Highlife Rangers Archives - Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

A Volunteering Thank You

23rd September 2021, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Volunteering has been an integral part of the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership, right from the very beginning. What makes us unique from other partnerships was the amount of volunteer community groups who signed up to support projects over the 5 years. When I started my role in year 2 of the scheme there had already been a…

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Orographic Performance comes to Little Assynt All Abilities Path

30th July 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Last Tuesday we had some visitors to Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape by the name of Oceanallover. Currently they are on a tour of Scotland, performing their amazing Orographic piece. When we were first contacted about hosting a performance, we were intrigued and a look at their website and past events just made us want them to perform in the…

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A hill walk celebration

12th June 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

The P7 John Muir Award finale involved a hill walk up Quinag today. We were guided safely up the mountain by several mountain leaders, including the head teacher of Ullapool High School, Robbie McFedries who joined us to spend some quality time with next academic year’s S1s. It was wonderful seeing how the P7s from the area’s primary schools have…

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Twenty-nine teens, four days, and an Island

3rd June 2019, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Early last Tuesday morning, twenty-nine Ullapool High School S1 students arrived on Isle Martin and set up camp for a four-day residential trip. During this time, they took part in various activities including kayaking, den-building, bird-spotting, seashore exploration, woodland immersion, and a mini-expedition to another part of the island. And there was plenty of time in the mornings and evenings…

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Ullapool High School Students Survive The Iron Age!

21st November 2018, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Ullapool High School S2s stepped back in time on a windy, autumnal day at Clachtoll Broch earlier this month. Three main tasks had been prepared for the pupils, enabling them to delve further into their exploration of the local history as they work towards their Archaeology Scotland Heritage Hero Awards. The tepee was set up as a “Mock Broch” for…

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A walk on the wild side at Clachtoll

29th October 2018, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

Another rough week of weather but the sun tried to shine for us and people came out to join myself, Andy, David and Avril on a walk around Clachtoll, learning about wildlife recording and its importance. So fully waterproofed up (just in case!), we headed out! Assynt Field Club, of which Andy, David and Avril are members, are corelating wildlife…

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Raffin Beach Clean Success!

20th September 2018, by Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape

At the start of the week when I looked at the weather forecast for the 13th and 14th I was sceptical if we would be able to run the beach clean with the horrible weather that was being predicted but as the week went on things started to look brighter and I headed down, hoping some brave people would join…