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Link Housing, in charge of the home development, wanted to include a new woodland as part of its future vision for Dunbeg and asked community and charity stalwart Susan Simpson to help set up a new organisation to take the forest forward.
Lockdown seems to have stirred up even more sense of adventure among young people, keen to explore more options and find out about the opportunities of volunteering abroad
Woodland Trust Scotland recruited volunteers to join in a special seed collection countrywide and a dozen of them were out at Dunollie last week.
Service workers thanked volunteers at a recent celebratory night.
Volunteers who run Ellenabeich’s Heritage Centre gathered to raise a glass and toast a healthy future as visitors, up to 14,000 in a normal year, return after 15 months to enjoy the museum’s collection of artefacts reflecting bygone life on the Slate Islands.
James Hardie, one of the station’s deputy coxswains, has been a volunteer for Oban lifeboat for 10 years while Leonie Mead first stepped onboard as a crew member in 2017.
Councillor Mackay, said whilst it was impossible to name all the groups or to capture the range of support offered via voluntary groups across the islands over the past year, the service provided had been immeasurable.
Mary’s Meals reaches more than 1.8 million hungry children in the world’s poorest countries with a daily meal at school but its work is only possible with the support it gets from its volunteers.
