Author Archive | Peigi MacLean

Garadh a Bagh a tuath has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the higest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Garadh a’ Bhàgh a Tuath are one of only 24 organisations from across Scotland to be awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award this year and have been awarded it for providing […]

On Saturday 4th May we headed to Clachan for our annual plant sale day on North Usit and what a day we had!  People were waiting for us to arrive and we sold loads of our lovely planters, shrubs and a whole variety of bedding plants.  Our sales were up on last year by over […]

The big metal storage containers have arrived on site and work has started on the space between them.  Last Friday, volunteers built the initial framework and diggers arrived today to lay the concrete.  All this work was made possible by the funding we were awarded this year from the Youth Philanthropy Fund.  The Castlebay Community […]

Good news, the Thursday café is back. Thursday 17th January will be  the first café of 2019. There will be home made soups, toasties with a variety of fillings, ploughman’s lunch and of course our selection of home baking. We look forward to seeing you there 🙂  

We have some amazing news to share with you regarding our lottery application….click on the link below and all will be revealed…. Press Release   We are all absolutely delighted with this news, a lot of hard work has been put into this application and thankfully it has paid off. A huge well done to everyone […]

Happy new year to everyone. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Our café re-opens tomorrow, 11th January. Our soups this week will be carrot and coriander and leek and potato,  there will also  be the usual toasties and home baking available too. We look forward to seeing you all there 🙂 […]

On Thursday night we held our Christmas party night. It was a huge success, there was lovely food, drink, singing and dancing with music from two of Barra’s young, talented  musicians, Ceilan and Andrerw MacNeil.  We like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers who helped with all the preparations and on the […]

Garadh a Bhagh a Tuath would like to say a massive thanks you to the co-op and its members who supported us in this years local community funds. £2276.80 was awarded to Garadh which was used to help make paths around the site, making it far more accessible to everyone. the paths have made life a […]

Well it is that time of the year again we are all felling festive.  Thursday 7th December will be the last café of the year and we will be having a Christmas jumper day in aid of Mary’s Meals.   We will all be wearing our Christmas jumpers and donating money to the charity.   So, please come along and if you want,  you too can wear your […]

We would like to say a big thank you to everybody who came along to the quiz on Saturday night.  It was an incredible turnout everybody seemed to have a great night.  We raised a fantastic £481.51  towards our new build fund taking us over our first thousand pounds!!   We’ve still got a long way to […]