Ness Area Contact:
Dorothy Morrison
Community Co-ordinator
Dell Hall, Ness, Isle of Lewis
Tel / Fax: 01851 810 083
E-mail: d.morrison@cne-siar.gov.uk

Area Information : Ness

Examples of On-going work:

Clan MacQuarry Committee  - Clan MacQuarry Community Centre

Borve

The Clan MacQuarry committee have been working very hard over several years to raise funds to build a new community centre in Borve. The present village hall is over 50 years old and as well as being too small for the community’s requirements, is dilapidated and has reached the end of its useful life. The committee have successfully applied for £201,500 lottery funding as well as £30,000 from Children in Need and various other funding bodies. They are currently working hard to secure the rest of the money that is needed to before work begins.

The committee hope to have the work out to tender by October 06.

The old Borve hall.

Proposed plans for the Clan MacQuarry Community Centre.

 

Ness Community Council - Ness Recycling Initiative

Ness

This project is for the collection of household and garden waste from the elderly and socially excluded in the Ness area. An operative collects from the households once a week and sorts it all for recycling at the Habost Quarry. Part of the project was to make Habost Quarry into a licensed Civic Amenities Site.

This project has been extremely successful and we are actively looking for funding to enable it to continue. Most of the funding for this project came from the INCREASE fund.

 

Community-run Projects in Ness and Borve

Eoropie Dunes Play Park (GAIN committee)	Ness FC Social Club (Managed by a committee)	Loch Stiapabhat nature reserve - the only one in the Western Isles (Set up and managed by the Friends of Loch Stiapabhat committee)
Spors Nis Sports Centre due to be completed by October 06	Carthannas Nis, the Ness Charity Shop (Run entirely by volunteers)	Croileagan Bhuirgh’s new premises (beside the old Borve Hall)
Newly cleared Marina and refurbished Boatshed / changing room (Port of Ness)	The Jubillee (Rrestored by the Falamadair Trust)	Commun Eachdraidh Nis
UOG the Galson Estate Trust offices, manned by the Estate Ranger	The Interpretation Centre at Dell Hall at the start of the Coastal Walk