{"id":9545,"date":"2009-09-08T16:33:06","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T16:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/about-2\/"},"modified":"2024-07-03T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2024-07-03T10:45:17","slug":"about-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/staging.tireetrust.org.uk\/gd\/about-2\/","title":{"rendered":"About Us"},"content":{"rendered":"

Urras Thiriodh, or Tiree Community Development Trust, is a charitable organisation set up to work towards long-term sustainable community development goals. We do our best to address vital service needs and to improve the lives of the people who live here. We are community-led and run by an elected board of Tiree permanent residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

You will find our office based within the Island Centre, Crossapol. Our office includes a public visitor information point, with an accessible toilet and baby changing facility open to the public during office hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our mission is to encourage and facilitate the sustainable development of the Isle of Tiree, with due regard to the unique culture, heritage and environment of the Island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

What we do<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Staff<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Phyl Meyer<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Head of Housing & Strategy (Chief Officer)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Kate Bauen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Head of Operations<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Rhoda Meek<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Interim Head of Projects & Comms<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Shari MacKinnon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Finance and Admin Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Augustijn van Gaalen<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Projects Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Emmie Martin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Projects Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Fiona Armstrong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Community Support Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Willie MacKinnon<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Youth Worker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Hayley Douglas<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Ranger<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Inge Armstrong<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Governance & Finance Officer<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Lauren MacArthur<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Operations and Admin Assistant<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Legal Structure<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Tiree Community Development Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee (Company No. SC 292902) and a registered charity (Scottish Charity No. SC 037018). We also operate as Parent of a Company Group containing four subsidiary trading companies wholly owned by us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Directors<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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All of our elected Board directors must be residents of Tiree and this ensures the we are led with the community interests at the heart of everything we do. We can choose to co-opt Directors who are not resident, but who have skills and expertise that we feel are important.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our current board are: Fiona Malcom, John Bowler, Neil MacPhail, Christine MacArthur, Ronnie Baird, Matthew MacDowell, Martin Finnegan.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

Assets and Subsiduaries<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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Currently we own 8 community assets including; a wind turbine, 2 harbours, a shop, an electric minibus, an art installation, 4 business units and a filling station.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have 4 wholly owned subsiduaries. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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TREL run our turbine. She generates revenue to support community projects.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TREL<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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TCEL runs the community fuel station and the business units, which opened in 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCEL<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Tiree Broadband uses shortwave radio dishes to send broadband round the island.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Broadband<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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TCMAL owns Scarinish Harbour, Milton Harbour and 12 moorings for visiting yachts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

TCMAL<\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n
Our Approach<\/span><\/span><\/div>
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One of the key learning points over the early years of our development has been the importance of communication.  Communication is vital to the Trust achieving its vision and for the Tiree community and we take our responsibility for this very seriously . It would be very useful if we could have some constructive feedback on what is working and what you feel we need to improve.  So please support, guide and help us to build a solid foundation for Tiree to embrace the changes, opportunities and developments it faces.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Our Terms of Engagement are<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n

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  • To be inclusive for the whole Community<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • We will endeavour to acknowledge your communication within 3 working days.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  • Our key communication channels are regular updates in An Tirisdeach, public meetings in Tiree, our office and our website.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n

    We welcome your questions and constructive feedback but please respect that we are a small, very busy team. Communication is a two way process and we aim for an inclusive approach to enable us to inform the community on Tiree. In all of our communications we will endeavour to be<\/p>\n\n\n

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    • respectful<\/li>\n\n\n\n
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    • professional<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n

      and we feel that it is reasonable to expect the same of those corresponding with us.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>