Minginish Community Hall

07/04/2026

📢 We’re recruiting: Community Housing Project Officer (Freelance, 0.6 FTE) 📢

Minginish Community Association is looking for an experienced and motivated Community Housing Project Officer to help deliver an important community-led housing project in Portnalong.

This is a 36-month freelance contract primarily focused on supporting the project through planning/consents, financing, appointment of contractor, construction and allocation of housing.

➡ Fee: £40,000 pro rata (£24,000 per annum equivalent at 0.6 FTE)
➡ Location: Remote working, with the possibility of hybrid working. Some travel to Minginish, Isle of Skye will be required

We’re looking for someone with strong project management experience, ideally in housing, construction, community-led development or similar and a good track record in fundraising/financing.

This is a unique opportunity to help deliver much-needed community housing and make a lasting difference in a rural and island community.

📩 For more information or to apply: [email protected]
📅 Closing date: 8th May 2026

This post is supported by Highlands and Islands Enterprise

19/01/2026

If you missed your chance to see the community housing plans at the hall at the end of November, we have put the plans up on the wall in Arnaval room for people to have a look at. If you are in the hall for any of the groups, please have a wee look. There are feedback forms too and we'd be really grateful if you could fill one in to let us know what you think. If you won't get a chance to have a look at the hall, and you are a Minginish resident - please contact me on [email protected] (Dawn) and I can email you the documents.

19/01/2026

And our final joint winner of our Minginish Creative Competition is the brilliant "Message in a bottle". We love it! Thanks to Greg (Jock Scot) for sending it to us.

Message In The Bottle

Ah've been kickin conversations wae cattle
through the gaps in the timber
babblin oan aboot babblin brooks n
the way the pines sway like belly dancers when the gusts gather

Ah've been eavesdroppin oan carrions
squawkin squabbles aboot
how the hoodies are harbourin aw the council nests n
that the magpies are jostlin jewellery oan the sly again

Ah've been push pedallin against waves ay wind

wae hamster legs goan full tilt through treacle n toffee
as ah belt the baritone in defiance n
hit harmonies wae the howls

Ah've been standin sponge in tantalisin torrentials
soakin up the spirit ay it aw
seepin streams fae the river beds beneath mah skin as
ah’m moved by the motion ay the molecules

Ah've been message in the bottle fir many a moon now but
the tides huv turned in mah favour n
ah've drifted buoy blissfully n
washed up oan a western isle wae a note that reads

“ah um hame”

Greg Robertson, aka Jock Scot

09/12/2025

Over the Bridge Films is a Skye (and Minginish) based production company. This documentary focuses on music and community on the Isle of Skye and much of the filming was done in Minginish. There are interviews with Donnie Munro, Peter Morrison and Ruairidh Graham and live performances at Celtic Connections, Skye Live, and a session hosted by Noah Scott.

Have a wee look at the video below to learn more (and how you can help!), and to get a sneak preview of what you can expect to see in the film.

We can't wait to see the final film, which will be shown in Minginish Community Hall early in 2026 🥳

Preserve Skye’s Musical Soul for Generations. Having filmed for 3 years we need your help to finish postproduction. Be Part of the Story!

05/12/2025

Highland Council has launched a survey to understand housing needs in the Highlands. The results will help the Council plan for new housing and housing services. This is an opportunity for local communities like Minginish to be represented.

The survey shouldn't take more than 10 minutes - please complete it if you can. If we can demonstrate that more housing is needed in Minginish, we can use this to push for more housing and we can keep more of our young people and families.

05/12/2025

Huge congratulations to Mandy Curry on her winning entries for the Minginish Creative Competition - her really beautiful paintings of Portnalong Jetty and Fiskavaig Bay 😍

02/12/2025

Minginish Community Association is delighted to announce the winners of the creative competition that was run as part of the Minginish Community Action Plan.
Joint winners - Niki Maclean, Greg Robertson, Mandy Curry.
The winners will each receive a £35 Carbost Community Shop voucher. To arrange this the winners can contact Dawn at [email protected]
Niki's fabulous poem -

21/11/2025

14/11/2025

NOTICE OF AGM

Minginish Community Association will be holding its AGM at Minginish Community Hall on Saturday 29th November at 1.30pm.
All are warmly welcome to come along to hear about what MCA has been doing this past year and our plans for the coming year.

🏠 Community housing project 🏠
We'll be sharing with the community draft plans for the community housing project. Jamie and Edward, our architects, will be coming along to show the plans so far, to ask people’s opinions about them, so that the community can help to make the housing the best it can be for Minginish!

📋 Community Development Plan 📋
We are also hoping to present the “Minginish Community Action Plan”. This is the result of 12 months of speaking to the community to seek your views - what is good in Minginish and what we, coming together as a community, could do in the future to improve the place we live.

https://minginishhall.co.uk/news.html

11/11/2025

The floor in the minginish polytunnel has been concreted today. The concrete needs five days to dry out. Please do not enter the polytunnel until Monday 17th earliest to give it the chance to dry nice and smooth. The entrance is taped off for now. Thank you 😊

04/11/2025

📣Your community needs you📣

⚠️ Minginish Community Association are desperately looking for new volunteers to help at the hall ⚠️

We don't need a lot of your time but we do need some new volunteers, lots of our brilliant volunteers have been involved for many years and can't do as many things, physically, as they used to. We know people would like to see more events and classes at the hall (we'd all like to see that) but at the moment we are really struggling to find enough people to do the small but really important things at the hall to ensure that everything is compliant, in terms of health and safety🧯. If we can't do those core things, we will be in danger of having to close the hall doors.

If you have an hour every now and again and would like to help out in your community - please get in touch, we'd really love to hear from you. And please share this with others in the community 🤞

(You can message here or contact Dawn, the project officer, on 07810446660)