Clyne Heritage Society
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Participants in the guided walk to examine the archaeology of the cleared township of Leadoch, Strath Brora.
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2023 Aultcraggie dig
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2023 Aultcraggie dig
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2023 Aultcraggie dig
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NEWS
We are absolutely thrilled to announce news that our application to the Westminster Government’s Levelling Up Fund (Community Ownership Fund) has been successful. The £1.95M requested by the Society has been awarded in full, and constitutes the final brick in the funding wall for the Society’s c£4.5m redevelopment of the semi-derelict Old Clyne School, to become Brora’s new community heritage centre and museum.
This position has been reached though the sheer passion, resilience, dedication and skill of the team of happy volunteers on our Board and a few other individuals who have helped along the way, together with the professional assistance of our appointed design team and advisors. We thank them all, as well as all of our 13 different funders who have had faith in our project.
We will now be able to showcase our incredible Highland history to the world from a lovingly restored historic building, fronting onto the A9 and massively popular North Coast 500 tourist route.
It has been a very long road, with lots of false dawns and bumps along the way. Covid, for example, delayed our project for around three years: ironically, we had raised enough to actually begin construction before the first lockdown. However, the ensuing inflation associated with Covid, the war in Ukraine, and other external factors beyond our control, has doubled the price of our project to an astonishing £4.5M.
We are not naïve enough to think it will be plain sailing from here. Churchill had a phrase for this stage, and we know exactly what he meant. The really hard work starts now!
We are absolutely thrilled to announce news that our application to the Westminster Government’s Levelling Up Fund (Community Ownership Fund) has been successful. The £1.95M requested by the Society has been awarded in full, and constitutes the final brick in the funding wall for the Society’s c£4.5m redevelopment of the semi-derelict Old Clyne School, to become Brora’s new community heritage centre and museum.
This position has been reached though the sheer passion, resilience, dedication and skill of the team of happy volunteers on our Board and a few other individuals who have helped along the way, together with the professional assistance of our appointed design team and advisors. We thank them all, as well as all of our 13 different funders who have had faith in our project.
We will now be able to showcase our incredible Highland history to the world from a lovingly restored historic building, fronting onto the A9 and massively popular North Coast 500 tourist route.
It has been a very long road, with lots of false dawns and bumps along the way. Covid, for example, delayed our project for around three years: ironically, we had raised enough to actually begin construction before the first lockdown. However, the ensuing inflation associated with Covid, the war in Ukraine, and other external factors beyond our control, has doubled the price of our project to an astonishing £4.5M.
We are not naïve enough to think it will be plain sailing from here. Churchill had a phrase for this stage, and we know exactly what he meant. The really hard work starts now!
About us
Clyne Heritage Society is a very active heritage group, based in the village of Brora (in the parish of Clyne) on the east coast of Sutherland in the Highlands of Scotland.
The fully constituted Society was formed in 1998 by a group of people living in the parish who were interested in preserving Clyne’s fascinating and quickly disappearing heritage, e.g. demolition of coal mine in 1981 and Hunter’s Woollen Mill in 2004. The Society has acquired registered charitable status; it is made up of a committee of 8 and currently has a membership of over 200 people, spread far and wide.
We are actively involved in supporting all heritage matters within our own parish, and we are also concerned in the wider heritage affairs of the whole of the County of Sutherland.
The fully constituted Society was formed in 1998 by a group of people living in the parish who were interested in preserving Clyne’s fascinating and quickly disappearing heritage, e.g. demolition of coal mine in 1981 and Hunter’s Woollen Mill in 2004. The Society has acquired registered charitable status; it is made up of a committee of 8 and currently has a membership of over 200 people, spread far and wide.
We are actively involved in supporting all heritage matters within our own parish, and we are also concerned in the wider heritage affairs of the whole of the County of Sutherland.