http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/rssnews.asp Ardross Community Woodland | News Tim Dearman was elected chairman at the public meeting last night.  The board was further complemented by the election of Pete Carr, Morvern Dyson, and Howard Tolliday.  Matt Stevenson graci http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=12434 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=12434 18 November 2008 Today we met with Forestry Commission representatives Tim Cockerill (Dornoch district manager) and Malcolm Wield (NFLS programme manager) to discuss our plans to apply to buy Inchlumpie wood. We upda http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11929 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11929 13 October 2008 The Big Lottery Fund has agreed to consider our bid for funding - our 'Outline Planning Form' succeeded in convincing their evaluators that our project is worth further consideration. http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11927 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11927 01 September 2008 We have submitted the first stage of our bid to the Big Lottery Fund for support with buyng Inchmlumpie wood from the Forestry Commission. The 'Outline Planning Form' is used by BLF to screen applica http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11926 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11926 30 July 2008 The solicitor handling the formation of the Ardross Community Woodland Company has informed us that we're official - the company was registered on the 10th of July. We are now able to bid for funding http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11925 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11925 22 July 2008 The ballot results have been totted up and the majority (64%) of the half of the community who returned their papers support us in setting up community woodland in Ardross. Inchlumpie is the favoured http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11924 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=11924 29 March 2008 On the 24th January, we sent out Ballot papers to all residents of the community aged 18 and over. The intention is to assess the support within the community for aquiring a community woodland. We are http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=7173 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=7173 25 January 2008 Anthony Chamier has stood down as vice-chair of the committee. We are extremely grateful for all his efforts in progressing the project thus far and regret the loss of his energetic, measured and dipl http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5916 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5916 17 October 2007 On Monday 15th October, the ACWSC held a public meeting at which Chair Jeremy Spurway presented a recap of the process to date, and then discussed in detail the outcome of the Options Appraisal report http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5913 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5913 17 October 2007 A public Meeting will be held at 8pm on Monday 15th October 2007 at Ardross Hall. This will allow the Ardross Community Woodland Sub-Committee the opportunity to present the Options Appraisal Report, http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5291 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5291 31 August 2007 A package is currently being prepared to send out to every household in the community. This will contain a copy of the main report prepared by the consultants and a flyer summarising the process so fa http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5290 http://www.ardrosscommunitywoodland.org/news.asp?id=5290 31 August 2007