The Big Shed Loch Tay
The Big Shed on Loch Tay in Highland Perthshire is our bright, modern, community building.
It provides affordable work and meeting spaces for locals, for community groups, for social enterprises, for small businesses, and for private individuals. Sustainability, particularly sustainable rural livelihoods, is high on our agenda so we're keen to encourage people from beyond the local area, who promote creative, one-planet lifestyles, or engage in environmental improvement and protection, to use the building.
Our timber-framed eco-building was built using local, natural, renewable and reclaimed and recycled materials. In 2013 it shared top spot with the Scottish National Portrait Gallery as joint winner of the Low Carbon Building Award.
The Big Shed sits within a tiny rural settlement, at the heart of Tombreck Farm. The farm is adjacent to the Ben Lawers National Nature Reserve, and we enjoy uninterrupted views over Loch Tay. On site, you'll find a sandy lochside beach, natural woodlands, large open spaces and mountains, all rich in flora, fauna and archaeological heritage.
The Big Shed Loch Tay is a Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation, (SCIO054581).
Its constitution states that it has been formed to manage and maintain the multi-function community resources of the Big Shed, Tombreck, Lawers for the benefit of the communities of the Glenlyon & Loch Tay, Killin, and Kenmore & District Community Council areas and communities of interest from across Scotland for the following purposes:
- a) The advancement of citizenship & community development
- b) the provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.
- c) the advancement of environmental protection or improvement
