Welcome to the new website of The Andrew Raven Trust, launched in October 2011.

Ruth Little's keynote for Arts Council England & Festivals Edinburgh Talent Symposium 2011 explores the role of stewardship, connections and ecology as contexts for the development of talent. Ruth was a participant at our 2011 Paths weekend.

Simon Pepper, former Chair and Founding Trustee of The Andrew Raven Trust, considers nine factors that have emerged as characteristic of the Trust's annual weekends - the 'Ardtornish Academy'.

2011 has seemed a time of turbulence and change for many of us. We have witnessed the human consequences of the Japanese tsunami; the floods in Pakistan and Thailand; the earthquakes in Turkey. We have seen the equally challenging human consequences of economic instabilities in Europe and in wider Western economic systems.

The full scribing of our 2011 Annual Weekend, on the theme of 'Paths', is now available online in PDF and as a web page.

As part of The Trust's 2011 conference exploring the pleasure and significance of paths please join us in the Main Hall, Ardtornish House, Morvern at 10.00am Saturday 18 June for 'Paths and Fruits', a poetry reading by acclaimed Scottish poet Thomas A Clark chaired by Professor Nigel Leask of Glasgow University.