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Council budget consultation open til December 19th
Realigning the level of teaching resource across North Ayrshire schools Reducing Pupil Support Assistant hours to align with pupil rolls in mainstream schools Increasing charges at Arran Outdoor Education Centre Streamlining the…
Protest in Harmony singing group starts on Arran
An offshoot of Protest in Harmony is starting on Arran!
Arran Community Benefit Society
Arran Community Benefit Society – Public Meeting Update Following development of the idea through the Arran Island Plan and subsequent meetings, a group of islanders held a public meeting on Wednesday November…
Prototype Dwelling Demonstrates Affordable Housing Alternative
A prototype sustainable dwelling is nearing completion on Arran, demonstrating that comfortable, healthy homes can be built affordably using local materials and simple construction methods. The 7.5m x 5m timber-frame structure uses…
Woodland Crofting Project: Dùthchas Arainn CBS Launches Share Offer
Dùthchas Arainn Community Benefit Society has launched a community share offer to fund a feasibility study for Arran's first woodland crofting community. The project aims to establish new crofts through Community Asset…
Britain becomes world’s largest economy to end new oil and gas exploration
By Phil Richards at Greenpeace UK, November 26th 2025. Featured image credit: Greenpeace UK Commenting on the government’s North Sea Future Plan, in which it has confirmed that no more licences for…
Circular Economy Strategy open for consultation
The Scottish Government has published its draft circular economy strategy and it is open for consultation until 13th January 2026. This new strategy has the potential to make the way we use…
Notes from The Arran Naturalist
The Arran Naturalist, Journal of the Arran Natural History Society, Issue 12 (1989)
Echoes and Whispers
Audio-visual artist Claire Todd introduces a new bat-based collaboration with Stephen Rutt. Published on Caught by the River, 27th November 2025. Bats are strange mammals. They live their lives as a shadow…
Have your say on the future of Montrose House
CALL TO ACTION!
Events in December
Arran Natural History Society talk Ross Miller Trio Concert Winter Farmer’s Market Corrie Film Club Arran's Christmas Pantomime – Treasure Island Christmas at the Castle
Why environmentalists should care about tax
18th November 2025 Imagine living in a society in which polluters pay the full price of damage to our environment; enough public investment flows into climate change programmes to guarantee that we…