Refurbished Nairn gym reopens for business

Nairn Leisure Centre visitors can smash their fitness goals following refurbishment and improvements to the gym. The fitness suite at the Marine Road venue was refurbished following damage caused by a burst water pipe in February. High Life Highland’s Director of Sport and Leisure Douglas Wilby said: “We’d like to thank Nairn residents for their… Read more »Read more

Free sportswear offered to Alness girls and young women

Free sportswear is being offered to girls and young women in Alness through a new scheme to inspire people to get active. Set up by High Life Highland’s Active Schools volunteer Aileen Stuart, the Girls in Sport initiative offers free, pre-loved active wear through its Facebook page. Aileen, who has volunteered with HLH for the… Read more »Read more

Exercise programme for those with arthritic pain

A six-week course of exercise to help people affected by arthritic pain will start later this month (August). The ESCAPE-pain programme runs at Inverness Leisure on Bught Lane and aims to get people moving and improve their quality of life. High Life Highland’s Health and Wellbeing Manager Lynn Bauermeister said: “Physical activity is important for… Read more »Read more

Important Customer Update

Over the past few days we have been experiencing intermittent IT service issues from our supplier. The outages have had an impact on the server where our booking systems are held, unfortunately this means that we need to ask members who made any bookings between Monday 26th July and Thursday 29th July (inclusive) to rebook… Read more »Read more

New City events group agree attendee safety as top priority

At its meeting in May, the City of Inverness Area Committee agreed to invite High Life Highland, as the Council’s arms-length Charity, to assume responsibility for managing the City’s events programme on their behalf. This week, a newly created forum of events sector representatives met for the first time to look at ways in… Read more »Read more

New operator for Bellfield Park

High Life Highland confirmed today that as part of a rationalisation it will now operate Bellfield Park in Inverness. The Park will be a useful addition to the charity’s current park portfolio in Inverness which includes Bught Park and the Northern Meeting Park. Bellfield Park is a five-minute walk from Inverness city Centre hosting eight… Read more »Read more

Inverness Leisure opens Café

Returning customers of Inverness Leisure will notice quite a difference in the layout and offering now available at the leisure centre. COVID – 19 restrictions meant that gym equipment had to be moved around to accommodate social distancing and provided the added benefit of bringing forward plans to reconfigure the site for the longer term…. Read more »Read more

Music tuition fees to be waived in next school year

Over the next few weeks, High Life Highland will be contacting the families of Highland school pupils to advise them that their music tuition fees are being waived for the 2021-22 academic year. The move comes following a funding package being introduced as part of the Scottish Government’s ‘First Steps’ document which committed to… Read more »Read more

Summer of Fun at Highland Folk Museum

High Life Highland operators of Highland Folk Museum announced today that they have been successful in securing funding from Museums Galleries Scotland’s ‘Summer Programme Fund’. The Highland Folk Museum (HFM) has been awarded £27, 157 which will fully fund their ‘Summer of Fun’ programme at the museum, with the fund being used to offer… Read more »Read more

Hanging Baskets return to brighten up city centre

The Provost and Leader of Inverness and Area Cllr Helen Carmichael recently meet at Ness Bridge in Inverness with Mike Smith Inverness BID Manager and Gordon Brown of High Life Highland to celebrate the 2021 Inverness city centre floral displays. Provost Carmichael said: “Members of the City of Inverness Area Committee are pleased to… Read more »Read more