Raasay Community Hall
RAASAY COMMUNITY HALL
A central hub for the island’s cultural life, hosting a wide range of activities and events that cater to all generations within the community
Raasay Community Hall, located in Inverarish, is a modern, multi-purpose venue designed to serve the diverse needs of the local community. Opened in 2009, the hall was developed to accommodate a variety of activities, including sports, cultural events, and social gatherings.
The Hall is open between 11am – 5pm, Monday – Friday as a warm space.
Find out more about what’s on at the Hall
HALL FACILITIES
• Main Hall: the main hall is suitable for sports like indoor football, shinty, carpet bowls, and badminton. It also hosts concerts, ceilidhs, weddings, and film screenings .
• Meeting Room and Gallery: An upstairs meeting room and gallery provide a smaller space for gatherings such as coffee mornings, offering views over the main hall.
• Kitchen Facilities: A fully equipped kitchen is available to support events requiring catering.
• Changing Rooms and Storage: The hall includes changing rooms with showers for sports activities and storage areas for equipment.
• Gym
• WIFI
The hall’s design emphasises accessibility, with level entrances on both floors to accommodate individuals with mobility challenges along with disabled toilet facilities on both floors and baby changing.
BOOKING THE HALL
To book the hall please call 01478 660358 or email raasayhallbookings@gmail.com
BOOK EXCHANGE
For avid readers amongst you: also in the community hall, at the top of the stairs, is a bookcase with a wide range of books donated by members of the community.
They are there for you to sit and read or to take away and read. If you would like to take a book, please either replace it with one of your own, or put a donation into the box which sits on top of the bookcase.
All donations go towards the considerable upkeep of the hall and they are very gratefully received.
Thank you!
SUPPORT OUR HALL
We’ve registered with easyfundraising, it’s a great site where you can help Raasay Community Hall raise funds simply by doing your everyday online shopping!
Over 4,000 big name retailers are included, such as John Lewis, Uswitch, ASOS, Argos, Expedia, M&S, and BT.
Every time you shop, we receive a small donation to say ‘thank you!’ It’s completely free and over £31M has been raised for causes just like us so far.
We want to raise as much as possible so please sign up and help us at:
https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/raasaycomhall/…
NET
NET ZERO
Raasay Hall Reaches Net Zero!
In February 2025, as part of the Carbon Neutral Islands project, new solar panels were installed and are powering the hall, the project has even been extending the halls community service by exporting energy to grid, powering the kettles of Raasay. Thank the sun next time you have a cuppa!
Not only does this reduce the buildings emissions into the negative, it also makes running our community space a lot cheaper. In the event of a power cut the hall can operate from it’s battery bank.
COMMUNITY ART PROJECT
In 2016, some of the crafters joined with the children of Bun Sgoil Ratharsair (Raasay Primary School) working to produce a community art project. They produced a stylised map of Raasay with individual items representing places on the island. The artwork also has the crest of the MacLeods of Raasay worked in cross stitch on a specially woven MacLeod of Raasay tartan background, and a big length of the new Isle of Raasay Tartan draped down one side. The large artwork can be seen hanging in the stairwell of the community hall.
Isle of Raasay
Raasay.com is managed by Raasay Development Trust (RDT) on behalf of the Raasay community.
Photos credits: Calum Gillies , David Carslaw , Hannah Moore. Copywriting: Linsay MacLean.