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Community-owned moorings help address so many of the current environmental and economical issues that are having an impact on our society.
LINLITHGOW
LEADS THE WAY!
Community Moorings Scotland (CMS) are making history
by going live with their first community-owned moorings hub located on the bank at Narrowboat Farm, Linlithgow.
CMS is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation (SCIO) that was created in 2016 to create more choice and opportunities for the canal- based communities, while bringing life and vibrancy to our much-underused canals. CMS intends to create hubs along the length of the lowland canals creating places to live, work, play, and learn together, from which both the canal-based and the local communities can benefit.
Community-owned moorings help address so many of the current environmental and economical issues that are having an impact
on our society. Living and trading from a boat is a far more affordable and environmentally friendly way
to live and work. Creating mooring hubs on the canal, alongside existing infrastructure, minimises the release of carbon in comparison to house building as well as minimising disruption to the existing community.
There are so many positive ways that community-owned moorings can contribute to the local people and areas where they are established.
CMS’s first history-making boaters will soon be taking up their moorings, and one of these history-makers is Elspeth Soutar, who will be opening “This Time Mindfully”, a therapeutic, mindfulness and healing centre on
a boat.
Other history-makers include Kate Elliot and Stephen Hobson, who were the first to sign up and only joined the Scottish canals when they both moved up from Herefordshire last year.
Community Moorings Scotland are delighted to welcome them and all the other lovely boaters who will become part of Scotland’s first community- owned mooring site in Linlithgow.
If you would like to know more
about our vision, our moorings at Narrowboat Farm, or how to get involved, please feel free to contact us at - info@communitymoorings.com, or visit our website: www.communitymoorings.com.
Christine McKay
20 BLACK BITCH ISSUE 91 JULY 2022
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