RUMSTER OUTDOOR CENTRE MANAGEMENT GROUP
CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 2025
I am delighted to be able to report that 2025 was the year in which all our hard work finally came to fruition. The gremlins which caused endless frustrating delays in 2024 all flew away and the building, as you will all be aware, was constructed on site in July. The camp kitchen was also completed apart from a few, final, cosmetic touches which will be done in the Spring when the weather improves.
With everything in place, we held a very successful opening day in August.
We have also attracted our first business for the site. Caithness and Sutherland Womens’ Aid held a very successful event and look like they may come back.
Attracting business to the site must now, of course, be the main objective of the organisation and the board is already discussing how this might best be achieved whether by recruiting someone with relevant skills onto the board or by paying an outside organisation to provide a service. We are hopeful that, one way or another, this will not prove too difficult given the high level of interest shown in our facility.
We held one very successful site work day with the help of Caithness Environment Volunteers and we are again indebted to Tom and Sarah Whelan for cutting the grass on site thereby saving us a huge amount of work.
Finally, as always, I would like to thank my colleagues on the Board over the past twelve months for their support and for all the work they have done and to wish next year’s Board even more hard work and just a bit more success.