Petrol: £1.62 | Diesel: £1.63 | EV 38p p/u | Broadband: Online

Urras Thiriodh

Tiree Community Development Trust

The Trust Office

About Us

Urras Thiriodh, or Tiree Community Development Trust, is a charitable organisation set up to work towards long-term sustainable community development goals. We do our best to address vital service needs and to improve the lives of the people who live here. We are community-led and run by an elected board of Tiree permanent residents.

You will find our office based within the Island Centre, Crossapol. Our office includes a public visitor information point, with an accessible toilet and baby changing facility open to the public during office hours.

Our mission is to encourage and facilitate the sustainable development of the Isle of Tiree, with due regard to the unique culture, heritage and environment of the Island.

You can read our Articles of Association here.

What we do
Community Development Plan 2023-2028
Minutes

Board Meetings are held monthly where possible. Minutes will not be published until they have been approved at the following meeting.

Accounts
Staff

Phyl Meyer

Chief Officer

Rhoda Meek

Head of Comms & Gaelic

Shari MacKinnon

Finance and Admin Officer

Emmie Martin

Projects Officer

Fiona Armstrong

Community Support Officer

Willie MacKinnon

Youth Activities Co-ordinator

Our Ranger Hayley with a lamb on her lap and a cup of tea!

Hayley Douglas

Ranger

Inge Armstrong

Governance & Finance Officer

Legal Structure

Tiree Community Development Trust is a Company Limited by Guarantee (Company No. SC 292902) and a registered charity (Scottish Charity No. SC 037018). We also operate as Parent of a Company Group containing four subsidiary trading companies wholly owned by us.

Directors

All of our elected Board directors must be residents of Tiree and this ensures the we are led with the community interests at the heart of everything we do. We can choose to co-opt Directors who are not resident, but who have skills and expertise that we feel are important.

Our current board are:

Neil MacPhail (Acting Chair)

Willie Angus MacLean

Coinneach MacKinnon

Kris Milne

Ronnie Baird

Martin Finnigan

Marshall MacPhail

Mark Vale

Matthew MacDowell

Martin Finnigan

Assets and Subsiduaries

Currently we own 8 community assets including; a wind turbine, 2 harbours, a shop, an electric minibus, an art installation, 4 business units and a filling station.

We have 4 wholly owned subsiduaries.

TREL run our turbine. She generates revenue to support community projects.

TREL

TCEL runs the community fuel station and the business units, which opened in 2024.

TCEL

Tiree Broadband uses shortwave radio dishes to send broadband round the island.

Broadband

TCMAL owns Scarinish Harbour, Milton Harbour and 12 moorings for visiting yachts.

TCMAL
Our Approach

One of the key learning points over the early years of our development has been the importance of communication.  Communication is vital to the Trust achieving its vision and for the Tiree community and we take our responsibility for this very seriously . It would be very useful if we could have some constructive feedback on what is working and what you feel we need to improve.  So please support, guide and help us to build a solid foundation for Tiree to embrace the changes, opportunities and developments it faces.

Our Terms of Engagement are

  • To be inclusive for the whole Community
  • We will endeavour to acknowledge your communication within 3 working days.
  • Our key communication channels are regular updates in An Tirisdeach, public meetings in Tiree, our office and our website.

We welcome your questions and constructive feedback but please respect that we are a small, very busy team. Communication is a two way process and we aim for an inclusive approach to enable us to inform the community on Tiree. In all of our communications we will endeavour to be

  • respectful
  • clear
  • professional

and we feel that it is reasonable to expect the same of those corresponding with us.

Fair Work:

Tiree Community Development Trust is committed to playing its part in the Fair Work Convention’s vision that by 2025, people in Scotland will have a world-leading working life where fair work drives success, wellbeing and prosperity for individuals, businesses, organisations and society. We are therefore developing a workplace that is built on the five key dimensions of Fair Work: effective voice, opportunity, security, fulfilment and respect.

You can read our Fair Work Plan statement here

We are proud to pay at or above Real Living Wage for all staff and contractors, and it is a condition of tendering for work with us that contractors do the same.

Usage policy for material used on this site and any other site or publications under the Trust Group: Text information is provided for public benefit and may be shared and further distributed freely, with an attribution/link back to the source page. Photographs used on the websites or materials of any Trust project or subsidiary may not be used by third parties for any other purposes without the consent of the owner of the image. If you have a query regarding the use of an image, or wish to offer us the use of images for Trust purposes please contact photos@tireetrust.org.uk


Gàidhlig
Gàidhlig