North Coast Abattoir?

30/01/2025

For those of you who have not heard the sad news, Essie Coghill died peacefully in her sleep on the 11 January 2025. The funeral took place on Monday, 27 January in Wick. Essie will be very much missed by all in the North Coast Abattoir Group, as she and Morris jointly have been our moving force. Our thoughts are with Morris at this very difficult time for him and his family - and indeed, for us all in this group. We are all very grateful for Essie's efforts and proud that she was our first secretary.

25/10/2024

Our AGM 2024 will take place via Zoom on Monday, 11 November, at 7.00pm. All members (except the one without email!) should have received an invitation by email about two minutes ago. If this hasn't arrived, please message us here and we will send the link that way. Papers will follow fairly soon....

08/01/2024

Happy New Year, everyone. We were delighted to have a phone call early this morning from Zoe Stirton, and later this afternoon received the e-mail below - Zoe is obviously super-keen! We've been talking to Business Energy Scotland on and off for a while now, so it is good to be at the action stage. Support should include advice about getting all the efficiencies we can and reducing our impact as far as possible. There should also be some modest grant potential too.

(Just re-reading the post - we hope no-one thought that the heading on the email meant the whole project was commissioned! Sadly it is just this element of support from Business Energy Scotland, but it is so good to see something moving forwards.)

16/11/2023

Hi, everybody, we are thrilled we are getting so many new views and followers. We may have been quiet but we are not idle, things are happening!

16/07/2023

A busy stand at the Caithness Show - AFTER the rain had stopped.. Thank you to all those who came along to say Hello!

14/07/2023

OK, so who dropped in on Morris and Essie at the Caithness Show?

26/06/2023

Who saw this one?

The North Coast Abattoir Group continues to search for funding to reopen the former Caithness Beef and Lamb plant at Keiss.

22/06/2023

Come along to the stand to hear about the latest developments and let the world know that the community wants to see this abattoir get started!

🟢 TRADE STAND 🟢

The North Coast Abattoir? will be in attendance at this year's Caithness Show to raise awareness of their project with farmers, crofters, livestock producers and meat eaters.

Head over to their stand on Friday 14th and Saturday 15th July to find out more!

14/06/2023

This article came out at the end of May - Morris and Essie doing a great job of keeping the campaign in the forefront of people's minds!

A group of farmers and butchers have set up a group with plans to reopen the Caithness abattoir in Keiss, north of Wick, to build a ‘meat hub’.

07/06/2023

Was at a two-hour on-line thing about Community Ownership Fund today - very interesting, very useful.