Highland Well-ness Collective is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to enhancing community well-being through affordable mental health support. Our core mission revolves around ensuring that mental health services are accessible and approachable throughout the Highlands. We aim to foster resilience and positive transformation by reinvesting all profits into providing comprehensive counselling and community projects that support mental well-being.
The Isle Martin Trust manages Isle Martin on behalf of the communities of Lochbroom and Coigach. The island is at present uninhabited but we do run a 3 day a week seasonal ferry service and community groups such as schools, sailing clubs, conservation teams and people interested in the history of the island are regular visitors and the island is a great resource for learning. We have a really interesting ecology and aim to manage it sustainably with tree-planting programmes, coppicing and data collection.
Head | Space Nethy is (sole trader) business, a small co-working space in the woods, just outside Nethy Bridge and serving small businesses and work-from-home employees in the local community.
Accessible Inverness is an aggregated source of events and news for disabled and neurodivergent people in the Inverness area. Accessible Inverness has a specific focus on inclusion advocacy, but also has a broader focus on social justice which necessarily includes climate justice, and as such, I would like to maintain a connection with groups with this focus as well.
Since 1999, our organisation has become one of the most successful Community Transport Schemes in the UK and we recently received wider UK recognition being awarded CTA Provider of the year at the CTA Awards 2023.
We cover the Lochaber area, and provide social media management, email marketing and copy writing services to highland based businesses. We are paper free, wherever possible, and passionate about the environment.
We are new entrants working an eight-acre croft in Skye. Our focus is on low-input food production aimed at local communities, and we hope to work with others to share knowledge and resources.
We are the Grantown Community Centre. We provide Community Services such as a food shed, uniform exchange, Soft Play , Youth clubs and a Community Cafe. We run the community cinema. And we host the SpeyShed. We provide affordable facilities to local groups such as the Guides, yoga, indoor tennis and party options. Where we can, we provide affordable start-up opportunities to local entrepreneurs.
The Kinlochleven Community Trust is a company limited by guarantee with charitable status and a membership body in the village of Kinlochleven in South Lochaber. Through land and facilities management, community development, education, and environmental projects the Trust aims to improve living conditions and opportunities for all in the village and ultimately, tackle inequalities that our village is experiencing (as shown on the SIMD).
VABS supports volunteers and volunteering organisations in Badenoch and Strathspey and quite a few of our members are involved in climate action projects.
Nature 4 Health aims to help people connect with nature, each other and themselves. Experience the mindful benefits of green and blue space and the fascinating species we share the planet with.
We are a zero waste shop on Skye. We started the business with the aim of providing a local option for buying sustainable products. We have aim to provide a wide choice of packaging free foods and plastic free, ethical products.
Charity working to make a sustainable community in remote north west Scotland, tackling depopulation by finding land to build houses on so people can afford to live and work here. We also work to make Coigach a better place to live using money generated from our community-owned wind turbine.
The SCDT was created to advance community development and rural regeneration. It also aims to advance citizenship and education and conservation of the natural environment.
At Ecotone Cabins we want to do tourism that has a positive impact on our local environment and communities. We run a tourism business that promotes and facilitates the regeneration of the land around us and benefits the people who inhabit it. We believe that getting this right on a local scale is the best way for us to contribute on a global scale.