Author Archive | Peigi MacLean

The Garadh is currently closed to the public as part of the COVID19 restrictions but as food producers, staff are taking turns to keep things going. Individuals work in isolation, in our own areas and with strict bio-security standards. WE are looking to grow a lot of edible crops this year. We don’t know how […]

Everyone at the Garadh has been saddened by the death of dear Martha MacDonald. She was the first volunteer to get involved when the service started in 1995 with permission to dig up the Taigh Ceilidh garden and grow potatoes for the Adult Learners and Alzheimer’s groups which met there. The first job was to […]

Huge thanks to everyone who came along to our Indoor Car Boot Sale on Saturday in Castebay community School. We were delighted to raise £602. Thanks to all the people manning the array of stalls, to everyone who made up the sandwiches, baked the cakes, poured the teas and coffees and as always our lovely […]

Garadh a Bagh a tuath has been honoured with the Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service, the higest award a voluntary group can receive in the UK. Garadh a’ Bhàgh a Tuath are one of only 24 organisations from across Scotland to be awarded the prestigious Queen’s Award this year and have been awarded it for providing […]

On Saturday 4th May we headed to Clachan for our annual plant sale day on North Usit and what a day we had!  People were waiting for us to arrive and we sold loads of our lovely planters, shrubs and a whole variety of bedding plants.  Our sales were up on last year by over […]

The big metal storage containers have arrived on site and work has started on the space between them.  Last Friday, volunteers built the initial framework and diggers arrived today to lay the concrete.  All this work was made possible by the funding we were awarded this year from the Youth Philanthropy Fund.  The Castlebay Community […]

Good news, the Thursday café is back. Thursday 17th January will be  the first café of 2019. There will be home made soups, toasties with a variety of fillings, ploughman’s lunch and of course our selection of home baking. We look forward to seeing you there 🙂  

We have some amazing news to share with you regarding our lottery application….click on the link below and all will be revealed…. Press Release   We are all absolutely delighted with this news, a lot of hard work has been put into this application and thankfully it has paid off. A huge well done to everyone […]

Happy new year to everyone. Hope you all had a great Christmas and New Year. Our café re-opens tomorrow, 11th January. Our soups this week will be carrot and coriander and leek and potato,  there will also  be the usual toasties and home baking available too. We look forward to seeing you all there 🙂 […]

On Thursday night we held our Christmas party night. It was a huge success, there was lovely food, drink, singing and dancing with music from two of Barra’s young, talented  musicians, Ceilan and Andrerw MacNeil.  We like to say a huge thank you to all our volunteers who helped with all the preparations and on the […]