Black Isle and Easter Ross Area Committee grant the funding green-light to 16 projects

The Black Isle and Easter Ross Area Committee have given the green-light to all 16 funding applications submitted to the Community Regeneration Fund.

Black Isle and Easter Ross Area Committee members on January 22 approved Community Regeneration Funding for a range of local projects, which promise to benefit the community.

Community Regeneration Funding (CRF) is an umbrella term for a number of funds that are available for communities and organisations to access in Highland.

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It comprises elements of the UK Government’s Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) along with the Highland Coastal Communities Fund and the Place Based Investment Programme, both of which are Scottish Government Funding streams to support economic regeneration and sustainable development in the Highlands.

Money available to fund local projects in the Black Isle and Easter Ross area was £536,611, and every application was approved for funding since the 16 funding applications totalled at only £511,220, leaving cash to spare in the Community Regeneration Fund.

The community projects which were granted funding were:

• Cromarty and Resolis Film Society: Improving Cinema Accessibility project. –£35,815.
• Culbokie Community Trust: Culbokie Village Hub's toilets and potting shed stage. – £30,000.
• Ferintosh Community Hall: essential external wall repairs. – £30,216.
• Fearn Amenities (SCIO): Fearn Abbey Commission work on a Feasibility Study and Business Plan for possible Community Asset Transfer of the Abbey by Fearn Amenities SCOI. – £20,640.
• Tain and Fearn Free Church: first phase of a new build development to serve the congregation and community activities. –£46,000.
• Fox and Friends Highlands: Fox Trots project, which aims to provide adult only clubs and events in Easter Ross, Cromarty and Tain, helping to combat social isolation among adults. – £30,000.
• Inver Football Club: Osprey Park Community Sports Facility Project. – £9,200.
• North Kessock Village Hall: village hall enhancements to be fully accessible, secure and sustainable. – £50,000.
• Ross Sutherland Rugby Club: community space, sound proofing and kitchen completion. – £25,000.
• Tain Heritage Trust: Phase 3 works, re-instatement of toilets in main building – £65,000.
• Tain Initiative Group (TIG): to enable the TIG to progress a development of the site known as Mrs Baxter’s with consultation with stakeholders and the community. – £33,000.
• Seaboard Memorial Hall: Village Entrances Project. – £43,643.
• Evanton Community Trust: to employ a Community Development Project Manager to take forward existing projects and develop future ones. – £28,860.
• Fearn Amenities (SCIO): Refurbishment of Playing Field Pavilion. – £12,006.
• Seaboard Community Polytunnel Group CIC : needs must fixtures and fittings. –£9,000.
• The Place Youth Club – The Place Drop In/The Field: funding for a Senior Youth Worker and rental costs and help meet demand as numbers have doubled. – £42,840.

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