Our logo shows the iconic Aignish Land Raid monument positioned on the Braighe isthmus which connects together the districts of Point and Sandwick on the Isle of Lewis (pictured above).
This award-winning monument by artist Will MacLean commemorates the Aignish Land Raids of January 1888, representing the confrontation between the local crofters and their families and the armed Marines and police who were dispatched to stop them. The Aignish raid was one of a number of crofter raids on landed estates across the Highlands and Islands. Although the Crofters Act had been passed in 1886 granting security of tenure to crofting tenants, this did not address the issue of the cottars, who were landless, and land raids continued intermittently up until 1952.
As a Trust, we couldn’t be more proud to own and operate the Beinn Ghrideag wind farm on the common land that the crofters fought for, and to use its income for the benefit of all in the community. The Gaelic phrase in the logo, 'Coimhearsnachdan Comhla', means 'Communities Together'.