Còmhradh, Craic is Cofaidh (360G-BNG-TFC-2024-01244)

Due to the pandemic, the opportunities for us to promote Gaelic in our community have reduced. Thanks to funding from BnG in 2022, we were able to restart promoting GME through an increased online presence and flyers/banners in the community. Our toddler and preschool early years leaders have played a vital role in attracting new families to become part of GME in Nairn and numbers are rising again. However, the opportunities for us to come together and for parents to learn the language, have not fully returned.  We would like to organise monthly weekend gatherings for pre-school and P1-3 parents. In these sessions, we would provide informal language lessons (helping parents learn a few key phrases to use at home; support on pronunciation; some grammar basics etc). We will have a small Gaelic library for families to borrow books, along with links to SoundCloud. We will have guests such as local Gaelic musicians, Bookbug, artists,  etc to support with activities for the children. We believe this will be a vital way to support families with children at the start of their GME journey while building a stronger community feeling. To further support GME families in using Gaelic outside the classroom we would like to run a shinty summer camp for the benefit of all GME children (P2-S6) and support the weekly Gaelic afterschool club for P1-7, where we would bring in local Gaelic artists, filmmakers, drama teachers, etc plus two events with Spòrs Gaidhlig - orienteering (P1-S6) + paddleboarding (P5-S6).