Craggan Outdoors News

The weekend of 23rd-25th July 2010 saw Craggan Outdoors illustrate its flexibility & ideal nature as a relaxed venue for a variety of functions. Friday night saw us host a pre-wedding party for 75 guests. The glorious summer evening weather saw folk spread out across the lawn outside the Clubhouse, enjoying each other’s company, the buffet & bar, with the backdrop of golf course, fishery, Cromdales & Cairngorms.

On Saturday it was the turn of the Scottish Old Skool Escorts (http://www.scottisholdskoolescorts.co.uk/) to end their Highland Tour 2010 rally at Craggan Outdoors. After a day of driving around enjoying the roads & scenery of the Highlands, 30-odd superb examples of Mark I & II Ford Escorts parked up on the lawn beside the car park. After a day of driving the BBQ went down well, & the bar was well frequented! Roll on to Sunday morning & they’re all back again mid-morning to relax with tea, coffee & bacon rolls, & to show off their vehicles to each other, & also to a number of inquisitive & admiring locals.

So if you’re looking for a venue in the Aviemore - Grantown-on-Spey area of the Scottish Highlands for your function, then give us a call, send an email or just drop in & say “hi” to find out how Craggan Outdoors could be just the place!

invitation-to-charity-corporate-challenge-dayCraggan Outdoors has this year adopted ‘Water for Kids’ (http://waterforkids.org.uk/) as our corporate charity. Water for Kids is a small charity which provides safe water, sanitation and health education to children and communities in a number of developing countries.

Being fortunate to live in a country where we take the provision of safe water and sanitation for granted, at Craggan Outdoors we think it right to utilise the fact that we have a business that uses our abundance of water for leisure purposes, to highlight the developing world’s most basic need…the provision of safe water.

It is estimated that close to 1 billion of the world’s population - that’s 1 in 8 people - lack access to safe water. It is also estimated that each year around 3.6 million people - over half being children - die from water-related illness, 98% in the developing world. Lack of safe water claims more lives each year than war! Every 15 seconds a child dies from water-related disease.

Craggan Outdoors has already made a donation of £250 to start our link with WfK, & expect our year-end total from our donations of 50p from every water-based activity booking to take this figure to somewhere in the region of £700-£800.

On top of this though we want to give others the opportunity to support this critically important cause. For that reason Craggan Outdoors will host a corporate challenge day on Sunday 12th September, & YOU are invited to enter.

For an entry fee of £150 per team of six people - just £25 per person - you can bring a team of work colleagues, or just a group of friends or sports team-mates - it doesn’t have to be just corporate teams - for either a morning or afternoon of fantastic fun challenges on a range of our outdoor activities, whilst raising money for a great cause. The morning session will run from 10am to 1pm, & the afternoon session from 2pm to 5pm. A BBQ lunch will be provided for all participants between 1 & 2pm.

Interested?! Then don’t delay….get in contact with Keith Ballam at Craggan Outdoors on either 01479 873283 or info@cragganoutdoors.co.uk. We look forward to hearing from you.