Eilean Eisdeal: the Easdale Island Community Development Group
Eilean Eisdeal News
Masterplanning Exercise
An open community consultation meeting was held on Sunday 18th July to discuss a Masterplanning exercise for Easdale Island. This was an opportunity for everyone to voice opinions on how we, as a community, can establish a long term framework to help deal with the various challenges facing our community. The meeting included a live mind mapping exercise to find out and record thoughts and feelings on what needs to be done to secure a sustainable future for Easdale Island.
The original mindmap as well as the analysis can be downloaded in pdf format.
20 Aug 2010
Green Streets
An online presentation regarding our Scottish Gas Green Streets project is currently available at www.argylearchitecture.co.uk/
20 June 2010
Power monitor
Eilean Eisdeal is thrilled to have received an award of just over £12,000 from the Scottish Government's Climate Challenge Fund. The Climate Challenge Fund aims to help local communities develop a sustainable low carbon economy and to reduce their carbon emissions.
Our award will be used to install a “whole island” electricity meter that will monitor the consumption of power across the whole of Easdale Island. The results will be displayed real time on a display monitor that will be installed in one of the Island's public buildings. We will also hold some Community education days about energy conservation. We hope that this will improve awareness of energy consumption and encourage people to use less and so to reduce Easdale's carbon footprint.
This Project dovetails with our British Gas Greenstreets Project that aims to develop renewable sources of energy for our Community Hall and to improve energy efficiency in Island homes. We plan to start working on the meter and the display monitor shortly and to have the project completed by the end of the financial year.
June 2010
Hall Events
For more info see the hall website
8.00pm 11 Sept 2010
Blueflint
8.00pm 25 Sept 2010
Pre-Skim party with Sheelanagig
Sun 26 Sept 2010
World Stone Skimming Championships
And finally, the weather...
Easdale is a small island in Argyll on the west coast of Scotland, 16 miles south of Oban. 'Eilean Eisdeal', the Easdale Island Community Development Group, is a charitable organisation run by residents and friends of the island to carry out projects on the island of benefit to the community and with the long term aim of regeneration and sustainability for the island.
Eilean Eisdeal was set up in 1997. Its first major project, the renovation of a unique slate built hall on the island for use as an arts and community centre, was completed in May 2003. In 2005 funding was secured for the purchase of the island’s historic harbour and an adjacent area of land for community development. The regeneration and repair of the harbour continues to be an ongoing project.
Easdale Island Community Hall
Easdale Island Community Hall is host to the highly successful Eilean Eisdeal Arts Programme and other community activities and is also available for functions such as weddings and conferences. Details of Arts Programme events, the hall and its facilities, and how to go about booking the hall, are now available in our hall website.
Easdale Island Folk Museum
The award winning Easdale Island Folk Museum was purchased by Eilean Eisdeal in 2008. Now under community ownership it offers employment and volunteer opportunities to the islanders. Please see our Museum website for more information.
Eilean Eisdeal would not be able to survive without your support. Any assistance you can offer, either in terms of ideas or your time, or by way of financial donation or membership, will be of invaluable help in furthering the preservation and future viability of this unique island.
If you have never been to Easdale Island, we hope you'll visit soon! Please see our accommodation page for somewhere to stay.
