Wild North Festival 2012

7th September 2012

A Festival to Celebrate the Natural and Cultural Heritage of the North Highlands
You Like Wild - check the three areas festival programmes here:-
28 September - 2 October 2012 - Mackay Country, Sutherland
3 -­ 10 October 2012 - Assynt, Sutherland
10 - 14 October - Castletown to John o'Groats, Caithness

For full details see the wild North Web site at
http://northhighlandsscotland.com/wildnorthfestival/

The Wild North Festival is a new initiative which focuses on encouraging enjoyment, understanding and awareness of the rich natural heritage of the North Highland area through events and activities for visitors and local people. It is hoped that the 2012 pilot festival will be shaped into an annual moveable feast of North Highland culture, activities, nature and heritage. All events being held in the name of the Festival will have a direct or indirect link to the environment and to the cultural and natural heritage of the area.

Wild North Festival is a grassroots community based festival which showcases the individual beauties of the vast area of the North Highlands. This festival will allow you access the wealth of idiosyncratic smaller community events and also their more high profile events and activities.

The Wild North Festival Steering group members who are working with the local communities are:

Caithness Biodiversity Group
Caithness Horizons
Caithness Partnership
Highland Council Ranger Service
Highlands and Islands Enterprise
CVO North West Sutherland
North Highland Initiiative
North Highland Tourism
Scottish Natural Heritage
Scottish Rural Development Council
Sutherland Partnership
UHI