Help THE SHIELING PROJECT move in
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The Shieling Project is a social enterprise working with teachers and young people to explore the natural and cultural heritage of shieling life and its significance today. Each summer, for a long stretch of our past, young people all over Scotland would play an integral role in taking the livestock up to hill or moorland pastures, camping there in small bothies, learning about the world beyond the village.
At the project young people get to grips with skills from ancient to modern, peat cutting to sustainable building, Gaelic work song to tree planting. From understanding traditional pastoral life, and comparing it to the present, we will make an impact on some of the big themes of our times: food, sustainability, health and well-being.
Help us move on to our amazing and remote site in Glenstrathfarrar in the Highlands of Scotland. Our current funding drive is to help us move our key member of staff - Dr Sam Harrison, and his family - into the cottage at our ten acre site. These funds will be used to help meet the costs of moving, and secure full planning permission to create our heritage and sustainability education centre.
At the project young people get to grips with skills from ancient to modern, peat cutting to sustainable building, Gaelic work song to tree planting. From understanding traditional pastoral life, and comparing it to the present, we will make an impact on some of the big themes of our times: food, sustainability, health and well-being.
Help us move on to our amazing and remote site in Glenstrathfarrar in the Highlands of Scotland. Our current funding drive is to help us move our key member of staff - Dr Sam Harrison, and his family - into the cottage at our ten acre site. These funds will be used to help meet the costs of moving, and secure full planning permission to create our heritage and sustainability education centre.
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Sam Harrison
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