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Generous local businesses get behind young leaders

If the function of leadership is to produce more leaders then the High Life Highland Leadership Programme is smashing it! So successful is the initiative that local business leaders are showing the lead too – by generously sponsoring the coveted hoodies that young participants are awarded for their volunteering hours. The Leadership Programme began life… Read more »Read more

Who do you think highly of at High Life Highland?

High Life Highland’s dedicated staff are the backbone of the organisation and now is the time to nominate your local High Life Highland hero for a prestigious i-care award. High Life Highland’s 2025 i-care awards are designed to recognise and celebrate the great successes that the charity’s staff and volunteers achieve every day to make… Read more »Read more

Pictish stone is standing tall in new home at North Coast Visitor Centre

A long forgotten Pictish stone, which was likely being used as a grave marker in a remote Christian burial ground in Caithness, has been recovered and restored, and is now on display at the North Coast Visitor Centre thanks to the local landowner and heritage volunteers. The Ulbster 2 Pictish Stone joins the original Ulbster… Read more »Read more

Explore the culture of the shieling at new Skye exhibition

ùir-sgeul | earth story is a new exhibition by artist Eilidh MacKenzie, exploring oral traditions, maps, landscapes, archaeology and written materials related to Skye’s shieling culture – and it can be explored this summer at the Skye and Lochalsh Archive Centre, Portree. Shieling, or àirigh in Gaelic, is the name given to both a summer… Read more »Read more

HYROX hits highlife!

HYROX is billed as the ultimate fitness race and it’s coming to a highlife leisure centre near you! High Life Highland has announced that three of its sites will be introducing this global fitness phenomenon this summer. Inverness Leisure, Aviemore Community Centre and Lochaber Leisure Centre are all rolling out this new offering to customers…. Read more »Read more

Enjoy a toe tapping afternoon of traditional music at Inverness Leisure

Around 200 young musicians from across the Highlands are set to entertain folks in the Highland capital with some jigs, reels and marches next Saturday. The event is High Life Highland’s first ever Fiddlers Rally, organised by the charity’s instrumental music tuition service and featuring performances from fiddle students as well as the Highland Young… Read more »Read more

Celebrating our ‘green’ volunteers

During Volunteers Week, High Life Highland is taking the opportunity to thank all its volunteers, particularly those green fingered heroes and nature enthusiasts who are helping to Make Life Better. At the Inverness Botanic Gardens there are volunteers working hard to keep this oasis of colour and tranquillity looking beautiful for visitors – as well… Read more »Read more

We’re beginning to upgrade our booking system

Earlier this year, we announced our plans to upgrade our current booking system to provide you with a smoother, more reliable booking experience. As part of the first phase of this upgrade, we want to inform you that our leisure booking system and member joining system will be temporarily unavailable from 8pm on Sunday 8th June… Read more »Read more

Enjoy a generous helping of spoons at Inverness Museum & Art Gallery!

Where would we be without spoons? It’s pretty tricky to sup on a bowl of broth with a fork! So in honour of this simple but universal utensil, the Inverness Museum & Art Gallery is launching a new exhibition this weekend, celebrating the humble spoon. Opening on Saturday (31 May) ‘Spoonful’ brings together a wide… Read more »Read more

For a whale of a time head to Dingwall this weekend!

Fancy diving into the world of cetaceans and learning more about how they live and how we can help them thrive? And there’s no need to even leave dry land, just pop along to Dingwall Academy this weekend. High Life Highland, Whale and Dolphin Conservation and British Divers Marine Life Rescue are giving people the… Read more »Read more