Hazel Sutherland News Today

THE TURNAROUND in Shetland Amenity Trust’s finances in the last year has been “phenomenal”, according to chair Alison Moncrieff. She was speaking after accounts showed that the trust, which looks after Shetland’s cultural and natural heritage, recorded an in-year surplus...

A NEW photo exhibition which pays homage to the important role women have played in the fishing industry will open this weekend in Lerwick. The display, due to be held at the museum, is a collaboration between Shetland Amenity Trust and Shetland Arts. It opens on Saturday (13...

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LOCAL nurse and Fair Isle knitter Alison Rendall has been named the 2023 Shetland Wool Week patron during a launch event held at the museum on Friday evening. The much-anticipated annual hat pattern, which is synonymous with the launch of the patron was also released. Designed...

SHETLAND Amenity Trust has appointed local knitwear designer Donna Smith as the new curator of the annual wool week on a two year term. A firmly established name in the textile industry, Smith produces and hand dyes her own Shetland wool, Langsoond Yarn, and last year published...

A FRESH push is underway to find new owners for the derelict Park Hall building near Bixter. The C-listed building, constructed circa 1900 by a local doctor, is now on the market through estate agents Harper Macleod. Owner Shetland Amenity Trust initially invited expressions of...

SHETLAND Amenity Trust and Shetland Arts have announced plans to collaborate in financial management. Shetland Arts is recruiting a finance manager who will also work with amenity trust’s current finance team - sharing expertise across the two cultural and heritage charities....

SHETLAND Amenity Trust cut its deficit by around half over the last financial year - but some “difficult decisions” were made to keep the organisation sustainable. This included a restructure of management, which board chair Alison Moncrieff acknowledged was an unsettling...