Siol nan Gaidheal
Charitable donations and commemorative work

charitable work
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Press cutting, Siol Mk II, 1989
1989

Press cutting, Siol Mk II, 1989
1989

Press cutting, Siol Mk II, 1989
1989

Press cutting, Siol Mk II, 1989
1989

Press cutting, Siol Mk II, 1989
1989
donations

Honorary members, Assynt Crofters' Trust
Honorary Members, Assynt Crofters' Trust, February 1993

An Ti Son Muintntir Asaint (The land with the people of Assynt)
Siol nan Gaidheal is proud to have been able to contribute not only financially but ideologically to the successful buy out of their land by the crofters of Assynt.
This substantial victory, we hope, will be the first of many and that we will see the pattern of land ownership in Scotland changing. However with the ownership of land comes responsibility, not only for the land but to our language and people and to the ancestors from whom we derive our nationhood.
In celebrating this victory we should remember our heroes in the struggles to reclaim our land, heroes such as John MacPherson of Glendale, the people of Braes and the Seven Men of Knoydart.

Is treasa tuath na tighearna.
The people of the land are mightier than the lairds.

Laide and Aultbea Community Woodland Group - donation in 2004 towards community purchase of local woodlands.
Recorded in local donations book at the site.


Who owns Scotland
Donations made in 2005 and 2006 towards the continued running of this vital database.


April 2006 - Donation to Braco Primary School, Perthshire, to assist their general funds. A member of Siol did a sponsored 'hair and beard grow' for six months, and raised (including our donation) £1048 towards school funds.



Financial assistance to Kyle Young, representing Scotland in a martial sport unsupported by Scottish sports foundations - 2007.

commemoration



Siol at the MacRae memorial cairn, April 1990
from the Oban Times 12 April 1990



Bannockburn, March 2006
Organised and ran a commemoration at Bannockburn in March 2006
to commemorate the 700th anniversary of the coronation of Robert the Bruce
Speakers included Kevin Williamson, Iain Ramsay of the Celtic League and author David R Ross



The Stracathro Plaque, 2006

A plaque was unveiled at Stracathro Kirk on September 15th 2006, to commemorate the submission of King John Balliol to Edward I of England. This led to John's abdication from the throne, which was claimed by the hero King Robert the Bruce in 1306. Members of Siol nan Gaidheal, the minister and a class of local school children attended the unveiling of the plaque.






The Culloden Walk, 2006
Purchased two stones for the Culloden Walk in 2006,
one of which is dedicated to former member Willie MacRae.

Falkirk Cairn, 2007
Falkirk Cairn

Financial contribution to, and manual assistance in the construction of the Falkirk Cairn, under the aegis of the Society of William Wallace, May 2007.

Willie MacRae Cairn, 2008
Willie MacRae Cairn

Reconstruction and rededication of the cairn commemorating the assassination site of Willie MacRae, 6th April 2008.

Replacement of Dumfries flagpole and Saltire, 2009






Re-erection of the flagpole and Saltire on the site of Bruce's castle, 10th October 2009

activities

"The Gathering", 25th July 2009
End London Rule banner, Edinburgh

Dumfries, 9th August 2009
End London Rule banner, Dumfries

M8, 3rd October 2009
End London Rule banner, M8

Springburn, 6th November 2009
End London Rule banner, Springburn

Perth, 25th September 2010
End London Rule banner, Kinnoull Hill

End London Rule banner, Kinnoull Hill

End London Rule banner, Kinnoull Hill

Montrose, 26th September 2010
End London Rule banner, Montrose

Oban, 30th October 2010
End London Rule banner, Oban

End London Rule banner, Oban

Protest outside Labour Party Conference

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