Get your hands dirty!

  • Breadalbane Rural Skills Pupils
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Joint work party with John Muir Trust
  • Breadalbane S1 on Dun Coillich summit
  • Outdoor fun for the Beaver scouts
  • Joint working party with John Muir Trust in 2013 — at Dùn Coillich
  • Recording biodiversity
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Training trainees after completion of training
  • Fence Repairs
  • Wire transport for fencing 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Rural Skills Course Fence Maintenance
  • Cubs working hard planting trees at Dùn Coillich, March 2017
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Having a break from work 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Freeing the trees
  • Robin and Gillian Hull Memorial Bench
  • The Hydro Scheme provides the Trust with an annual income. The scheme takes water from Dùn Coillich
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Trail marking
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Treeplanting
  • Strimming - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Footpath Upgrades
  • Planting trees
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Sandra Winter working on Trish's enclosure in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Glengoulandie dam: Dùn Coillich
  • A social gathering
  • Tree planting
  • Volunteers
  • Camera Trap
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Rural Skills Course Outdoor First Aid Training
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Planting trees
  • Working with schools
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Fencing volunteers
  • Learning about nature
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Fungus Hunt Dùn Coillich August 2017
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Rob Coope helping with transport in 2013 Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Route marking: Dùn Coillich
  • Working with schools
  • Learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Coffee break
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • School group with Professor Russell Coope 2012 Dùn Coillich
  • Working with schools
  • Volunteers coffee break
  • Launch of Heart of Scotland Forest Partnership
  • Camera Trap Project June 2017
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • A social gathering
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • SNH Camera Trap Project: Grandtully Primary June 2017
  • Planting trees
  • All geared up - learning maintenance skills as part of the Rural Skills Training
  • Rural Skills Trainees learning how to do dry stane dyking
  • Monitoring Natural Regeneration
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Food for Beaver Scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • BBQ Autumn 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Some nourishment for the Beaver scouts after their hard work at Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Beavers Dùn Coillich
  • Breadalbane Tree Planting
  • Fencing volunteers in 2013 — Dùn Coillich
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Rural Skills Training trainee in action
  • Dùn Coillich is a beautiful location for hillwalking
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Dyke building Sep 2017
  • Fence repairs
  • Dùn Coillich - for the people
  • Beaver scouts and "the hut"
  • Working with schools
  • Beaver scouts examining the pondlife
  • First Aid Rural Skills 3
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Braes of Foss working party 20170309 Dùn Coillich
  • Fencing Dùn Coillich
  • Grandtully Primary
  • Volunteers coffee break
  • Grandtully Primary
  • BBQ October 2016 Dùn Coillich
  • Improving access
  • Willie McGhee Andy Walker Holly
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • The Beaver scouts having fun
  • Butterfly Surveying
  • Rural Skills Training Chainsaw training
  • Grandtully Primary School and the SNH camera trap project
  • Tree planting
  • Volunteer Day
  • Clearing Bracken from around newly planted trees.
  • Rural Skills Course 3
  • Fence Repairs

Join our Volunteer days

Heather Hamilton, our Project Officer, runs the following volunteer and training days. Contact Heather by email at projectofficer@hpclt.org or by phone at 07849 268411 for more information on any of these activities.

Weekly volunteer days at Dun Coillich

These run every Tuesday from 10am-4pm. 

Everyone is welcome to come along and join us for the whole day, or just a couple of hours!

FREE tea/coffee and biscuits.

Our group of hardy (and cheery) volunteers meets every week and gets involved in all aspects of the management of our site at Dun Coillich.

We try to keep the tasks varied and these can include planting and looking after our trees, helping to maintain our fenceline (to keep the tree munching deer out), helping to maintain and improve our network of walking trails and getting involved in habitat surveying and wildlife monitoring.

Our volunteer days are a great way to spend some time in the great outdoors, get some exercise, meet some likeminded people and learn and share new skills. All while doing something positive for your local environment, and in some of the most beautiful scenery that Highland Perthshire has to offer.

As one of our longstanding volunteers put it:

‘Good for the body, good for the mind, good for the soul, good for the stomach (cake), good for fellowship in fair and foul, good place to be, good fun, good for our appreciation of life, good for the place and its species we hope!’

We try to have a number of activities on each day to suit different abilities, so don’t worry if you are feeling a little unfit, or maybe aren’t as sprightly as you once were and don't be put off by thinking we are all mountain goats running up and down the hill, we are not.

It doesn't matter if you have never done anything like this before as all training and tools will be provided.

All you need to bring is yourself, some lunch and some suitable outdoor clothing.

It can be quite exposed up at Dun Coillich and is often several degrees cooler than down in the glen, so we would recommend you bring several layers, waterproofs and sturdy footwear. Also we can at times end up a little muddy, so I wouldn’t recommend wearing your best goretex climbing jacket!

Rural Skills Training Programme

Our Rural Skills Training Programme runs 1 to 2 days per week for 20 weeks. It is open to young people (16-25) from the Highland Perthshire area. We are offering training in Chainsaw / Brushcutter / Dyking / Fencing and Quadbiking, as well as practical work experience.

For more information see our Rural Skills Training page.

School and Youth Groups

We welcome groups from school and local clubs and can cater for all ages.

We work closely with our local school communities and regularly host various school groups up at Dun Coillich. This includes Rural Skills Pupils from Breadalbane Academy and Junior Rangers from Pitlochry High who visit us regularly throughout the year.

In 2018 we were able to offer all S1 pupils from out local area the chance to come and plant a tree with us. We also host visits from local primary schools and local scout, beaver and cub groups, and always welcome people to come and see what we are up to and maybe pick up a spade and help us out!

If you have a group that would like to come and visit us, whether just for a walk or to plant a tree, or get involved in some other project get in touch with our project officer.

 

 


You can also check our calendar for other upcoming events.