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Inverness Museum and Highland Folk Museum joins The Wild Escape, the largest ever collaboration between UK museums

High Life Highland’s Inverness Museum & Art Gallery, Highland Folk Museum and Countryside Rangers have joined The Wild Escape, a major new project uniting hundreds of museums with schools and families to find nature in museums.  Led by national art charity Art Fund and with support from Arts Council England, hundreds of museums, galleries and… Read more »Read more

Alness youth elected to top post in Scottish Youth Parliament

Mollie McGoran, a young person from Alness said she was “absolutely delighted” to have been elected as Chair of the Scottish Youth Parliament. The members of the Scottish Youth Parliament, and her peers, recently voted Mollie McGoran, a Member of the Scottish Youth Parliament (MSYP) for Inverness and Nairn, Highland as their new Chair of… Read more »Read more

Leisure Link Partnership extends to ANGUSalive!

A partnership providing free use of leisure facilities across Scotland – including Highland – will now include access to multiple leisure facilities across the Angus area of Scotland. The Leisure Link Partnership allows highlife card holders to access gym, public swimming and fitness classes at leisure centres across Aberdeen, Argyll and Bute, the Borders, Highland,… Read more »Read more

FIRST MCROBERT CUP RUNS ‘SWIMMINGLY’

The Highland weather wasn’t a friend to the first McRobert Cup since 2019. But despite that, the High Life Highland organised school’s event went swimmingly – almost literally. The event took place at Bught Park, Inverness on the morning of 22nd March. Speaking about the event, Dagmar Borrowman, High Life Highland’s Active Schools Coordinator for… Read more »Read more

East Caithness Community Facility

A spokesperson for High Life Highland has confirmed that the East Caithness Community Facility will remain closed to the public until further notice. The spokesperson said, “The location’s emergency procedures were implemented following a chemical-related incident this morning which resulted in the schools and community and sports facilities being evacuated as a precautionary measure. “Scottish… Read more »Read more

HLH RANGERS SAY IT’S OK TO HAVE A ‘MESSY’ GARDEN

The High Life Highland Rangers team is reaching out to Highland communities seeking individual and family volunteers with an interest in wildlife and the environment to help develop sites for wildlife across the Highlands. HLH’s Rangers are offering workshops and training to support the public in understanding how to manage grasslands and wildflowers, how to… Read more »Read more

High Life Highland welcomes new Board members from finance and education sectors

High Life Highland Vice Chair Michael Golding is delighted to announce the appointment of two new Board members to the organisation’s main charity Board, Roddy Henry and Kerry Ross. The charity’s Board provides extensive experience of public, private and development agency backgrounds which is a perfect complement for the scope of High Life Highland’s work…. Read more »Read more

THE REBIRTH OF ANGUS OG IN SKYE

The team at Skye and Lochalsh Archive is looking forward to the relaunch of a popular cartoon character collection when “The Rebirth of Angus Og” comes to the island’s Staffin Hall on 30th March. Visitors to the event are promised to rediscover the wit, charm and general hilarity of Angus Og. Catherine MacPhee, High Life… Read more »Read more

Badminton Tournament returns for primary pupils

Golspie High School was the venue for the return of the Primary Schools Badminton tournament after an absence of three years. A total of 28 pupils took part in the primary six and primary seven tournament at Golspie High School. Speaking about the event, Elissa Stevenson, High Life Highland’s Active Schools Co-ordinator explained, “Seven schools… Read more »Read more

‘Lost Threads and Severed Ties’ exhibition comes to Inverness Museum and Art Gallery

The team at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery is looking forward to welcoming the artist Mark Lomax to this city centre location on Saturday afternoon (11th March). The artist will be in the city to talk about his exhibition Lost Threads and Severed Ties, which is currently on show in the Main Art Gallery. High… Read more »Read more