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In 2022-23 Shapinsay Renewables Ltd., which operates the wind turbine, made a gift aid payment of just under £134,000 to the development trust. In both 2022 and 2023 the Development Trust received funding to develop affordable rental housing on the island and in 2023 they also opened a newly refurbished heritage centre and cafe.
The Rural Development Council was an advisory body to the Scottish Cabinet Secretary for Rural Affairs and the Environment, Richard Lochhead MSP. Its members include: Barbara Kelly; Donald MacRae of the Bank of Scotland; Stuart Housden, the Director of RSPB Scotland; Derek Logie of the Rural Housing Service; Liberal Democrat Councillor Alison ...
Development trust. Development trusts are organisations operating in the United Kingdom that are: community based, owned and led. engaged in the economic, environmental and social regeneration of a defined area or community. independent but seek to work in partnership with other private, voluntary, and public sector organisations.
Balfour is a village on the island of Shapinsay, Orkney. The village is situated on Elwick Bay, which was used as an anchorage by Haakon IV of Norway before sailing south to eventual defeat at the Battle of Largs in 1263. [1] Today, the village still possesses a harbour, with mock defensive walls constructed at the same time as the castle.
Upload another image Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound 59°01′54″N 2°55′00″W / 59.031704°N 2.916772°W / 59.031704; -2.916772 (Balfour Castle (With Garden Gateway) Sound) Category A 18615 Upload another image Balfour Castle Doocot, 59°01′47″N 2°54′36″W / 59.029614°N 2.910097°W / 59.029614; -2.910097 (Balfour Castle Doocot ...
Notified: Lurker (last edit was 2008), Ben MacDui, WikiProject Scotland, WikiProject Scottish Islands, WikiProject UK geography, WikiProject Islands, 2023-11-01 I am nominating this featured article for review because of uncited passages and the article has not been updated with much post-2008 information.
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Castle Bloody is a prehistoric feature on the island of Shapinsay, Orkney, Scotland. Hogan observes that while the feature is marked as a chambered mound [1] on the UK Ordnance Survey map, the structure is more properly and specifically classified as a souterrain or earth house. [2] Slightly to the north is located the ruined historic Linton ...