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North Highland Initiative
Notes About
The North Highland Initiative
North Highland Initiative
was established to boost the economy of the North Highlands of Scotland by
promoting its produce, tourism and the built environment. Prince
Charles launched the Mey Selections brand in August 2005. North Highland
Products Ltd was supported by an award of £71,000 from the Scottish
Executive under its Marketing Development Scheme with some additional
support from Caithness Enterprise and the Nuclear Decommissioning Agency.
North Highland Products is also funded by a small amount of money put in
by an initial group of farmers and from an ongoing levy on producers to
assist with administration and marketing costs. For its Mey Selections
brand, North Highland Products selects and sources only the highest
quality farm and food products from within a hundred miles radius of the
Castle of Mey. The brand was set up to focus initially on the prime beef,
lamb and mutton reared in the area, although it was anticipated from the
outset that other quality foods from the region, such as fish, honey, jam,
cheese and pork would be added to the range once the business was
established.
The second phase of the
NHI was the launch of a tourism marketing strategy which focuses on the
idea of
“Pleasure in the Extreme”, rooted in the physical and environmental
extremes that exist in the North Highlands. The Built Environment is
phase three of the North Highland Initiative and was launched by Prince
Charles in July 2007. One of the aims of phase three "The Built
environment" is to bring back into use vernacular buildings that have
fallen into disuse or are neglected in one way or another and regenerate
them with a new lease of life with a modern use.
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