Here is the draft of Strathavn Airfield's latest accounts. You will note that the majority of the income comes from hangarage and club membership fees.
uring the year, we spent £40,000 on a robot runway mower. Despite a large amount of grant funding, the purchase still put a strain on the airfield's finances and you will note that one director has loaned the airfield around £7,000.

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This guidance on the regulations provides local authorities in Scotland with information that will assist when considering the disposal of land.
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This is our analysis of the statue, and how we would meet its requirements.

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Our advert in the West Highland Free Press, 18th Arpil 2025.

The aim is to explain our project and hear feedback from local residents.

This is a report for energy developers about forthcoming changes to the National Grid access. Big changes in access forecast for Scotland.

To read the consultant's full report, visit:  https://locogen.com/uk-grid-reform-what-onshore-renewable-developers-need-to-know/

Or please click here for a downloaded copy.

First response from our Letter of Intent, outlining some council thoughts.

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Monday 27th January 2025: Initial letter of intent submitted to Highland Council.

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This is an update the local councillor made to Broadford & Strath Community Council in December 2023.
We appreciate that the airfields are a tiny part of Highland Council's budget, but as the old saying goes: Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves!

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Strathaven Airfield Ltd is a not-for-profit Scottish company limited by guarantee with an asset lock.

These are its Articles of Association, which would be the draft for West Highland Airfields. Note: there is an asset lock, no dividends payable and a limit on interest payable on debts.

It is possible for the company to pay staff, such as an airfield manager. Its accounts are public information on the Companies House website, as well as its own.

Necessary ammendments for WHA Ltd would be to have at least 20 members.

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This is the report that covers the income/expenditure and future plans for the three airfields: Plockton, Broadford and Dornoch.

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A report was made to the council on options and progress on the three airfield, Plockton, Broadford and Plockton.

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HIE offer support for new community businesses....but! Click here to view their site.

Community Assets Knowledge Exchange: £2,000 (90% grant) for up to three people to visit a community scheme and learn.
Scottish Land Fund: support to own community land,  but.... "defined by a geographic area".  Are a disparate group of aviators "defined by a geographic area!?
Community Right To Buy: £5,000 (80% grant) to community bodies seeking a pre-emptive right to buy the land in which they have registered a community interest.  

Support for community-led businesses: Support is available for social enterprises based in the Highlands. Will that cover us, since we are not yet based there?

NO. Missed the 01 April deadline, so next grants decision not until end-September.

Only then could we spend it on company registration, legal advice and surveyors fees. (and we would need that to open a bank account!)
All that is are required by Highland Council before we could aplly for an Asset Transfer.

NO.  Under eligibility:

• If your proposed social enterprise requires premises before it can start trading, you have already identified these premises and obtained an agreement in principle.

Again, Highland Council  requires the legal and financial stuff that this would fund before we could discuss acquiring the premises (airfields).

Not only permanently fee-free for turnover less than £100,000, but also includes free subscription to Free Agent accounting software (which we use at Strathaven Airfield!).

Full details here.

FreeAgent accounting software comes included free with RBS Business/Community banking. We use it at Strathaven Airfield - and it can even produce your corporation tax returns!

Full details here.

At Strathaven Airfield, we use 12ft international airport size windsocks from the Windsock Company. 

Current price with wire harness - recommended for wind areas! - is £197 + VAT.
They last 18 months.

A bit cheaper - albeit without mast - than the £10k Broadford estimate!

Awaiting report from Strathaven Airfield's broker.

This is critical - we had an £850,000 claim just a few years after taking over Strathaven, so I know about insurance! It was a (successful) claim by us against a neighbour.

At Strathaven, we have two Stihl imows - one for the apron and one for the picnic, camping and overflow parking area.
Fantastic machines and they create a marvelous lawn!
One was free from Stihl, the other from Loganair's Green Skies fund.
Might be just the thing to keep the grass at the sides of the runway mown?

Environmentally-friendly too - no diesel and it just shaves the grass, so no waste clippings!

UK Regional and Business Airport Group's submission about Skye commercial flights plan and economic contributions. To read, please click here

A weather station with no moving parts! So easy maintenance.

https://shop.tempest.earth/products/tempest-uk

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