Our projects
As Callander Community Development Trust grows so, too, does our capability to undertake more projects. Our primary aim is to help make the town a better place in which to live and work. And, as Callander's clutch of awards during 2008 demonstrate, the work of CCDT and of its member organisations does a great deal to raise the town's profile further afield.
2010 is set to be a busy year for CCDT and our partner organisations. Our most ambitious new project is Friends of St Kessog's, which is an initiative to raise funds for the acquisition and development of St Kessog's Church as a community culutural and events centre. We are also continuing to spruce up Callander in our annual Spring Clean and Greening of Callander initiatives.
To find out more about our work please follow the links on the right-hand side of this page where you will find links to a dedicated page for each of our projects.
Other member organisations
Several other organisations are represented on our Board: Callander and District Heritage Society, Callander Community Council, Council of Churches, Callander Enterprise, Callander Youth Project, Woodland Link and the schools.
Not all of them have websites yet, but those that do are listed below. To find out more about some of these groups and the work that they are doing for Callander's community please follow the links below:
- Callander and District Heritage Society
- Callander Community Council
- Callander Enterprise
- Callander Youth Project
- McLaren High
We need your support!
We currently run Callander Community Development Trust on a shoestring and with very few volunteers. To expand our range of projects we need more funds and more helping hands. Please consider joining CCDT. At a fiver a year it's a bargain! For more information and an application form, please click here. And even if you don't want to become a member, you're welcome to participate in our community projects. For contact information please click here.
Top: Ancaster Square in Autumn.
Bottom: The Bracklinn
Falls. Photos: Ali Reid
More news in the BLV
Monthly updates on CCDT's activities appear in the print edition of the Ben Ledi View community newspaper. Click here for the BLV's website. If you read about a CCDT project in which you'd like to get involved, please do not hesitate to email CCDT.
Project links
Please click on the links below to jump to each project's page.
Friends
of St Kessog's is our fundraising initiative to create a community
events and arts centre for Callander. Please take a moment to find out
how you can help and participate in this venture, which is so important
to the town. Read more. 
Every year more and more individuals and businesses are doing their bit
to brighten up the Main Street with window boxes and hanging baskets.
This is a great opportunity for budding gardeners to brighten up the
town. Read
more.
Callander and Climate Change are seeking to work in and with the community of Callander to support a pilot project which will measure, monitor and reduce carbon emissions from energy use in the home and from travel. Read more at Callander Climate Change
Earlier this year Callander Development Trust secured £108,900 for a
Bridge
Project at the fantastic Bracklinn Falls. Read
more.
Turning water into cash - sounds too good to be true - with all the
rain we get. Callander certainly has an abundant supply of water as a
natural resource and it seems a shame to waste it. Read more.
The Callander Community Development Trust would like to invite all
amateur photographers to visit the Loch Lomond & The Trossachs
National Park with cameras in hand. Enjoy your time here and share your
beautiful memories by submitting your photos to our ScottsLand 2010
competition. Read
more.
