ASSYNT.BIZ & OTHER ENTERPRISES

ASSYNT.BIZ is a trading company wholly owned by the Assynt Foundation. It is a separate legal body with independent directors set up to carry out profit-making activities. These profits are donated to the Assynt Foundation to allow the Assynt Foundation to carry out its charitable activities.
Current activities of Assynt.Biz include managing the letting of Glencanisp Lodge and managing the letting of red deer stalking.


OTHER ENTERPRISES

A growing number of local enterprises are developing, making use of Assynt Foundation land, buildings or other assets. All proposals for use of assets are considered individually on the basis of merit, feasibility and regulatory considerations.

CERAMICS

Ceramicist Fergus Stewart, in his workshop in one of the outbuildings behind the lodge. Find out more about Fergus's work here or by clicking on the picture.

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WRITING RETREATS

For a week of writing inspiration come to a writing retreat at Glencanisp Lodge in the north-west Highlands of Scotland. There are no qualifications required to come and no compulsory activities, just an opportunity for writers or other creative people to develop their work in progress in a peaceful and stunningly beautiful environment.

Mandy Haggith, who organizes the retreats, is a poet, novelist and non-fiction writer. Her novel, The Last Bear, won the Robin Jenkins Literary Prize and she is currently writing about the history of people in Assynt, thanks to a Scottish Arts Council award.

This is the fourth year Glencanisp Lodge has hosted writing retreats. Over this time, the retreats have provided space, tranquility and stimulation for more than 40 published and aspiring poets, short story writers and novelists including Margaret Elphinstone, Rodge Glass, Jason Donald, Paula Jennings and Colin Will.

For more information, check out the Top Left Corner website www.topleftcorner.org here, or contact Mandy at:
email: hag@worldforests.org
Phone: +44 (0)1571 844020
Mobile: +44 (0)7734 235704
Address: Top Left Corner, 95 Achmelvich, Lochinver, Sutherland, IV27 4JB, Scotland