Skyecomuseum

FORGET about the countdown to the Games in Brazil…
There’s only one Games that counts.
And next week is showtime for the Staffin Ladies’ tug o’war team at the theatre of dreams itself – The Lump.
Fresh from their spectacular 2015 triumph the squad is preparing to go into battle once again at the Skye Highland Games and their rivals should beware. The Staffin women are currently in the midst of an arduous pre-games programme of intensive altitude training on the Trotternish Ridge, which has involved winning a practice pull ...

 
STAFFIN residents are invited to attend a drop in community event this weekend hosted by the consultant team investigating potential improvements to the visitor site at the Old Man of Storr.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) announced last month that a consortium led by Hazel Allen of Dingwall-based Athena Solutions, Richard Heggie of Urban Animation and Sam Foster Architects, were awarded the contract to carry out an Options Appraisal of Highland Council-owned land at the Storr. The team is now looking ...

A HOUSE, which could suit a family, has gone on the market in Staffin.
The owner of the three-bedroomed bungalow at 5 Culnacnoc, which is about four miles south of Staffin Primary School, is looking for offers of more than £175,000. 

Situated next to the Staffin-Portree A855 road, the house is being marketed by Inverness-based estate agents, Murchison Law.
More details about the house, here: http://www.murchisonlaw.co.uk/property-listings-page/property/107-the-bungalow.html
Staffin Community Trust is currently working with its partners on providing new housing in the district. A ...

STAFFIN’S biz listings have welcomed the 10th local business to join the burgeoning online directory.
MacKenzie Stores, which is a shop, hot food takeaway – and the only fuel station in the Taobh Sear – is the latest business to be featured on the Staffin Community Trust website http://staffin-trust.co.uk/shops-2 

The SCT want to help promote ALL the businesses in the community and boost the local economy by promoting them online via its popular website. SCT had more than 3,600 page views in the last four weeks and ...

MONDAYS are set to get a lot more brighter as talented Highland dancers from Trotternish and the rest of Skye stage a series of summer ceilidhs.
Dannsairean An Eilein Sgitheanaich (DAES) is a group based in Skye under the tutelage of Karen Campbell from Kilmaluag. 
Karen has more than 70 dancers from all over the island in her group which competes at events all over Scotland. 

Locals and visitors will get several opportunities to see the DAES girls for themselves for the next few Monday nights in Portree, the island’s capital. The group is performing at shows which ...

THE community newsletter round up from Staffin is out now.  It includes all the latest news from the Taobh Sear including a special anniversary for Staffin Stores, all the latest updates from the Gym, Staffin Primary School and the Flodigarry and Staffin community trusts, a bumper line up of tutors at Fèis Thròndairnis and a preview of the Staffin Sheepdog Trials. There is also an update on Staffin’s key contribution to Skye Camanachd Ladies’ excellent season to date. A pictorial preview below.
The newsletter can be downloaded here: Staffin Summer 2016 ...

STAFFIN and the Trotternish peninsula will be coming to the small screen this autumn, as filming for a popular BBC series is now in the can.
With a Victorian guidebook in his hands, presenter Paul Murton follows in the footsteps of the first tourists to Scotland, travelling the country and tracing the changes that have taken place since the birth of Scottish tourism 200 years ago.
Paul, who was brought up in Argyll, is the face of the BBC series “Grand Tours of the ...

STAFFIN Community Trust (SCT) has awarded a key contract which will assess the potential purchase and improvements of local authority-owned land at the Old Man of Storr.
SCT has appointed an experienced project team to investigate the Highland Council site at the hugely popular island landmark which attracts visitors from all over the world.
A consortium team led by Dingwall-based Athena Solutions, and partners Richard Heggie of Urban Animation and Sam Foster Architects, were successful in the tendering process and have ...

A PEDIGREE cow owned by a Kilmaluag crofter has been crowned champion female at Scotland’s biggest and most prestigious agricultural show.
Donald Rankin’s two-year-old Aberdeen Angus, called Retties Lady Ruth N228, won and beat almost 80 other rivals in the process. The judge Russel Taylor said she was an “excellent example of her breed” and “moved well” in the show ring.  Cattle at shows are judged on their individual traits, for example, whether they have a good back end, her topline and length, and if ...

BOOKINGS for a popular outdoor Gaelic course in Staffin, which was shortlisted for a national award last year, are now being taken


Urras an Taobh Sear (Staffin Community Trust) hosts the first part of Gaelic broadcaster Roddy MacLean’s course Àrainneachd, Cànan is Dualchas next month. 
The 10-day Gaelic in the environment course is aimed at fluent Gaelic speakers and advanced learners. It is supported by Bòrd na Gàidhlig.  This year it is offered in two five-day blocks and is suitable for ...

STAFFIN could host a flood of Indian Bollywood fans this summer after one of the country’s most famous voices sung the praises of the Kilt Rock to her millions of fans.
The Taobh Sear received a very welcome promotional boost this week from Shreya Ghoshal, a hugely popular star in India.
The Bollywood singer visited the Kilt Rock and Mealt Falls on Monday and took to social media to post a picture of the famous cliff tops in Staffin to her 4.3 million followers on Twitter. She hailed the Jurassic ...

A VIEWING platform at a Staffin waterfall is among the plans for a proposed major enhancement of the Skye Ecomuseum.
Staffin Community Trust (SCT) has now submitted funding and planning applications to the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) and Highland Council, respectively, following a two-year development and consultation process which has involved the local community and several public agencies along the way. 
SCT wants to construct a viewing platform at Lealt Gorge, similar to a structure built by the National Trust for Scotland at ...

A WELSH teenager who had a memorable holiday at a Staffin youth hostel in the early 1960s has uncovered images of Staffin’s crofting past.
Fifty four years later and David Evans is now able to share the pictures with the local community he took when he was only 17 in September 1962. 
It was the month that Ford launched the Cortina, the Glasgow Tramways ran its last normal service and Rangers had started their successful 1961/62 league campaign which would see them pip ...

AS VISITOR, and vehicle, numbers have noticeably soared in the last few days of sunshine at the Storr, the Staffin Community Trust (SCT) has secured the funding required for an Options Appraisal of the roadside site owned by the local authority.
And three excellent bids have now been lodged by tenderers looking to carry out the hugely important contract which will review all the options at the location, the estimated costs and community and economic benefit for each one investigated.
SCT is currently assessing ...

A SCOTTISH indie band who used Staffin as the setting for their song’s video are to play Portree later this month.
Ayrshire three-piece Fatherson will perform at the Portree Community Centre on Thursday, May 26 during their national tour in support of their new album “Open Book” which is released in June.
Earlier this year the group filmed a video for the song “Lost Little Boys” which used Staffin Beach, Staffin and Flodigarry islands, Rigg, Culnacnoc, the Storr and Quiraing as the wintry backdrop to the story of betrayal. ...