Port Erin Commissioners will be working with a group of Community Rangers to fix some of the village’s dry-stone walls.
Chair Hannah Mackenzie says it’s a “fantastic opportunity” for the group, from Destination First, to learn a new skill in exchange for the wall being fixed – and hopes it will be able to offer the service across the island.
The group will be repairing the ancient walls around The Rowany Golf Club.
The local authority will provide the group with the stone and interim clerk Phil Gawne, an expert on dry stone walling, will provide support to the rangers.
Mrs Mackenzie says she’d like the board to work with the rangers in the future to help repair footpath markers and poles.
Local Democracy Reporter Emma Draper has been speaking to her: