Morvern Community Development Company

Morvern Community Development Company (MCDC) was set up in 1999 following encouragement from Morvern Community Council. In the years that followed and thanks to the incredibly hard work of a small number of staff and volunteers it has undertaken significant development projects in Morvern. Starting with the building and opening of the new fuel pumps in 2000, MCDC has grown to building Lochaline Harbour, Morvern Community Hub, Miner's Court (three one-bed houses) and Barr Hydro (the largest community owned renewable scheme in the UK). Over the years it has also been involved in other projects including purchasing The Hazel Woods (a beautiful area of community woodland in the heart of the village) and building the Allotments which are now run by Community Land Association Morvern (CLAM). MCDC is currently focused on the next phase of our housing project - building 14 family homes in Lochaline. 

MCDC has two subsidiary companies. The first, Morvern Community Trading Company (MCTC) was incorporated in 2013 and is now responsible for running the Fuel Pumps, Lochaline Harbour (including the new wood-fired sauna), Morvern Community Hub (including a meeting room) and the The Hub Café. The second, MorVolts, was incorporated in 2019 and is responsible for Barr Hydro. 

Each company has its own board and more information about our boards can be found here. If you are interested in becoming a director and would like more information, please get in touch via [email protected] 

MCDC aims to benefit the community of Morvern in the west coast of Scotland, a beautiful place which we are all lucky enough to live in. In 2021 MCDC worked alongside Morvern Community Council and Morvern Community Trust to commission a community vision and action plan to look forward to what the community hopes were for Morvern by 2031. The result was Live Life Morvern which was published in 2022 and is such a successful action plan that it won the Scottish Government's Scottish Planning Innovation Overall Award in 2024. We highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning more about our dynamic, vibrant community of Morvern.

The Morvern Peninsula

Morvern is a peninsula of hills, woodland and coastline in the west coast of highland Scotland. It is bounded by the Sound of Mull to the south and west, Loch Sunart and Glen Tarbet to the north and Loch Linnie to the east. Morvern’s two main population centres are Drimnin and Lochaline and it also comprises a number of traditional highland estates including Ardtornish Estate, Drimnin Estate, Killundine Estate, Kingairloch Estate, Laudale Estate and Rahoy Estate.

Morvern is home to a number of rare species. Golden Eagles soar above the treetops whilst pine martins scamper through gardens. Otters bask on sunlit rocks up and down our coastline whilst deep under the surface glide flapper skate. There are numerous projects locally to monitor and improve our biodiversity including the Rahoy Nature Reserve and Caolas (Community Association of Lochs and Sounds) which was set up to help increase understanding and conservation of our local marine environment and in recent years have begun a project to reintroduce native oysters back into Lochaline.