Case Studies

Our aims were to promote, preserve and enhance the dancing heritage of Orkney.  Our Summer Special & October Hoolie events achieved this.

We organised 10 Dark Skies Talks which included walks when the weather was suitable

We were very pleased with the way the Festival went. We organised eight events over four days, and using unusual and atmospheric venues, including the Old School Quoyloo, St Peter’s Church Sandwick, the cathedral, and the always-popular Betty’s Reading Room.

Our project was to publish selected works of much-loved Orcadian writer Bessie Skea (known as ‘Countrywoman’) during 2023, the centenary of her birth.

We very much wanted to run a summer school. It has not been possible to do this for three years. We understand how much our pupils benefit from weeklong intensive tuition and from the specialist input of guest tutors from Orkney and beyond.