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21/4/2022
Bill Out In Watten TodayThumbnail for article : Bill Out In Watten Today
A beautiful day for walking round on the campaign trail..  
20/4/2022
Bill On The Campaign Trail Berriedale to DunbeathThumbnail for article : Bill On The Campaign Trail Berriedale to Dunbeath
Thanks to everyone for their time today on the road from Berriedale to Dunbeath.   If elected I will take up the issues related today.  
19/4/2022
John O'Groats - Photos from Bill's Campaign TrailThumbnail for article : John O'Groats  - Photos from Bill's Campaign Trail
Promoting Caithness was always part of what I have done on the web site for 22 years.   Doing more things at the same time can get more achieved if you think it out.  
14/4/2022
Volunteer Recruitment Drop-In Event
Do you need to recruit new Volunteers For your organisation? CVG are organising a drop-in event in Multitown Peoples Project on Wednesday 4th May.   This is an opportunity for you to come along in person and or send in leaflets and information about your volunteering opportunities.  
13/4/2022
Drop In And Make A Wildflower MeadowThumbnail for article : Drop In And Make A Wildflower Meadow
Thursday 14 April at wick Riverside..  
12/4/2022
Highlife Wildlife Projects Stepping Up For SpringThumbnail for article : Highlife Wildlife Projects Stepping Up For Spring
Spring is in the air and while birds start to think of nesting and queen bumblebees are waking up from a long winter sleep, the High Life Highland Countryside Rangers have been busy.   Throughout the Highlands, the Rangers have been working with local communities on a wide range of wildlife projects including building nest boxes, managing sites for bumblebees, and planting wildflowers for butterflies and other pollinators.  
11/4/2022
Funding Information Event
Tuesday 26th April, 10am-noon and 1.30pm-3.30pm.   Pulteney Centre, Wick.  
10/4/2022
Caithness Model Club Show 2022Thumbnail for article : Caithness Model Club Show 2022
See photo gallery link..  
10/4/2022
Elise Lyall Fun Day PhotosThumbnail for article : Elise Lyall Fun Day Photos
See gallery link..  
Volunteers Needed For New ProjectsThumbnail for article : Volunteers Needed For New Projects
We are looking to boost our volunteer members.  Our success in delivering groups and clubs here at the centre has always been enhanced by the life skills and knowledge of our volunteers.  
7/4/2022
Highland communities get behind Stress Awareness Month
Highland communities get behind Stress Awareness Month In partnership with the Highland Community Planning Partnership Highland Community Planning Partnership supports Stress Awareness Month and encourages communities across Highland to continue to play their part in the ‘Community' based theme throughout the month of April.   Stress Awareness Month is held each year in the month of April to raise awareness of the causes and cures for our modern stress epidemic.  
4/4/2022
Dounreay Communities Fund - Closing Dates For Applications
How to apply Read the following guidance notes.  Once you have read through and decided that the Dounreay Communities Fund can assist your project, you need to apply by completing the small grant online application form It is for an applicant to complete the online application form; however a step by step guide is available at the end of this document.  
4/4/2022
Castletown Heritage Society's AGM - 26 AprilThumbnail for article : Castletown Heritage Society's AGM - 26 April
Castletown Heritage Society's AGM to be held on Tuesday 26th April at 7:30 PM.   This will be our first in person meeting since 2019 so we hope that you will be able to come.  
4/4/2022
How To Use The Free Funding Finder DatabaseThumbnail for article : How To Use The Free Funding Finder Database
The free Funding Finder database isn't just a funder database, but one that connects you to 100s of other free funding databases and online funder lists, giving you click through to a huge range of funders.   It's updated weekly, also includes Covid and core funders, and has 50 of its own downloadable funder lists.  
4/4/2022
How To Fund Your Charity's Digital StrategyThumbnail for article : How To Fund Your Charity's Digital Strategy
This video was the presentation to the Charity Digital Summit.  It looks at how and where to identify suitable tech funders, how to package your bid to reach other funders and how to ensure you maximise the likliehood of your bid being successful.  
4/4/2022
How To Engage Trustees In Fundraising: Trustee ResponsibilitiesThumbnail for article : How To Engage Trustees In Fundraising: Trustee Responsibilities
This 1st of 2 videos enables charity trustees to understand their fundraising role and specific regulatory responsibilities for fundraising, and how to do that.   The 2nd gives them 20 ways in which they can become actively involved in doing so and enjoy themselves doing that.  
4/4/2022
20 Ways For Trustees To Support FundraisingThumbnail for article : 20 Ways For Trustees To Support Fundraising
This 2nd of 2 videos provides trustees with 20+ ways in which they can become activly involved in supporting their charity's fundraising and enjoy themselves whilst doing so.   You can find a written version on the Chaeity Excellence Resource Hub - https://www.charityexcellence.co.uk/Home/BlogDetail?Link=20way_To_Engage_Charity_Trustees_In_Fundraising.  
3/4/2022
Wick Players - Christmas Panto MeetingThumbnail for article : Wick Players - Christmas Panto Meeting
See poster for details..  
31/3/2022
SSEN Encourages Applications For Its £1m Resilient Communities FundThumbnail for article : SSEN Encourages Applications For Its £1m Resilient Communities Fund
With this year's funding pot increased to £1m, SSEN is urging communities across the north of Scotland to submit their applications for the latest round of its Resilient Communities Fund (RCF).   The aim of the fund is to help communities become more resilient in the face of severe weather events and prolonged power interruptions and, following the severe storms which battered the country this winter, SSEN has increased the total amount available in the north of Scotland in 2022 to £1m.  
31/3/2022
Countryside Rangers Support Highland Carers - Walks
High Life Highland is working with a charity that supports carers to help them improve their health and wellbeing.   Over a million people in Scotland care for someone else and in 2018 it was estimated around 32,000 people in Highland provide unpaid care.