Update May 2006
Highland 2007 promises to be a special year for the Highlands of Scotland. Thousands of events and activities will take place celebrating Highland culture in villages, towns and cities across the Highlands and beyond. It will be an exciting time to be in the Highlands – and we’re not going to miss out! Quite apart from a programme of events planned by our Community Support Worker Louise Wyllie and by Anna Barton on behalf of the Community Company, we also plan to be opening the doors of our new Community Hall during the summer months of 2007 which will be a historic occasion for our wee village. With that in mind we applied to Highland 2007 for financial assistance and we’ve just heard that we were successful. So it’s full steam ahead!
The tenders went out to several building contractors in the Highlands last month and the closing date is 22nd May. The project committee, the Architect and the QS will meet shortly afterwards, to consider the tenders submitted and award the contract. We are currently awaiting news of the Building Warrant from Highland Council which will allow us to get going.
In the last issue of the BoG Standard we promised that we would publish a list of the funding partners involved in our project. They are, in no particular order, The Big Lottery, HIE&EI, SCHRI, CERS, FutureBuilders, Highland Council, ERDF, Scottish Arts Council, Highland 2007, the Clothworkers Foundation, the Gannochy Trust, the Robertson Trust, the Garfield Weston Foundation, the Hugh Fraser Foundation, the Gordon Fraser Trust and, of course, the most important contributor – the Community.
Our local fundraising continues as once we have the new hall built, we will want to equip it to the best standards so that we can live up to our reputation of providing the best possible value for money venue for years to come.