the website about alternative options for accommodation. Zoë will co-ordinate.
New Bunkhouse – There was also the suggestion that funding streams could be explored to finance a new purpose built bunkhouse and this should be discussed with SCA, to see if there is interest, and if so, to establish a feasibility group.
Annual Maintenance Schedule – Water crisis at the weekend – filter needs to be changed on a regular basis so Aggie will do so in future. Rayburn needs to be looked after too. Suggested that an annual maintenance schedule is devised and followed. Zoë will prepare a draft for consideration at the next meeting.
Stools ready for use – awaiting feedback from school. (Thanks to Ewan Bush for collection and delivery).
Lighting – Thanks to Hugh for the test spots in kitchen. Consensus please swap out cool white for warm. After discussion, Zoë to explore uplighters too for a more diffuse light option.
Chairs – very comfy and met with general approval – felt feet needed for chairs – Zoë to source in Inverness.
Nursery Toilet Floor – thanks to W for doing it, looks good, still requires some finishing mastic.
Blinds – Kitchen ok for projectors for the time being – we will continue to explore more permanent alternatives for both spaces.
STG Volunteer Day – Old well needs to be filled in. Suggested could combine with other jobs for an STG volunteer day. Bench varnishing to be included. Sunday 5 July is suggested date.
Windmill Workshop – went well – dinners hosted in the school – very positive feedback – £100 earned for STG.
Recurring Water Leak – either roof or water tank – Aggie to contact Aaron to come and give the roof a once over.
Teacher on Committee – In response to offer STG would be delighted to have a primary school teacher join the committee.
Jorgen Talk – projection worked well – described as very inspiring.
AGM – Wednesday 24 June – afternoon tea from 3pm meeting at 4pm.
Polish Food Night – Chisha proposes to host Polish Food night to fundraise for her education.
Children’s Party – Ellie and Don have expressed interest to book school for birthday party at the end of September.
Nothing raised.
From mid April to mid May the Danish journalist and author Jørgen Steen Nielsen will be staying on Scoraig to work on a book on the global ecological and financial challenges and the need for a transition to a sustainable, resilient way of living.
He has written on this subject for many years for his paper, Danish daily Information, and in a number of previous books. On Scoraig he will give a public talk to inspire discussion and learn from people living here. Trained as a biologist Jørgen Steen Nielsen’s starting point is the climate and ecological crisis, but seeing this as closely linked to the globalized growth economy he will discuss the challenges as well as the efforts made to pave the way for a new economy.
The lecture will be given at
Scoraig Secondary School on Wednesday 15th April at 8 p.m
Present: Jill, Aggie, Chisha, Zoë, Anthea, Mairead, Jessie
Apologies: Lisa, Estha
(1) Next meeting: meeting set for Thursday 5th March 2015 in 6 weeks time
(2) Admin update:
(a) Accounts – Cash Flow Manager updated Aug-Dec ’14 with associated documentation.
Current Balance £4,620.20
(b) Signatories – Joany removed and Zoë added will be finalised when branch visited to confirm ID.
(c) Bank Account Statements – address delivery admin error now corrected by bank.
(d) Rates Rebate – Form completed and returned to Highland Council (HC) awaiting outcome.
(e) Village Halls Grant Scheme – Application for £1K submitted to HC (including accounts retyped for 2010 -14).
(f) Online registration – STG now registered online with Zurich Insurance and OSCR.
(g) Office – External Hard Drive supplied by Tommy to transfer data from office computer but yet to be done – committee suggested contact Lee to facilitate the process.
(h) Chairs and stools – researched sources of both and shared with the committee
(3) ‘Dritfwood’
(a) Rental agreement: Administrator to arrange rental agreement with Claire until end of June.
(b) Fridge /freezers: The problems with fridge and freezers are now being dealt with. Thanks to all who have tried to help solve the problem.
(c) Electrics: Hugh asked to look at electric supply from windmill to Driftwood at some point.
(4) Secondary School
(a) Chairs: It was decided to buy new chairs for the Secondary school. In order to raise funds for this an all day cafe event has been proposed. Date to be decided.
(b) Leak: Solutions will be invited to solve problem of leak just inside door of Secondary school.
(c) Gas Smell: John is going to investigate gas smell in kitchen.
(5) Hearing Loop: Discussion ongoing about the possible instalation of a hearing loop in the secondary school.
(6) Events: Various events discussed, dates to be decided.
(7) Constitution: Further discussion about changes to STG constitution. This will be considered over coming months in readiness for AGM.
Scoraig Community Association
Minutes of a meeting held on 24.1.15
Present: Laurence Glass, Cathy Dagg, David Bush, Wojcieck Paszczyk, Andy Cox, Jill Beavitt, Jan Betts, Paul Betts, Luke Richards, Dale Nicolson, Aggie Brudenell, Bev Beavitt, Jessie Millard, Martha Kerr, Estha Rushforth, Bill Burstall
1.Minutes of meeting held on 19.11.14 were approved
Bill stressed the importance of having an anchor, properly attached, and knowing how and when to use it is more important than having oars.
Agreed that W will take responsibility for ensuring boat is properly equipped, and someone will go through a service list with him. Andy Cox will continue to ensure there is fuel.
New mooring rope will be fitted during Easter holidays
Bill things pebble bags are still the best option for the top track, but there is concern John Sangster’s quarry may be exhausted. Work done with Nigel’s tractor and trailer was good and should be repeated.
Sleeping policemen at the secondary school: there are old posts in the Badluarach car park, or if these are too rotten some telegraph posts . Martha and David will ferry them over.
Next meeting 21st March Cathy