College Buys Workshops

From Pat Glenday:

West Highland College - the new College formed as a result of the merger between Lochaber College and Skye and Wester Ross College - has recently purchased both the workshop units beside the Community Centre. This is good for the Learning Centre because it means the annual cost of running the Centre will reduce as I will no longer have to find the rent, which will help to keep the Centre viable and ensure a continued College, and UHI, presence in Kilchoan.

There will be some refurbishment of the empty unit over the summer, to turn it into what I hope will be a nice big, uncluttered room for courses, training, talks and that sort of thing. The computers and office equipment, plus the UHI video conferencing kit, will stay where it is now, but with two rooms available the university students should get a bit more peace and quiet for their studies, and I won't need to worry about double bookings of the room any more.

All in all it's a great move forward for the Learning Centre in Kilchoan, which demonstrates the College's confidence in what we have achieved so far in terms of both the number and range of courses, and the number of students and participants. And that, of course, is all down to the excellent level of support the Centre has received from local people, and increasingly now, regular visitors to the area. Thank you to everyone. Long may it continue.

The Diary comments: Many thanks to you, Pat, for all the brilliant work you've done for this community. That WHC is prepared to spend what must have been a considerable sum on buying the two properties indicates their confidence in what you are doing here.