Upcoming Events
We WANT Festival Ceilidh
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A spinning, swooping and fancy feet night to end our We WANT Festival with a Ceildh in the Pentland Hotel.
Music by Ady Harper and friends.
Tickets are priced at £10 per person and be purchased here, in Socially Growing (1 Rotterdam Street, Thurso) or at the Pentland Hotel on the night of the ceilidh.
Previous events
Highland Community Waste Partnership throw leaving party and invite everyone to our celebration!
Swap your unwanted clothes for something new and exciting, and check out the stalls of our amazing collaborators and friends, that we made over the past 3 years, and ours, of course.
British Legion bar will be open for drinks and snacks throughout the whole time.
Learn with us how you can utilize sheep fleece in outdoors projects. Come to Dunnet Community Forest and line soggy muddy paths with wool to improve the quality of paths, and also line overgrown paths with wool, as alternative solution to trimming paths.
Join this fun event and find out how you can create great stylish looks for any occasion, at no cost for the planet and in a very budget-friendly way!
At the Adult Charity Fashion Show, you will be able to relax with the glass of wine (included in your ticket) and observe our models on the catwalk who will be demonstrating fabulous looks pulled together from Cancer Research items. All looks and much more available for purchase!
Learn with us how you can utilize sheep fleece in gardening projects - mulching beds and tree circles, for suppressing weeds and retaining moisture.
This learning and volunteering session is organized in collaboration with Highland Wool CIC for sheep owners local to Caithness, to help them learn how to prep their fleeces for further use.
This is the final event in collaboration with Castle and Gardens of Mey.
Come with us for the autumnal clean up session to the lovely Mey gardens and help the team of gardeners with preparing the gardens for the winter time, and get a chance to collect seeds, flowers and cuttings from the impressive collection of plants in the garden.
You will learn the baseline stitches and techniques of crocheting, find out how to read instructions and will complete a project, by the end of your course.
This will be 6 week training programme, for children and adults, at both beginner and intermediate level.
At this workshop, you will learn about various weaving techniques and will get an exciting opportunity to use a weaving loom so make your own fabric!
You will get a priceless opportunity to learn how to spin yarn from sheep wool from wonderful Ann Johnson, Regional Leader of the Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers for Scotland and Northern Ireland, featured on BBC, and her colleagues.
Thurso Community Development Trust, as a member of Highland Community Waste Partnership, are organizing Circular Caithness Fair to support and promote circular economy of Caithness.