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Wishaw based project awarded charitable status
A key focus of Go together is helping local people who are recovering from addiction issues. (Image: Stuart Vance/ReachPlc)
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A Wishaw-based project offering help and hope to people who are struggling has been awarded charitable status.
Our land
Inside Scotland’s inspiring struggle to give everyone a stake in the ground
beneath their feet and the lessons for confronting inequality everywhere
Let’s begin with a story about a man called Lord Rossmore. Rossmore was an Anglo-Irish aristocrat and MP who, in 1820, inherited an estate on the Isle of Arran off Scotland’s west coast through the dowry of his wife, the illegitimate daughter of the eighth Duke of Hamilton. One day, the new patriarch invited the village of Catacol, on his estate, to a party at his residence down in High Dougarie. Rossmore’s benevolence was soon thrown into doubt, however, when his servants barred anyone from leaving the residence early. When the villagers were eventually released, they returned home to find their cottages and runrig farmland had been set on fire and razed to the ground by Rossmore’s agents.
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