Image: Jewellery by Hannah Livingstone  at The Gallery The Craft Town Studios, Gallery and Initiaitve Centre are already busy gearing up for one of the busiest events of the year – 3rd December, Yuletide Night in West Kilbride! This is an ideal opportunity for locals and visitors to buy work, which is unique, beautifully designed [...]

WKCIL welcomed Fiona Hyslop, Minister for Culture to the village on Saturday morning. Accompanied by Kenneth Gibson MSP Maggie Broadley, Angus Kerr, Kay Hall and David Mann showed the Minister round the Craft Town studios, Gallery and Initiative Centre and finally on up to the Barony.  She was impressed with all that she saw and [...]

We have finally succeeded in raising our Big Lottery match funding target of £753,924 which will now enable us to draw down the equivalent sum from the Growing Community Assets award made by BIG Lottery Scotland last October.  It has been a tough challenge, particularly in the current economic climate and fierce competition from many [...]

The latest exhibition in the Gallery, Happyhills previewed on Friday 21st May, 2010. West Kilbride resident Euan McGregor finds constant artistic inspiration in landscape, and the fruits of that passion are evident in the work on show. Graduating from the Glasgow school of art in 1998, He has since exhibited in Scotland, London and Barcelona.

With the scaffolding up around the Barony and work already begun to remove the slates from the roof, Kenneth Gibson MSP made a return visit to West Kilbride on Monday, having supported the development plans and visited the Craft Town with the then Minister of Culture, Michael Russell, MSP and again with Alex Neil, Minister [...]

Katy Clark, Westminister election Labour Party Candidate,  had been unable to attend the recent Public meeting due to a previous official engagement but was keen to come back and catch up on progress after stating her support during a visit last summer, not long after having returned to work after the birth of her baby.

After the many years of planning and the honing of proposals, the community's Barony dream is becoming a reality with the official start on-site of Stewart & Shields building Contractors. Cranes have 'swung' into action, with containers which will house the site office and accommodation for the builders and trades hoisted over the Barony railings [...]

Directors and committee members of WKCIL were delighted with the response from those attending the  Public Meeting held at WK Village Hall on the 15th April, which attracted an audience of over 70 people from the Village and surrounding districts. The event was chaired by Angus Kerr, Barony Project Team leader and recently retired architect [...]

After a thorough tendering process and face to face interviews, the Barony Project Team is delighted to announce that the Barony Centre Enabling works contract has been awarded to Stewart & Shields.Stewart & Shields is a well-established builder, based in Helensburgh and operational across the West and Central area of Scotland. They provide a full [...]

The Barony Project Team rounded off the last year’s activities by selecting the Lead Consultant who will be responsible for completing the detailed design and project managing the construction phase of the Barony Centre. A short list of six extremely strong candidates was interviewed mid-December and WKCIL is delighted to have secured the services of [...]