Cllr Muriel Cockburn SNP

24/10/2026

24/10/2026

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🥪Soup & Sandwiches from 12:00pm
🕰️ Sale opens 1:30pm
📍 The Village Hall, Newtonmore

All the usual stalls; venison, baking, bottle, Club merchandise, kindling, children’s tombola and golf, luxury hamper raffle and a range of gifts perfect for Christmas from local crafters and traders 🎁 🎄

Join us, support the Club and catch up with friends for an afternoon of shopping, fun and games 💙

Newtonmore Community Village Hall

22/10/2026

17/10/2026

A date for your diary coming soon!

09/10/2026

🗓️ The surgery tour continues… Still have some availability for Drumnadrochit, Fort Augustus & Aviemore

📍 Fort Augustus & Drumnadrochit
📍 Thurso & Golspie
📍 Aviemore & Grantown-on-Spey

📥 For more info and to book an appointment, please email me on [email protected] or 📞 01349 888281

09/10/2026

Did you know that you could access the Childcare Support Fund through CALA?

Scottish Government's Childcare Support Fund, administered by CALA, will provide short-term financial support to families experiencing temporary financial difficulties across Highlands and Islands.

Registered childcare services can apply on behalf of eligible families to help cover childcare costs where a family is at risk of losing their childcare place, requires additional childcare, or is unable to access childcare due to financial difficulty. Families can also apply themselves.

Funding can be used to cover childcare fees at Care Inspectorate-registered services, including daycare, breakfast clubs, after school clubs, childminders and holiday clubs.

Eligibility - Who Is This Support For?

The Fund is designed to support families where the cost or availability of childcare is a barrier, including circumstances such as:

Increasing working, studying or training hours
Preventing the loss of working, studying or training hours
Looking for work or attending job interviews
Following unemployment or redundancy
Managing short-term financial strain (e.g. unexpected bill, home repair or car repair)
Supporting the family during a period of ill health
Supporting the family following bereavement
Supporting the family with caring responsibilities

The Fund will focus particularly on families most at risk of poverty, including the priority family groups identified in the Scottish Government's Bringing Hope, Building Futures: Tackling child poverty delivery plan 2026 - 2031:

Lone parent family
Minority ethnic family
Family with a disabled adult or child
Larger family (three or more children)
Family with a child under one year old
Family with a mother aged under 25

Although not excluded from the fund, families in receipt of Universal Credit childcare costs and other financial support are advised to speak to their work coach or benefits advisor before an application is made on their behalf.

Check our website for further details and the application process and form
FIND OUT MORE - https://careandlearningalliance.co.uk/childcare-support-fund/

09/10/2026

The Bereavement Support Group returns next week 🌿

Drop in from 7pm for support with grief. You can attend at any time during the six-week block and there's no need to book.

Your bereavement does not need to be recent, and help with grief can be sought at any time. Please come along to this safe space if you are struggling or would just like a compassionate ear.

09/10/2026