Members of the Scottish Bahá’í community have praised the beauty of Millport after visiting Cumbrae for their annual residential summer school event.

Including day visitors, a total of 142 people took part in the event, with the majority coming from different parts of Scotland, others from the rest of the UK, and some coming from the Faroe Islands, Scandinavia and even the United States.

The event ran from July 20-24, with attendees joining in with creative activities including arts and crafts and music and song, and reviewed more than a century of the Bahá’í Faith’s deep and meaningful associations with Scotland.

They now look forward to how they could promote positive, progressive ways of bringing people together to improve the quality of life throughout society.

Members of staff from Interfaith Scotland came for one day, to run a version of their Interfaith café conversation at the summer school.

The Bahá’í Faith is the youngest of the major world religions, based on the teachings of Bahá’u’lláh, who lived in the Middle East during the nineteenth century.

Bahá’ís around the globe work to overcome all forms of prejudice, promote the equality of women and men, uplift the downtrodden and foster economic justice.

There are around eight million Bahá’ís throughout the world, with around six thousand in the UK.

The residential summer school was hosted by the Bahá’í Council for Scotland.

The council’s chair, Mrs Carmelia Carew, said, “We had a lot of fun as friends and families, being creative together, working through ways that we can apply the Bahá’í teachings to the the problems of today’s world, large and small.

"We set ourselves some big goals, but we love devising new and imaginative contributions to meeting some of life’s biggest challenges.

"We’ve been involving everyone at the summer school in our plans and activities, whether young or old.

"The venue was great, the island is beautiful and the local people cheery and welcoming.”