As of 31st October 2017, Community Moorings Scotland is officially registered with The Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR) as a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO). This has been a six-month process from drafting the constitution as a member-led charity to applying for and adapting our charity application. But… Continue reading
As many of you know i applied for a farm start-up grant back in October. Well it took a while but we have now been awarded the grant which in a round-about way is also great news for Community Owned Moorings (COMs). Why? Well as Narrowboat Farm (NBF) is the… Continue reading
So our last interaction with SC was an email from us on the 16th January. Last week we received a response from Deborah Burns who is our main point of contact now. You can read and comment on the latest response at the end of this document: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vC5wjJC3fCMyWza9gqHW-4qeyTQkvhMIfl5u8_5I2lM/edit?usp=sharing But to cut… Continue reading
The process of negotiating terms under which we can trade as ‘Community Moorings Scotland’ (or something more snappy) began with their first edition on 5th August and has gone back to them with our edit of 5th October, then back to us with their edit of 10th November. Then they… Continue reading
After weeks of procrastination, Scottish Canals have finally dredged the bank along the length (175m) of Narrowboat Farm! Oh and i’m going to repeatedly call it Narrowboat Farm to try to gt the name to stick! Look at this gorgeous gloop waiting to be shaped into a sumptuous edge: OK,… Continue reading
OK, so how else was i going to make you open an update about paperwork! Click-bait ahoy!!! Does anybody have a particular penchant for paperwork? Please come forward! We have lots to do! If anyone can pop their heads up and say ‘i’ll help with that one’ that would be… Continue reading
So firstly, ‘Narrowboat Farm’ it is! No longer ‘field E of Park Farm’ or ‘Iain’s mud’ or whatever haha! This name reflects the dual-purpose nature of the site, both to moor boats and to create a local food supply. And the link between the two – using the canal for… Continue reading
Early this month myself (Iain Withers) and Alastair Martin met up with Steve Dunlop and Katie Hughes for what we thought may be a crunch meeting revealing the ‘sting in the tail’ of the so-far positive response from SC. I’m happy to report that the cautious optimism about SC’s support… Continue reading
This is the first of the updates on how to help. I’ll put one main post per month and update that regularly as new opportunities arise or are completed… Specific dates/times for help: 9th May: Meeting with Katie Hughes and Steve Dunlop to talk through the Linlithgow site, business plan… Continue reading
After the recent lowland users meeting a group of us went to have a wee gander and get an update on progress at ‘the field’ or as Davie refers to it as the ‘Ponderosa’ which is a reference to this. I think Davie has grand ideas of the land!!! Anyway,… Continue reading
