Most of you will remember the Island Futures Charrette workshops that took place last year, facilitated by Ironside Farrar Ltd. A variety of public meetings and workshops were carried out and attended by the community who were encouraged to input into the process. The results from the Charrette were presented to The Trust in the…

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We are delighted to report that Tiree Broadband, which is owned by Tiree Community Development Trust (TCDT), last week received confirmation of a successful application to Community Broadband Scotland for £80,000 to upgrade the current Tiree Broadband Network. The planned upgrade will allow them to take full advantage of their new Fibre Optic backhaul. It will…

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Tiree Trust are delighted to introduce Tiree’s new ranger, Stephanie Cope. Stephanie took up the pos ition at the beginning of this week and will be using the coming weeks to get up to speed with the project and familiarise herself with the island. Stephanie has spent the last 4 year’s working as a ranger…

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Mark Walker Armstrong 1968 – 2016 It is with great sadness that we report the death of Mark Armstrong of Balemartine, Isle of Tiree, who passed away at home surrounded by his family on Saturday 17th December following a brave battle with cancer.  Mark served as a director of Tiree Community Development Trust from 2011 until 2013 and his dry wit…

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This year we took a new approach to the traditional real Christmas tree, which hasn’t fared well in recent years, up against Tiree’s famous strong winds! We enlisted the help and expertise of Cameron Smith who came up with the idea of building a structure from scratch! Cameron spent a great deal of time investigating…

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Tiree Broadband is hoping to upgrade its network to be able to offer faster broadband services to those households and businesses on Tiree beyond the reach of fast broadband through the telephone network. The arrival of fibre to Tiree has allowed Tiree Broadband to investigate upgrade opportunities that weren’t available to us before super fast…

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Going with the trend of the last few years, The Community Bonfire and Firework display went ahead a day earlier than planned! The unpredictable Tiree weather had us in a predicament for a few days but we finally decided to go with Friday the 4th of November as the day for the event! As usual…

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