What is our community like?
- Most of the members of the community live in the Broadford/Breakish area in the south end of Skye, though there is one family on the offshore island of Raasay and one Bahá'í each in Struan and Portnalong. Nearly all the current members of the community declared locally. Thus we have no pioneers, though several have stayed on Skye in the past, including Pixie MacCallum, Alan Greive and Trish Wilkinson (who left the day after our first declaration!) and many prayers have been said on the island over the years.
- Because of our isolation, and the lack of any incoming Bahá'ís, the community is very much self taught (though we did have some 60+ visitors in the first year). There is a commitment to unity amongst the members of the community which is reflected in the high turnout at Assembly meetings and, conditions permitting, Feasts and Holy Day celebrations (though the numbers attending the monthly dawn prayers are somewhat more limited!).
- Three members of the community are, or have been, on the local Children's Panel; one is a member of the Bahá'í Council for Scotland. The LSA oversees the operation of a publishing house called Sapling Publications; Dayspring, the UK's Bahá'í children's magazine is created and edited by one of the community members, while another member of the community is responsible for the editing and distribution of The Scottish Bahá'í, the Scottish Council's newsletter.
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