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High Life Highland calls on local heroes as it announces partnership with local children’s charity

  High Life Highland is delighted to announce its new partnership with children’s charity Safe Strong and Free. The partnership announcement comes as Safe Strong and Free embarks on its 2023 Highland Heroes campaign, which aims to raise awareness for the work the Highland-registered charity undertakes across the Highlands and beyond. Speaking about the new… Read more »Read more

Alness Leisure extending swimming pool opening hours during school holidays

Alness Leisure will be extending its opening hours from Friday 30th June to Friday 11th August every Monday through to Thursday. New opening hours will include the halls, pitches, and swimming pool. The centre offers lessons and sessions to keep families and children entertained, plus the pool’s six lane competition-style layout makes the experience a… Read more »Read more

Outlander Day is ‘set’ to be a success at Highland Folk Museum

This year, ‘Outlander Day’ will be taking place from 11am to 4pm on Saturday 10th June at the Highland Folk Museum. Based on the popular books by Diana Gabaldon, the 2014 series ‘Outlander’ has built a mass following, with many fans visiting the mile-long Highland Folk Museum to take in the sights and locations used… Read more »Read more

Get to know Inverness Leisure Centre at this month’s Open Day

If you have been looking for motivation to get your workout routine going, the team at High Life Highland is offering you the chance: Inverness Leisure Centre will be hosting an Open Day on Sunday 11th June 2023 where members of the public are invited to come along and try out the facilities at no… Read more »Read more

New podcast explores Highlands and Islands stories

This month sees the launch of a new podcast ‘Spirit: Discovering the Highlands and Islands’ exploring all aspects of life across the Highlands and Islands. In the four-part series people who live and work in the Highlands and Islands talk about the ‘spirit’ of the area from their own perspective. Interviews were carried out in… Read more »Read more

Inverness Botanic Gardens a “tapestry of colour” in preparation for hanging basket delivery

With summer fast approaching, the team at High Life Highland’s Inverness Botanic Gardens has been hard at work to grow and curate over 1000 hanging flower baskets for display all over the Highlands. Many of the hanging baskets are bespoke to match the requirements of local businesses, to keep consistent with their own branding. Ewan… Read more »Read more

Create your own journey around the Highlands and Islands

This week, the digital team on the Spirit of the Highlands and Islands project have launched a new feature on the website (discoverhighlandsandislands.scot) that allows people to build custom journeys, from already curated itineraries, or to create new ones from scratch, from over one hundred locations across the Highlands and Islands. Suggested itineraries are based… Read more »Read more

Inverness Castle transformation – project update

Wednesday, 31 May, will see the first deployment of a crane at Inverness Castle, which will be on-site to install structural steelwork and mechanical plant within the existing roof spaces of the former prison building, referred to as the North Tower. The crane will be on site for one full day and will allow for… Read more »Read more

Culloden community comes together to launch new Mind Hub wellbeing series

According to the Scottish Government, one third of the population is estimated to experience mental health conditions, highlighting an urgent need for wellbeing support nationwide. High Life Highland is proud to have launched the Culloden Mind Hub, a weekly community café designed to reduce isolation and loneliness associated with poor mental health by offering a… Read more »Read more

‘Beating Retreat’ is set to be a multi-sensory marvel at Inverness Leisure this weekend

High Life Highland’s ‘Highland Young Musicians’ will be performing a spectacular ‘Beating Retreat’ at Inverness Leisure on Sunday 4th June, with doors opening at 3pm sharp. ‘Beating Retreat’ is an iconic military parade dating back to the 1690s. The beating of the drum was originally used to order troops to break off fighting and withdraw,… Read more »Read more