Loch Insh Old Kirk

23/03/2026

Last few hours remaining, just £500 short of our stretch target. If you have been meaning to donate now is the time!

The countdown is on! Help us fund the legal groundwork so we can buy the Old Kirk by the 2026 deadline!

16/03/2026

LAST PUSH - Please help us reach our target we only have 6 days left!

Huge thank you to everyone who has donated and shared so far, we are SO close!

The countdown is on! Help us fund the legal groundwork so we can buy the Old Kirk by the 2026 deadline!

05/03/2026

Please help us and share - we are so close to our Phase 1 target!

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saving-loch-insh-old-kirk---foundations-fund

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The countdown is on! Help us fund the legal groundwork so we can buy the Old Kirk by the 2026 deadline!

16/02/2026

This is the lovely little church in my home village in the Highlands of Scotland.

An ancient site of faith, its past is rich with stories - Celtic monks, a flying bell, worshipful swans - but its future is precarious.

Read more about Loch Insh Old Kirk in my piece for the Guardian Country Diary today and follow the link there if you would like to help us save this treasured place.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/country-diary-echoes-of-iona-at-this-tiny-precious-church

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26/01/2026

WE ARE LIVE AND NEED YOUR HELP!

Before we can purchase our beautiful Kirk we need to raise funds for the boring but necessary administrative costs. We have identified funders to help us once we own the Kirk but we need your support and networks to get us to that point!

You can help now by donating to our Crowdfunder and sharing amongst your networks. Every penny really does make a difference. THANK YOU for the enthusiasm to date, this isn't a project without you.

https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/saving-loch-insh-old-kirk---foundations-fund

The countdown is on! Help us fund the legal groundwork so we can buy the Old Kirk by the 2026 deadline.

04/12/2025

Hi everyone! We are gathering feedback from the community about the future of our little white church above Loch Insh. We are keen to hear from locals and others with close connections to it, so would be very grateful if you could take a few minutes to fill out this survey for us, please. It needs to be done by Tuesday 9th of December. Thank you!

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25/07/2025

Lovely to hear Newtonmore local, Nicole Dempster, reporting on the Loch Insh Old Kirk project for BBC Naidheachdan. There are also small segments from James Dryburgh, of Aviemore and Sweden, and Merryn Glover, of Kincraig and Australia.

Tha deasbad a' dol ann am Bàideanach an dràsta mu na tha dàn do dh'eaglais Innis ann an sgìre Cheann na Creige.

21/07/2025

We're in the Strathy! "Community's vision for kirk"

Thanks to our local Kincraig resident journalist, Tom Ramage, for attending our Community Vision Event and reporting on it for the local paper.

You can read the full article here: https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/badenoch-congregation-aiming-to-take-over-kirk-from-church-o-386892/

If you didn't manage to attend on the day but would like to share your ideas for the development of this beautiful site, then do get in touch via the comments or on [email protected]

You can also sign up to be a friend or member of the new SCIO at this link here: https://forms.gle/r3DD4sAJdGnufhzp7



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15/07/2025

Guess who dropped into Loch Insh Old Kirk just when BBC ALBA were here to film yesterday? None other than James and Maggan Dryburgh who were married here many moons ago. They met through international curling competitions and now live in Maggan's native Sweden. James grew up in Aviemore and went to Kingussie High School, same as reporter Nicole Webber Dempster, so there was much chat and name dropping!

The Dryburghs come back to Aviemore with their children every year and always visit the old kirk where they made their sacred vows. James kindly talked to camera about why they chose to be married here and why they keep coming back.

Check out the news on BBC Alba soon to see the story and learn more about our community buy-out plan. It helps if you speak Gaelic, but James and Merryn Glover Appleby speak in English, so you should be able to follow that bit!



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