The Trust

The main aims of the Trust are;

• to extend appreciation of the value of the collection to Ness and other communities in the Outer Hebrides, and to promote use of the collection by local and other people for the purposes of historical interest, education and research.
• to establish and promote links with the Northern Isles and other Nordic areas, and to encourage comparative studies.
• to advise and provide support to the collection.
• to raise funds to further these aims.

Activities planned by the Trust include:

• a programme of talks, exhibitions and seminars on topics related to the collection.
• the establishment of a bursary to promote research and comparative studies.
• acquisition of additional books and material to supplement the existing collection.
• publications on related topics.

AGNES RENNIE TO GIVE THE 2010 ANGUS MACLEOD MEMORIAL LECTURE ON LAND REFORM

This year’s prestigious Angus Macleod memorial lecture will take place on Thursday 28th October in Pairc School, Gravir, it was announced today. The speaker will be Agnes Rennie, a crofter from Galson, Ness, Lewis, and well known for her work with the Crofters Commission, Bord na Gaidhlig, councillor for the Nis is an Taobh Siar of Comhairle nan Eilean Siar, and currently chair of Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn (Galson Trust).

Agnes, who will speak in Gaelic (with simultaneous translation into English) will be taking as her subject the land struggle, land reform, and community ownership of land – a subject dear to the heart of the late Angus ‘Ease’ Macleod MBE and not tackled in previous lectures.more