Kilfinan

Amanda Delew, one of the group coordinators at the Kilfinan Group, says many charity chief executives can feel isolated and burdened by responsibility. Talking through such issues with a mentor can help relieve the pressure, as well as encouraging them ...

Kilfinan Community Forest Company (KCFC) is initially offering two homes and two self-build plots in a community-owned forest in Tighnabruaich with the hope of offering more in the future. A housing masterplan by the charity has been approved by the ...

It's a little ironic that at the heart of Kilfinan Community Forest is the timber operation which helps to make the forest sustainable. We stand back and watch as a long, thin log is strapped to a machine, and then cleaned before the moving blade is ...

The Kilfinan Community Forest project began almost nine years ago when the Forestry Commission were selling off woodland. The villagers of Tighnabruaich clubbed together, started fundraising and taking donations, and in March 2010 bought 125 hectares ...

The new organisation, with a name pointing to its Scottish origins – Kilfinan Australia – says the free service aims to build trusting relationships between the corporate and Not for Profit sectors. Kilfinan Australia was inspired by the Kilfinan Group ...

A man who carried out an armed robbery at a bookmakers in the north of Glasgow has been jailed for five years. John James Hamilton brandished a gun at staff and stole £335 from the Ladbrokes shop in Kilfinan Street, Milton, in December 2011.