June 2025:

We are a formal group, representing the betrayed beneficiaries of the deeds of trust of the Clan Donald Land Tust, and we are opposing the decision of the 4 absentee Trustees and CEO of the Clan Donald Lands Trust, to sell off the beautiful Armadale Heritage Centre, museum, genealogy centre, library and extensive botanical gardens and trails. The centre is of national cultural and historical importance and its closure will have a huge, economic and detrimental affect in the Sound of Sleat in the South end of Skye.

We require to appoint a lawyer to challenge them and their decision on the basis that their current actions are not in the best interests of the benefiaries of the trust, defy the purpose of the trust deeds, and betray the local community in Sleat.

The funding for legal fees and the running costs of our group is the purpose of this fundraiser. Should we be successful and there were surplus funds raised, this would go towards any future endeavours to support a newly invigorated heritage centre. If we were not successful and there were surplus funds raised, these would be given to a similar cultural heritage project in Scotland

We are based in Scotland, but with worldwide support.

Update: February 2nd 2026. The Save Armadale- The Clan Donald Campaign continue to fundraise hard for legal opinion, support and fees, in the wake of the conclusion of the sale of our CDLT lands and heritage assets on the Isle of Skye, in Scotland. To date we have appointed an experienced lawyer in Edinburgh, Scotland, and sought legal opinion from councel which has stated that the trustees may not have had the powers to sell the CDLT assets, and that the decision of the charities regulator may have been unlawful.

In the wake of the sale, we must now continue with our opposition to the CDLT trustees as they remain in control of our museum collection, our hugely valuable assets, and we believe we must fight on for their resignations or removal as trustees of the CDLT as they further exclude and distance the Clan Donald beneficiaries from our legacy and our assets. We believe that serious malgovernance issues at the CDLT which were ignored by the Scottish Charities Regulator require to be investigated, and that our museum collection is not is safe hands.

We believe we require further legal opinion and ongoing legal advice to persue our precious trust assets, and also to persue the Scottish charities regulator and have their woeful 'investigation' reopened and overturned. Any donations large or small are gratefully recieved in our endeavors to get justice for the people of the Clan Donald who they, and their forebears have invested heart, soul, and financed and funded this trust for generations.

Thank you.