Current Uses
Toward Castle is now a residential training centre operated by Actual Reality. Outdoor education activities include high ropes, kayaking, and orienteering, as well as gorge walks and hill walks. For younger children there are wide games, amongst other outdoor games. Its long history has led to a multitude of ghost stories, much perpetuated by the young people who visit.
The grounds of the outdoor education centre were used as a location for the children's BBC Television series Raven, featuring the actor James MacKenzie, up to and including the seventh series at the start of 2008.
As well as outdoor education, the house is also used for residential courses for young people in music and art. The Glasgow Schools' Symphony Orchestra and West of Scotland Schools' Concert Band visit regularly. The castle's composer-in-residence is John Maxwell Geddes, who wrote a Postlude for Strings in protest at plans to sell the castle.
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