This mini-festival aims to highlight the wide range of fantastic books, guides, music and interpretation that has been created through the Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership to celebrate and share the area’s unique historic, cultural and natural heritage. Working closely with the community groups and individuals who created these brilliant resources, we have organised a weekend of in…

  Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership Scheme (CALLP),  has come to the end of the current phase of funding. Over the past five years, the scheme has delivered a programme of over 30 projects, supported though the National Lottery Heritage Fund and a range of other funders. As this phase draws to a close CALLP said goodbye on 30…

There has been a flurry of publishing activity among CALLP partners, with three hitting the shelves this month. North West Highlands Geopark has published a Walker’s Guide to Coigach & Assynt. Written by Dougie Cunningham, the book details 26 walks, and is beautifully illustrated with over 110 photographs, and maps for each route. This is the ideal guide to help…

Celebrating the landscape and nature of Coigach and Assynt By Jenny Grant, local author and artist of ‘Between Mountain and Sea – A Dog’s Adventure in Coigach & Assynt’ Quite a lot of my book making process involves procrastination, but much of this procrastination is in the form of walking, and this turned into substance for my new book, ‘Between…

An artist who creates textiles to explore the ‘fabric’ of a place has just been appointed as Artist in Residence for a Coigach & Assynt Living Landscape Partnership project. Clara Elliot is a Scotland-based artist whose work aims to reflect the relationship between landscapes, people and ecology. With a background in art history and landscape architecture, her work takes an…