Supporting the Project
The project is in partnership with
We have also benefited from support, advice and feedback from experts at
The Shieling Project is based on the Struy Estate, where we are very fortunate to have the support of the Spencer-Nairn family and the award winning eco-tourism business Eagle Brae.
We are a social enterprise. The project is a not-for-profit organisation and our community impact is monitored on a yearly basis. That means we charge for our services but all that money goes into running the project. During our start-up phases we are relying also on funding and donations, so far we have gathered funding support from:
Tesco has teamed up with greenspace scotland to launch its Bags of Help initiative in Scotland. The scheme will see three community groups and projects in each of these regions awarded grants of £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 – all raised from the 5p bag charge. Bags of Help offers community groups and projects in each of Tesco’s regions across the UK a share of revenue generated from the five pence charge levied on single-use carrier bags. The public will now vote in store from 27 February until 6 March on who should receive the £12,000, £10,000 and £8,000 awards.
SSE Highland Sustainable Development Fund
The Hugh Fraser Foundation
Photos by the Shieling Project, Mhairi Baird, George Logan and David Powell
The project @JuliaHHeslop was talking about at our @ArchiFringe event is one of the community art projects at Shieldfield Art Works @SAWnewcastle, directed by @AlisonMerritS. Find out more here: https://t.co/3TPCFvzNPC #shieling https://t.co/p3ltdyBH0M
Fascinating to learn how the Dwellbeing project Newcastle is using the idea of the #shieling to open up a conversation about reclaiming public space in an urban context - so many common threads #reclaimthecommons #buildingcommunity #landjustice @JuliaHHeslop @ArchiFringe https://t.co/C0SaygtHaZ
Thanks to @LesleyRiddoch for her talk on huts and #shieling traditions in Scotland, Scandinavia and beyond, reflecting on the dispossession of so many Scots from the land #bothyculture #commons @ArchiFringe #Archifringe2019 https://t.co/Y1Gl94GLIL
The #commons is about stewardship of the things that we all share in common - natural resources & cultural inheritance - ensuring that we protect them & pass them on, undiminished, to future generations. In #Gaelic culture, this makes perfect sense #dùthchas #shieling #àirigh https://t.co/eTW2ZqUQxt
