Craft fair helps protect Seil's wild side

Makers are busy crafting for a festive event at Seil Island Hall this Saturday, December 3.

 

The fair is being organised by community interest company Seil Biodiversity which works to protect the island's native nature life.

 

Doors open from 11.30am to 3.30pm and Seil choir will be performing carols between noon and 1pm.

 

As well as packing the hall with stalls, organisers hope to have Christmas crafting courtesy of a resource pack from Remake Argyll. Refreshments and light lunches will be available.

 

One of the projects Seil Biodiversity is working towards, in partnership with Argyll and The Isles Coast and Countryside Trust, could see the island join Brazil, Peru and Australia in a global rainforest restoration project. If it goes ahead, it would re-connect fragments of Argyll’s rainforest.

 

Seil has one of Scotland’s finest examples of ancient Atlantic hazelwood at Ballachuan, home to a number of rare species, including lichen.

 

Set up three years ago, Seil Biodiversity has already been working on clearing the island of invasive Rhododendron ponticum.

 

One of Seil Biodiversity's directors Kim Rowswell has raised funds by braving the sea to do 30 sponsored swims in 30 days to attract funding for the group's work looking after the island's wild spaces.

 

You can still make donations here www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding/kim-rowswell

 

 

Caption: Volunteers on Seil get hands-on removing Rhododendron ponticum from Kilbrandon Church grounds as part of Seil Biodiversity's work - the group that is organising Saturday's craft fair at Seil Island Hall.

 

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