Bovril is running a Great Outdoors Revival competition open to nominations and voting on community projects. The competition is UK wide and the total pot os £100,000 – so this is a fiscally efficient advertising campaign for Bovril.
Scotland currently has 8 nominated projects and one is in Argyll – Easdale Island.
Some of the parents of the children on Easdale Island form a Play Park sub-committee of Eilean Eisdeal (Easdale Island’s community development group).
This was set up to investigate opportunities for funding to replace the existing play park which has seen better days. It’s open to all and is used extensively by island and visiting children, creating a place for them to interact and socialise.
The parents on the sub-committee have involved the children in a redesign of the Play Park and they are asking for voting support to try and raise some funds for it through the Bovril competition.
The kids have set their heart on a pirate ship theme which will need around £15,000 in funding.
The community development company, Eilean Eisdeal, has agreed to contribute to the project and this tiny inhabited island with its population of under 100 is doing its best to attract a competitive vote in the contest.
With so small a population and a small local population in its fellow slate islands it has its work cut out so help from Argyll folk and their own friends will make a difference to its chances.
Maybe those who come annually from all over to the serendipitous Easdale World Stone Skimming Championships would also get the voting fingers twitching for the Isle of Easdale?
It’s a great measure of a healthy community when young families want to make their homes on the island, become part of the community and put their energies into developing it. The island is lucky to have energetic parents who are putting their efforts into community projects. It is also lucky to have so many school age children. It’s important that their lives on Easdale are as rewarding as possible, with their needs and aspirations addressed positively.
So – visit the Bovril Great Outdoors Revival competition and VOTE for the Easdale Island Play Park to help them try to raise the funds. Ask your friends and family to vote too. It won’t cost you anything. It’s an online vote so its free and quick – and as the gerrymanderers used to say, vote early and vote often.
The photograph – with Easdale Island in the distance, is by Norman Bissell of the Scottish Centre for Geopoetics on the nearby slate isle of Luing and is taken from Luing.
Shouldn’t the photograph be of Easdale Island? I think the photograph of a different village could lead to confusion – especially as the parents of children in the village shown are fundraising for their own play park elsewhere.
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For Lowry: Well spotted and apologies to Ellenabeich (the mainland village on Seil just opposite the Isle of Easdale and, confusingly, also called Easdale’) – and apologies to Seil Island, the other slate island community also fund raising for a Play Park (for Ellenabeich). The Seil project is not entered in the Bovril competition, so at least voters won’t have made the mistake we did. Photo now changed.
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