reCAP = Community Action Plan (CAP) refresh

The original Community Action Plan was prepared back in 2021. Its purpose was to guide what we as a community would focus on for five years, including how to best use “community benefit” money we receive from renewable power generation. The CAP had five priorities:

Community life
Getting around
Outdoors and nature
Our homes
Organising ourselves

Over the last five years, local groups have been using the CAP to get things done. Some things have proved challenging or are still in progress - for example, out-of-school childcare, new affordable homes in other villages, and the future of Foyers school. But achievements include:

Six affordable family homes built in Inverfarigaig, including four for rent
Foyers Stores now community-owned and its future secured
Community minibus now running for local events, trips, groups & school
More activities at Foyers Hub and Stratherrick Hall
“Walk the Walk” online guide to 22 local walks
South Loch Ness Trail upgrades
Grants for driving lessons, with good takeup from young people
New playpark at the Wildside Centre

Now, five years on, reCAP is an opportunity to reflect on all of these things - and decide what to keep, what to change, and what else might be needed.

Those questions are for the whole community to explore - because the reCAP must belong to all of us. So, for everyone’s benefit, the Community Trust and the Community Council have got together to facilitate the reCAP. The updated plan will reflect what the community as a whole wants, not simply the Community Trust or the Community Council. So we need your help.

How can I shape the new Plan?

Please complete this short survey.

Everybody who completes the survey can enter a £50 cash prize draw - no strings attached!

It’s also being posted through everyone’s letterbox in Stratherrick and Foyers in early June.

The deadline is 30 June.

Then we’ll publish the responses and organise community conversations so that everyone can explore the priorities that the refreshed Community Action Plan - reCAP - should focus on. Everybody will be welcome.

Later in the year, a draft of the refreshed Community Action Plan will be published for everyone to review, before finalising it to take account of feedback.

The small print

This work is being facilitated by the Community Trust and the Community Council, and funded by DTAS (Development Trusts Association Scotland). The funding has enabled us to bring in the independent facilitator/planner who helped to prepare the 2021 Community Action Plan and 2023 Local Place Plan, Nick Wright.

If you’d like to find out more about the work, please don’t hesitate to contact Nick: nick@nickwrightplanning.co.uk, 07900 334110.

Stratherrick & Foyers Community Trust,
The Wildside Centre, Whitebridge,
Inverness IV2 6UN
admin@sfctrust.org.uk
07300 562443

Mission statement: To act to enhance the quality of lives of people by engaging with the issues that matter to the community and by supporting people, at a sustainable level, to help people make things happen.

Thanks: Many thanks to our funders for making this site possible - SSE Renewables, Greencoat UK Wind, Green Highland Allt Luaidhe (228) Limited, Easter Aberchalder Partnership. Also the Trust extends its heartfelt thanks to all the community volunteers who have contributed ideas and content to the site.

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