It’s #NationalShortbreadDay so what better time to announce the categories for the first ever World Shortbread Championships, which will take place in Inverness on 21 November this year. Battling it out for the shortbread honours will be junior bakers and amateur bakers alongside professionals, with traditional and speciality categories leading to the crowning of the… Read more »Read more

New BBC Alba Documentary Brings Scotland’s Favourite Highland Rogue Back to Life This New Year’s Day For the first time, Scotland’s much-loved Highland hero and mischievous rogue Angus Òg will appear on screen in a brand-new documentary airing on BBC Alba at 9pm on New Year’s Day. Produced in collaboration with Caledonia TV, the programme… Read more »Read more

The High Life Highland Leadership Programme is all about the hoodie and now a new colour has been introduced into the mix – in partnership with Mikeysline – that will support mental health charities. The new yellow hoodie was launched at the weekend (Saturday 20 December) at Nairn County’s Station Park with representatives from High… Read more »Read more

High Life Highland is excited to introduce its brand-new leisure management system, designed to make joining highlife and booking highlife classes as simple as possible! Customers can now download the HLH leisure mobile app, which offers several simple tools at their fingertips to keep health and wellbeing goals on track. Its introduction by High Life… Read more »Read more

Primary school pupils across Badenoch and Strathspey are stepping into winter with energy and creativity thanks to a series of dance sessions led by young leaders from the Cairngorm School of Dance. The Aviemore-based dance school has teamed up with High Life Highland’s Active Schools team to deliver the fun dance classes right across the… Read more »Read more

High Life Highland’s libraries are set to benefit from a £32,000 investment that will help to develop library services for communities and schools through innovative projects. Administered by the Scottish Library and Information Council (SLIC) on behalf of The Scottish Government, High Life Highland has been successful in securing Public Library Improvement Funding for a… Read more »Read more

An intergenerational choir has made its debut at the annual Christmas lights switch on in Nairn at the weekend. High Life Highland’s Leadership Programme, Mikeysline and Nairn Youth Development are behind this special project involving residents at St Olaf’s Care Home and pupils at Auldearn Primary and Nursery. Choir sessions have been taking place every… Read more »Read more

A duo of High Life Highland employees have marked an incredible 45 years’ service with the charity and The Highland Council. Clerical assistant Avril Budge and mobile library van driver Alistair Sinclair were recognised alongside other long serving members of the High Life Highland team at a special event in Inverness yesterday (26 November). They… Read more »Read more

There were hoops galore at last week’s East Sutherland Schools Sports Association (ESSSA) basketball competition.  With seven schools and just under 100 pupils taking part, the gym hall at Golspie High School was buzzing! A total of 13 teams made up of P6 and P7 pupils entered the tournament – six boys, four girls and… Read more »Read more

An inspiring member of the Lochaber Leisure Centre team has narrowly missed out on an accolade at the Scottish Leisure Network Group Awards, which took place last week. Leisure supervisor Kira MacDonald was nominated in the Rising Star Award category by senior High Life Highland colleagues for consistently going above and beyond in every aspect… Read more »Read more