The Scottish Government has announced a grant of £60,000 to support a major conference during 2009 Highland year of Homecoming. The Director of the initiative, Fiona Hampton, was also Director of Highland 2007, whose recently published evaluation report has just…
Argyl’s islands may be remote but let no one say that islanders are not enterprising. Argyll’s Isle of Coll is working hard to raise the funds to build a new Community Centre - an Cridhe (the heart). And all Colleachs are…
The scoring for each of Argyll’s five towns competing for £10 million funding for waterfront development has been published. The Independent consultants’ scores have produced the following rank order of bid:
Rothesay’s bid was for £2.4 million and Campbeltown’s for £6.5…
The challenge is ‘waterfront regeneration’. The prize pot is £10 million. The competitors are: Campbeltown, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Oban and Rothesay. The Outline Business Cases (OBCs) submitted by each town remain confidential until decisions are made.
While consultants are currently scoring the…
To mark the first anniversary of its being awarded the event, Glasgow has announced the launch of the 2014 Communities Fund. This is designed to build the foundations for an enduring benefit from the city’s hosting of the 2014 Commonwealth…
The Scottish Government has announced an additional £7.5 million of funding for Scottish athletes over the next three years to improve their medal chances at the 2012 London Olympic Games and towards the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.
At the…
The Awards for All scheme has made a highly significant contribution to community development across Scotland. It offers sums from £500 to £10,000 has supported all sorts of community projects, developing access to sport, arts, heritage and promoting interest in…
As reported earlier, Argyll’s Tayvallich community on Loch Sween entered into a commitment to raise the funds to buy the village shop, post office and coffee shop which had been put up for sale. A single business with these component…
This issue has been in the ether for some time. In the 1990s £13 million out a total of £190 million of EC grants to the UK was, according to the Commission, spent wrongly but not fraudulently. The EC will…
The council is awarding funding to Community Transport Operators across Argyll and Bute. This is being done under an initiative with a typically numbing title - ‘The Enhanced Demand Responsive Transport Initiative’. However leaden its name, the scheme offers funding…
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