Benderlochselfcatering.co.uk Make Memories and Have Adventures : Relax and Recharge in a quiet quality spacious well equipped luxury 3 bedroom house in own garden, outside the village of Benderloch, 10 miles from the tourist centre and ferry port of Oban.This is a perfect workcation retreat - do you want to take your team to brainstorm - or take a break away from life to work on a project. Home comforts .. lots of space and quality environment. Superfast wifi .. 4g .. lots of space .. great places to walk to revitalize the grey cells.

Running 24 acre mixed livestock and retail businessCreating Living Larders : Transforming the farm to a Permaculture system : Producing food, fuel and forage : improving the diversity of the farm ecosystem, capturing carbon and making soils. Running intro to Permaculture courses, herbal walks. Host of Ardchattan Parish ArchiveIn the past had a Pure breed Jacob sheep flock for grazing, meat and fleece, a significant Pure Breed Poultry and waterfowl breeding programme selecting for Utility production traits - meat and egg production, while keeping the breed characteristics intact. Growing a wide variety of herbs & perennials for sale here.Past Host of Local Origins Rural Network Community Producers Market

Became Chair

Have been creating and maintaining websites for local community organisations for some years. Now extending this to local Small Businesses, concentrating on creating and supporting the structure that the owners can populate so ensuring that the site reflects their voice, and they maintain control.

Online and on farm sales of poultry housing, chosen for its high quality, practicality, affordability, but most of all for its use for the livestock concerned. Customer support -First and Foremost - in person, email and phoneSalesWebsite designMarketingAdvert designsCustomer serviceAttending promotional events

The organisation’s purposes are:- To create social, economic and environmental sustainability in our North Argyll community.This overall aim will be achieved through a number of supporting objectives.The Network will –* Promote all aspects of sustainability to our local population in a way that provides bitesize, achievable, accessible actions for each of us to undertake.* Develop active networks within our community and between LORN and related organisations.* Plan and deliver a range of educational activities to encourage responsible and sustainable uses of our local resources.* Promote local food and creativity to the local population* Improve the local primary skills and producer businesses with business development support.* Promote greater awareness of our local environment and heritage.* Actively work with and support local, regional and national organisations who share our aims, by facilitating, promoting and engaging in activities and projects to further these aims.

This study is the beginning of bringing together and sharing some of the research that has gone on over the last few decades by descendants of the People of Glenaray, and local researchers.It will explore the people who were born, married and died at the Townships of Glenaray : Clonary, Killean, Auchnagoul, Auchindrain, Braleckan, Craleckan, Auchintibbert, down into Furnace, their ancestors, descendants, and their stories. Contributions, suggestions, and corrections are very welcome

completed contract

Short term role to audit and update trust in their governance, administration, procedures, processes. Organised internal mailing, records, finances etc to enable full access from pan global trustees. Created Trello / Slack / Email / environments and populated to enable collaborative working across all responsibilities Audited and reported on all the Trust documents - indicating the omissions and updates requiredUpdated websites and social media accounts : administration, content and structures Created GDPR compliant mailing list environment Set up fundraising opportunities Set up systems for future Trust activities to fulfil their charitable aims and objectives. Audited past Gathering event and created event management outline for future event.

Supported development and moderation of Facebook groupDesigned, printed and helped distribute the flyer in time for Royal Highland ShowCreated membership map to begin to enable networking and support between potential membersContributed to website development group. Contributed practical experience of running a rural community networking organisationDesigned and created content for the first newsletterInitiating and developing wider social media resources for the organisation

Growing and selling hardy plants for gardeners - locals and tourists alike.Specialised in Rhododedron hybrids for many yearsLaterly specialising in herbs and wildlife plants. Also a very wide range of cottage garden perennials.

Collecting the stories and history of Dalmally Railway Station Creating a timeline of events, activities and imagesCreating a public display for passengers and public visitors to Dalmally StationDeveloping an archive of material relating to the stories and the people of the station.

Brought together local primary producers and the local (&tourist) communities. Promotion to ensure a strong audience for traders; developing the only regular community space where several hundred local people congregated, spent some time, chatted, met up with friends, as well as buying from small local business. This space was also well used by other charities, community organisations, students, to engage with the community - learn from them, fundraising, share their objectives. The market changed peoples buying habits, created new artistic relationships; and developed support between producers.

Vice ChairMembership SecretarySecretaryWebsiteNewsletter PromotionEvents

Annual event bringing together modellers and community from all over Scotland, to showcase and share their passions. Trains, boats, cars, planes .. all with their own activity areas. Over 750 visitors out to a small village in North Argyll. The only thing we cannot control is the weather !!

Building new build house from start of the planning process to completion

We collected together local craft people's work at our farm shop; with an amazing array of skills and designs. By the end we had over 85 different craft people involved from all around Argyll. We did not restrict ourselves to selling from home, but took the shop into Oban at different times, including a 6 week pre Christmas stint renting an empty shop as well as organising many craft fairs and attending local shows and events. Extending this into online sales would have been good, but there was not enough Enterprise company support for an online portal with all the backend organisation that would have been necessary to cope with so many different people's product and location.

Created Argyll Animal Aid, first as a community group, then led it through gaining its Charitiable status. Organised the structure of the organisationDeveloped the fostering system Coordinated the enquiries and fostering services Took care of many animals Coordinated the fundraisers Created the website

Set up Community group, then led through gaining Charitable StatusDeveloped fostering systems, and coordinated enquiries and rehomingCoordinated fundraising, events, promotionOrganised eventsFostering / Rescuing / Veterinary Care / Re-training a wide variety of animalsCreated website

creating cataloguesalescustomer service

1760's house renovated inside and out, stripping back the modern wall coverings, discovering original panelling and features, which were kept where possible. Bringing all the services up to date, treating for unwanted pests, replacing damaged materials, and creating a home, filled with past and for the future.

Penning livestock on Auction DaysCounting livestock on and off the mart and loading and unloading lorriesStockman duties between auction daysDriving livestock from Ferries to fields and Mart premisesDriving people and livestock from A -B and X-Y Being responsible for health status paperwork at pedigree salesCleaning, fixing, Setting up for furniture sales - layout, and paperwork -- and display and paperwork through out sales

Fairly fundamental renovation of a detached bungalow and gardens that had been badly neglected, and added 65% to its value.