Apple day and community picnics to bring Highlands and Islands Climate Festival to a close
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A community apple day and big picnics will mark the conclusion of the month-long Highlands and Islands Climate Festival.
Activities from ceilidhs to clothes swapping events have been taking place during September in a celebration of community climate action.
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The final events on Saturday include a celebration of apples organised by Circus Artspace in the Telford Retail Park, Inverness.
It will include home baking from locally-sourced apples and family craft activities using recycled materials.
Other events include big local picnics in Nairn and Strathpeffer on Saturday plus the offical opening of a new community shop in Strathpeffer.
The Highlands and Islands Climate Festival has brought together community organisations and has been co-ordinated by the Highlands and Islands Climate Hub.
With more than100 events, the main themes have been to think local, share local, grow local and eat local.
Joan Lawrie, manager for the Highlands and Islands Climate Hub, said the festival planning started with a working group of eight Hub member organisations which soon grew to over 55 funded to deliver events throughout the festival with many more community organisations and agencies joining in.
"By creating a theme of thinking local, we’ve celebrated local food and drink, local businesses and community organisations while sending out a message of come together within your communities, celebrate, share and be local – those kind of positive climate action messages help people to understand that by taking small actions we can all be part of something bigger in being more sustainable and using the resources we have locally available," she said.
During its final week, the festival is also joining Scotland’s Climate Week in shining a light on the work in communities taking positive actions in the face of the climate emergency.
