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Relaunch of The Argyll Collection at Inveraray Castle
Wednesday (11th May 2011) saw a celebratory relaunch Continue reading
Kelvingrove hosts Cairndow exhibition – Our Houses: Their stories
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Heritage Lottery Fund application for Rothesay town centre
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Heritage Lottery Fund awards Cairndow’s Here We Are Centre £49,900
The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has awarded £49,900 to the development trust organisation, Here We Are, at the head of Loch Fyne, to investigate the social history of formerly tied houses at Cairndow.
Congratulating the organisation on its success, Argyll’s MSP, Jim Mather says: ‘This is a most welcome award by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the team at Here We Are are to be congratulated in bringing £49,900 into Argyll and Bute, especially at this time of time of financial constraint.
‘As well as stimulating interest locally in the history of the houses – which were at one time owned by the Ardkinglas Estate – and the people who lived in them, this will be an attraction to visitors to the area, especially if they have family connections. It will also generally enhance the tourist experience.
‘I look forward to the Our Houses-Their Stories project fulfilling the ambition not only to create a complete record of the buildings, their inhabitants through photographs, oral and written records, plans, maps and family trees, but also, offer the opportunity to learn new skills such as the conserving of paper and photographic records and how to record oral history, and in doing so bringing together all sections of the community’.
Heritage Lottery Fund head confirms Scottish heritage projects will lose out to 2012 London Olympics
Liz Forgan, Head of the National Lottery’s Heritage Fund is unhappy at the diversion of huge amounts of Heritage Fund cash diverted to the 2012 London Olympics. She concedes that ‘it has to be done’ but is concerned at the scale of the £9.2 billion budget.
She was speaking after the announcement last week that the Heritage Fund had now invested over half a billion pounds in Scotland. A £43,600 grant to a project in Inverclyde celebrating the engineer, James Watt, took their total spend in this country over the half billion threshold. Large-scale grants made include £18.1 million for the Riverside Museum in Glasgow; £17.7 million for updating the Royal Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh; and £13 million for the restoration of Glasgow’s Kelvingrove Museum.
The impact of the cash diversion to the London Olympics is pretty graphic when you look at the Heritage Fund’s figures. In 2006 the Fund’s annual budget was £330 million. In 2009 it will be £180 million.
Ms Forgan feels that one of the enduring problems for the fund is that politicians tend to see heritage projects as mainly for the middle classes. She singles out Glasgow as an exception to the rule – a place where heritage is not ‘an optional extra’ but ‘one of the key levers to regenerate the city’.