TIG Sponsorship 

Tighean Innse Gall are pleased to approve sponsorship of £1000 to Sgoil Lionacleit & Castlebay Junior Pipe Band to assist with travel costs to attend the Scottish Schools Competitions.   They have recently commenced a drum tuition program for 51 pupils from all schools throughout Uist & Barra, and many of these students incur considerable travel and subsistence costs to attend pipe band practice and mainland competitions. We wish the drumming students well with their training and we all look forward to hearing the Pipe Band play at some point in the future.

TIG Sponsorship

Tighean Innse Gall believes in supporting local community groups and projects, recently TIG were approached by the Lewis & Harris Horticultural Producers (LHHP) for support to provide solar powered electricity in their off-grid shed to power lights, 240 volt sockets and to provide hot water.

Their project aims to ascertain the needs of the shed and its potential to create its own energy, reducing the need for conventional power and reducing carbon.

They hope to become another community group achieving alternative energy production. TIG’s Management Committee were happy to approve sponsorship of £1000 towards LHHP’s costs and they propose to install a plaque on their building to acknowledge TIG’s support.

TIG wishes the LHHP all the best with their project and we look forward to getting updates on progress as it goes along.

TIG Sponsorship

TIG are proud to have sponsored two local projects run by Rural Nations CIC:  The Digiheb Young People’s film making project and the Hebrides International Film Festival (HIFF2017).

Digiheb delivers a weekly skills development programme for young people, between the ages of 14 and 25, facilitating them to make their own short films which could also be used for College or University entrance.    The films made by the group are showcased annually at An Lanntair Arts Centre in Stornoway and also go on to be entered into various Young People’s Film Festivals.

The HIFF2017 screened world cinema, including environmental documentaries and dramas about small islands and indigenous people, and the screenings were shown in nine local rural venues from Ness to Barra over a four day festival in September 2017:   free screenings were also shown to 508 school pupils across the Outer Hebrides.  The theme of the festival was Islands and Environments, selecting work made in the last three years that connected with island communities, environmental issues, native cultures and rural life.

Rural Nations was granted lottery funding among other various successful funding applications as well as £1000 sponsorship from TIG, which was split between Digiheb and HIFF2017.   The 2017 Festival was programmed by Muriel Ann Macleod, Creative Director of Rural Nations CIC and further information is available on their website:  http://www.ruralnations.com

If you are a local community group or club which could benefit from sponsorship towards a particular event or project, please get in touch with info@tighean.co.uk for an application form and more details.  TIG will consider events which would generate local, regional or national publicity.  The only thing we ask in return is that you publicise TIG and its aims, and help to raise our profile within the communities we serve.

TIG Sponsorship

Outer Hebrides Ladies Shinty Team

In November 2014, TIG approved a Sponsorship Policy to allow community groups or individuals to apply for funding to support a local event or provision.   The underlying purpose of this policy is to raise the profile of the Association and these groups will be expected to allow TIG to publicise our involvement and display our logo at their events.

In 2015 we were proud to sponsor the Outer Hebrides Ladies Shinty Team and the ladies played their debut competitive match in their new strips sponsored by TIG with the new re-branded TIG logo.

In July 2016 we were also pleased to sponsor the Lewis & Harris Youth Football Association with sponsorship to attend a football development festival in Edinburgh, representing the Western Isles, also displaying our logo on items of their kit.

TIG has also recently agreed to sponsor a local young people’s film making project for the Hebrides International Film Festival 2017.  They will be screening over the whole of the Western Isles and we will gain the opportunity to advertise our own promotional video to potentially over 1500 people over the three-day event.