Grimsay Community Association
Grimsay Community Association is a heritage and cultural organisation serving the island of Grimsay, a crofting and fishing community located between Benbecula and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides.
Association staff are on-site 10am - 1.30pm, Monday - Friday, for most of the year, and at other times by arrangement
Website of Grimsay Community AssociationAddress
Ceann na h-Àirigh
Scotvein
Grimsay
Isle of North Uist
HS6 5JA
Telephone
01870 603359
About
Grimsay Community Association is a heritage and cultural organisation serving the island of Grimsay, a crofting and fishing community located between Benbecula and North Uist in the Outer Hebrides. The Association owns and manages the community heritage and visitor centre at Ceann na h-Àirigh, the former Free Church which was built by the people of Grimsay. Grimsay Community Association regularly hosts workshops, demonstrations, exhibitions, events, talks and ceilidhs, preserving and sharing an authentic and meaningful experience of the Gaelic culture and local heritage.
Grimsay Boat Haven is the Association’s most recent development and the first maritime heritage visitor attraction in the Western Isles. A landmark building, it preserves, displays and interprets exemplars of the Stewart-built Grimsay Boats, a nationally recognised style of clinker-built work boat. The Boat Haven links with the existing Grimsay Boat Trail, a self-guided trail of three important and historic sites around Grimsay.
Collections
The Grimsay Archive is held in a dedicated archive store within Ceann na h-Àirigh and includes collections relating to:
- Local and social history traditions of Grimsay
- Community projects on Grimsay
- the Stewart-Built Grimsay boats
- Grimsay Boat Days (1999-2011)
- Grimsay Boat Shed (history, development and training programmes)
- Heisgeir (the Monach Isles)
- Small boat fishing records in the Uists, 1945 – 1968 (Creek Books)
