Tartan Week Lochcarron

12/08/2025

Get your steps in line ready for Tartan Week Lochcarron!

07/05/2025

Tartan Week Lochcarron was the outcome of a SCOTO lead (Scottish Community Tourism) workshop. Back in February this year, SCOTO invited Lochcarron to present the story of Tartan Week Lochcarron at their annual conference in Montrose. Here are a few photographs from the event. Rob Wilkinson went along to tell our story. With special thanks to Lochcarron Weavers Heritage Shop who very kindly kitted him out in Highland Dress. Rob asked the delegates of the conference to wear a short length of tartan ribbon (shown in one of the photographs), in memory of the late Peter Barr, who came up with the original idea for Tartan Week Lochcarron.

The presentation Rob gave included photographs of all the events that took place, organised by our amazing community, and talked about the exciting week of events being planned for this year.

02/05/2025

02/04/2025

Job opportunity

We have an exciting opportunity for a Retail Manager to join our team, running our Lochcarron Weavers Heritage shop in Strathcarron, Wester Ross.

Based in our Lochcarron Weavers Heritage Shop in Wester Ross as retail manager your responsibilities and tasks will include:

• Welcome, assist & give advice to our customers on our products & ensure our high standards of service are met at all times.
• Assisting customers on our Highland Dress, measuring, fitting, ordering and tracking deadlines.
• Cash handling, responsible for stock control & processing customer orders.
• Ordering, replenishing & displaying the merchandise within the shop & manage the implementation of seasonal changes in product launch and layout.
• Managing, training & developing staff, ensuring that there are adequate staff at peak times.
• Liaising with our Marketing & e-commerce teams to coordinate product launches & promotions including local events.

For more information about this position take a look at our advert on indeed | https://uk.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=cdf61a3b3830c340&from=shareddesktop_copy

Please apply in writing by submitting a CV and cover letter outlining your suitability for the position to [email protected]

14/02/2025

Planning is underway! Tartan Week Lochcarron will take place from 26th September to 5th October 2025.

This is a week of fun events and activities - open to all groups and businesses to take part in any way that suits! We are activitely seeking sponsorship in particular from local Businesses, to ensure that community/voluntary organisations can get involved. The event in Sept 2024 was our first, and proved to be a great success. We hope to expand the event this year and have some great ideas of things to do.

If you would like to take part, let us know what you'd like to do?

We would love to see the village fully decorated with Tartan Flags
and Bunting, and it would be great if we can get people involved in making it to share around. What else can we do to decorate?

We have another planning meeting coming up on the 24th March at The Village Hall, more info to follow but everyone is welcome to come along and get involved.

For any info or to express an interest is doing something during the week, please contact [email protected]

13/02/2025

Reminder of our meeting tonight - planning for Tartan Week 2025! 7.30pm at The Lochcarron Centre

22/10/2024

For all those who had fun at Balnacra Arts & Pottery by Vicky Stonebridge

16/10/2024

Calling all Tartan Week Lochcarron Fashion Show models. Please DM, call/text/WhatsApp on 07977 098 410 so that I can provide you with access to the larger selection of photographs form the Fashion Show. If you know of one of the models and they're not on FB, I'd be grateful if you could pass them my details, thank you.

11/10/2024

Thanks so much to West Highland Free Press for this week's article about Tartan Week Lochcarron. Copies are available locally. Nice photos of the at Lochcarron Village Hall, the Quilters and Stitchers exhibition at The Lochcarron Centre and of one of Vicky's workshops at Balnacra Arts & Pottery by Vicky Stonebridge

Meanwhile Rob's photos are still available to peruse on this page or on his website: https://bobteddyimages.shootproof.com/ (click on the tartan logo)

07/10/2024

And that's a wrap! Thank you to everyone who organised, took part, watched and listened to events and activities during the inaugural Tartan Week Lochcarron. This event was all about our wonderful village and community and the support shown by everyone has been wonderful. Here's a final image of Lochcarron for this year's Tartan Week... even the Northern Lights made an appearance for us! See you next year... we will provide further updates soon, but if you've got an idea, then share it... this is your Tartan Week.

06/10/2024

Our final evening of Tartan Week Lochcarron; traditional story telling Ceilidh at The Rockvilla. What a lovely way to wind down the week. Thanks to Vicky for organising and The Rockvilla for hosting. And of course, thanks to our story tellers!

06/10/2024