One of our funders, the Rural Perth & Kinross LEADER programme 2014-2020 have just made a short film about our 2017 launch programme. Made by Morocco Media, You can watch it here:    

The 57 bus pulling into Alyth Market Square, photo Clare Cooper The 57 there’s something about double-deckers transport of choice for rubber-neckers the way they drive us to work & play through life & strife, the full sway – a place for lovers under ticketed covers the full mystery of a top deck finding fresh […]

Today we launched our Common Ground Exhibition at The Barony Alyth, the culmination of a project that captured the great variety and richness of the 6,000 years of the Cateran Trail’s historic environment through specially commissioned and curated oblique aerial photography of the locality especially curated by Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust. 600 photographs have been […]

Today we launched our exhibition ‘A Story of the Cateran Trail in 100 Objects’ at Alyth Museum. It was opened by Bob Ellis, one of the Trail’s founders and one of the youngest members of East Perthshire’s community to have walked the Trail, Sebastian Goodman. One of Scotland’s great long-distance footpaths and fully waymarked, the Trail’s circular 64-mile (103-km) route through […]

The Story Box, a new community-led oral history archive, was launched today, Thursday 18th May in Alyth Market Square.   Alyth Primary School youngsters opening The Story Box with one of their songs The box was opened by Dorothy Lothian, the oldest contributor to the archive, who recounts tales of her rural childhood during World […]

The final 100 Objects to be included in “A Story of the Cateran Trail in 100 Objects” have now been chosen.   The project was launched in November 2016 with a campaign to crowdsource ideas for 100 objects that tell the story of the Trail’s history right up until the present day. Folk who live and […]

The Scotland’s Sounds Network has just confirmed that they are able to support a Researcher in Residence as part of The Story Box project. The overarching aim of the network is to improve the care of and the access to Scotland’s heritage recorded sounds. Naomi Harvey is a PhD researcher with a background in working […]

Saturday 25th March saw the launch of our Walks & Talks Programme. First off was artist in residence Deirdre Nelson walking from Alyth to Bridge of Cally with a group of walkers.   Coming up are 14 other walks and talks spreading over seven months and running into September all arranged to share the rich diversity […]

A Story of the Cateran Trail in 100 Objects is the first of three Cateran’s Common wealth projects to launch this week with a 4 month public campaign to crowdsource ideas for 100 objects that tell the story of the Trail’s history right up until the present day. A dramatic view of Gleann Beag where […]

On 22nd September, 22 youngsters from Rattray Primary School undertook a heritage walk to view one of Scotland’s finest Iron Age Forts, Barry Hill next to Alyth. Accompanying them were Nicky Mcfarlane, Primary School teacher at Rattray and volunteers Scott Whyte, parent, Alison Hall of Historic Holidays Scotland and Clare Cooper, co-producer of Cateran’s Common […]

At last we are able to go public on the fact that after 16 months of solid fundraising we have achieved full funding for our first three projects!   Looking toward Glenshee from the Cateran Trail at the top of Alyth Hill, Photo, Clare Cooper Ironically, given the Brexit decision, the last piece of our […]

It’s been a long haul trying to put the fundraising together to launch the programme. Over the last 14 months we’ve been pitching our plans to dozens of public and private funders across the UK and even in Europe and we are now one decision away from knowing whether we achieved our first fundraising target of […]

We heard on Friday that we had received a grant from the Foyle Foundation to undertake research and development on our idea to turn the Vanora legend into an opera as part of the Cateran’s Common Wealth programme.   Janis Hart, Zoe Strachan, Kally Lloyd Jones, Jessica Cottis on top of Barry Hill, Photo Clare […]

We’ve just launched the first stage results of our mapping exercise, which aims to make visible all those working with arts and culture around the Trail and all the historical and archaeological sites in the vicinity. You can see the map here.   Photo, courtesy of Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust   Please get in […]

A new tartan which honours Perthshire’s berry-growing heritage has been unveiled by a local weaver. Photo by WarpWeftWeave   Called Blairgowrie Berries and Cherries, the fabric, is a vibrant mix of pinks, purples and greens. It was designed by weaver Ashleigh Slater and is registered to local fruit growers Thomas Thomson (Blairgowrie) Ltd. The area […]

The Story Box project, one of the first projects to start getting of the ground in the Cateran’s Common Wealth programme, made the Courier and the Blairie this week!   Marian Bruce, Producer of The Story Box   The Story Box is a community audio artwork and oral history project which aims to capture the […]

Heartland FM is an award-winning local radio station serving Perthshire, Scotland. You can listen live anywhere in the world online at heartlandfm.co.uk and in Perthshire on 97.5 and 106.6 FM.   Clare Cooper was delighted to speak to Shona Whyte about the project and you can hear her short interview, broadcast on the 16th October […]

We were delighted to hear this week that the Drumderg Fund has awarded £10,000 to the project for the early stage development of three projects. They join Creative Scotland, Perth & Kinross Council and Mission Models Money as the first wave of financial supporters of the project.   What will become The Story Box   […]

We’ve had a busy summer starting up the project!   In July we heard that Creative Scotland had awarded us early stage development funding for the public art strand of the programme. This is terrific news, as along with funding from Perth & Kinross Council and Mission Models Money, it has enabled us to start laying the foundations […]