The Community of Arran Seabed Trust (COAST) officially opened its doors at the Octopus Centre last Saturday with an opening ceremony that coincided with the 10-year anniversary of establishing the Lamlash Bay No Take Zone.
Speaking at the event COAST director Paul Chandler thanked everyone in the community for playing a part in helping to establish and advance the organisation, without whom he said, it would not be in the position that it was in.
The occasion was marked with a number of speakers ranging from Kenneth Gibson MSP, Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s Terry A’Hearn, Planet Earth II film-maker John Aitcheson and COAST co-founder Howard Wood, to local speaker Colin Guthrie, who recited a poem dedicated to the organisation.