News – Lairg & District Learning Centre

Climate Challenge Fund Project

11 March, 2019/by lairgmin

Lairg and District Learning Centre have been awarded a grant of £183,016 through the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund(CCF).

Get Into Growing FREE online courses!

15 January, 2021/by lairgmin

We are so excited to partner with Thurso Grows for this free four part Get Into Growing programme! The dark months of January and February are the best times to start planning for Spring and imagining all the amazing food and fun you can have once the light returns. This course is here to encourage and […]

Lairg & District Learning Centre – Closed for Christmas holidays

22 December, 2020/by lairgmin

Lairg & District Learning Centre is now closed with staff on leave until Tuesday 5th January. From the bottom of our hearts we want to thank each and every one of your for your support and understanding through the hardest year most of us have ever faced. We’ve gone from running sometimes 20+ classes per […]

Working from Home

13 November, 2020/by lairgmin

A reminder that our team are working from home and you can not reach us by telephone. We have been unable to turn off the answer machine and any messages left on the phone will be unlikely to be picked up regularly. The best way to reach us is by email through admin@lairglearningcentre.org.uk. All of […]

How to create a website for beginners class

11 November, 2020/by lairgmin

Want to know how to create your own website from scratch but don’t know where to begin? Then this is the course for you! In this 2 week session we will go through the basics to get you started, from the initial planning stage, learning the lingo, which website builder suits your budget, to the […]

Green Christmas Crafting Sesisons!

4 November, 2020/by lairgmin

Did you know Scots typically use more than 19,000 miles of wrapping paper during Christmas? That is enough to wrap the NC500 nearly 37 times! If you would like to reduce your households waste during the holidays join one (or all!) of our upcoming Green Christmas Craft Sessions. These workshops will be hosted by Jo […]

Lairg & District Learning Centre Monthly Quiz Night

23 October, 2020/by lairgmin

We are starting up a monthly quiz night. Fun, free and family friendly! Held the 3rd Wednesday of each month. Sign up through Eventbrite using the link below. https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ldlc-monthly-quiz-night-tickets-126279516433?fbclid=IwAR1hJokwPjtiGaS2FEqMJZXpfxn39wprHzc_37Zruw7UzVRSa5Vm5AufsSA

Staycation Cookery

14 July, 2020/by lairgmin

Our ‘Staycation Cookery’ series launches this month on our Facebook group, the LDLC Cookery Club. We have a series of videos to get you cooking foods from around the world, starting with the humble scone. You can also view the first video on our Youtube channel below by pressing the “read more” button

The Wild Bothy Online Market

11 June, 2020/by lairgmin

The Wild Bothy has been set up to support and promote local, independent businesses. As we all know the Covid-19 pandemic has severely impacted many of our local, small, independent businesses, with many business not able to access their usual customers. The Wild Bothy online market will bring together many of our unique creatives, creators, […]

Lairg & District Learning Centre COVID -19 update

3 April, 2020/by lairgmin

Our office is currently closed due to Covid-19. Our staff are working from home. We are not currently running any face to face classes, workshops, events or meetings but we are working on delivering these digitally over the next few weeks. If you need to contact us please email admin@lairglearningcentre.org.uk. Thank you for your patience […]

Climate Challenge Fund Grant Award

3 April, 2020/by lairgmin

We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded £183,000 through the Scottish Government’s Climate Challenge Fund to deliver climate and environmental related learning and development activities for another 2 years. Due to the current restrictions in place because of Covid-19 we are exploring ways to deliver the project online until we are able to organise […]

Ready Steady Cook Event – 13.2.2020

23 March, 2020/by lairgmin

The Gathering – November 2019

22 November, 2019/by lairgmin

We were delighted to take part in the 2019 Climate Challenge Fund (CCF) Gathering at Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh, where two members of our team gave a presentation on how to talk to the community about climate change.

A Dry Subject

5 August, 2019/by lairgmin

According one of her students our business mentor, Anna Renouf, made a dry subject interesting, which is good to hear! Anna has been running workshops since November 2018, helping people in our community (and beyond) in all aspects of business development, from the basics of starting up a business, writing a business plan, developing marketing strategies to using social media.

Train the Trainer

14 July, 2019/by lairgmin

Our Bookings Administrator is off the Keep Scotland Beautiful HQ where she will take part in a two-day training course, learning how to teach people about carbon literacy.

Beavering Away

12 July, 2019/by lairgmin

Schools out, but not for us.

Highland children finished their term on July 4th and headed off for six weeks of summer fun! Meanwhile in The School House the team are beavering away at the August – Winter 2019 prospectus, planning autumnal and Christmas classes.

Meditation

9 June, 2019/by lairgmin

“Learning meditation is wave like, it peaks and troughs but is ultimately powerful”.

An inspirational visit

18 May, 2019/by lairgmin

What an inspiration! On Friday the team headed to Cantraybridge, near Inverness, to meet the successful team behind this specialist further education college for young adults with additional support needs. They offer both day student places as well as residential accommodation and provide a variety of courses and learning experiences across our rural campus.

Who Do You Think you Are?

3 May, 2019/by lairgmin

May sees the start of our Family History evening class, with local expert Ellen Lindsay.

Grow Your Own

22 April, 2019/by lairgmin

There’s nothing more disheartening than seeing herbs in plastic wrapping on supermarket shelves when you can grow your own at home, and pick them when you need them. No plastic, no food miles and fresh as a … chive.