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EIGG’S LATEST NEWS….
EIGG WINS GLENFIDDICH SPIRIT OF SCOTLAND AWARD
Thank you, to everyone who voted for us – on Thursday evening, the Isle of Eigg Heritage Trust won the Environment category of the Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards.
This is the 13th year of the Awards, so it felt somewhat fitting that 2010 marked 13 years since the community buy out of our island. What a lot has changed in those 13 years. Without the hard work, vision, stamina and determination of many people, on and off the island, Eigg Electric and all the other ‘green’ projects that brought us the nomination in the first place would not have been possible.
It was an amazing feeling to win the Spirit of Scotland Award. This time there were no judges, no questions to answer, no reports to write; simply the good wishes and appreciation of people who had taken the time to recognise what we’ve achieved by registering their vote. So thank you for voting for us. Your belief in what we’ve done, and will continue to do, means a lot.
EIGG WINS PRIZE
Eigg won joint 1st prize in the Big Green Challenge competition run by NESTA. In January the 13th 2010 it was announced at an awards ceremony in London that Isle of Eigg, Green Valley’s in the Brecon Beacons and the Household Energy Services in Ludlow all won joint 1st prize of £300,000 each and a runner up prize of £100,000 was awarded to Low Carbon West Oxford. You can watch the award ceremony by clicking HERE
INTERNATIONAL VISITORS
On Monday 25th May Eigg welcomed IADB visitors from Ecuador, The Galapagos Islands, Canada, the Caribbean and their UK offices. More about their visit, here.
BIG GREEN VISIT!
On Wednesday 20th May, Rebecca Willis, our Big Green Challenge judge, came to visit. A packed programme of visits to Eigg Primary School, to Laig Farmhouse to see insulation being installed, to Eigg Electric and then to the community hall to meet the Green Team of Eigg volunteers and find out about all we’re doing here on Eigg to reduce CO2 went well!
“I wanted to say a huge thankyou to you and all the Eigg team for being lovely hosts yesterday. It was fascinating and inspiring to find out what you are up to, and to see the incredible level of commitment and enthusiasm from all of you.”
It was great to be able to show what we’ve achieved so far… its easy to forget sometimes what we’ve done when we’re still in the middle of so much. So thanks Becky for a great day all round.
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had a great time there in Eigg , fantastic
Gaz
Good Morning,
Just returned from Arisaig.
We visited Eigg on 13/8/10 Absolutely beautiful
My first viswit was in July-August 1970 as a 12 year old, the singing sands were and still are awe inspiring.
We spent two weeks on the island with our local museum club. Much has changed in 40 years, I remember going to a kaili dance at the lodge on the last night, visited the old shop which in 1970 was very basic, our campsite was`nt far from the jettie where boat ferries used to run twice a week, there was one tractor and one car on the island then. I hope to visit more often now and would love to be able to buy a house on Eigg.
I have just spent an amazing two days on the island with some of the local community and the school.
A large number of potential projects are entered for the Big Green Challenge but in my view here for the first time is a communityty who not only lives this lifestyle but its whole survival would collapes without this comittment.
Many of the others are admirable but they do not I feel show the true potential of the effects. Here is a community whose total vaules demsonstrate a real situation.
They well deserve their place in this competition and I for one whould be happy to see them rewarded for all their hard work
Ian