Previous Grant Awards

Community Enhancement Trust 2023/24

The Community Enhancement Trust funded community groups to assist in the:

  • Advancement of community development.
  • The advancement of the arts, heritage, culture or science, including the upkeep of heritable assets.
  • The provision of recreational facilities, or the organisation of recreational activities, with the object of improving the conditions of life for the persons for whom the facilities or activities are primarily intended.

Applications were open April 2023 – March 2024 or until available funds were spent.  A total of £8,242.15 was awarded to ten community groups:

Locality

Group Name

Amount £

Project

Berwickshire

Allanbank Arts

500.00

Creative Group Project

Berwickshire

Keeping Duns Blooming Marvellous

788.00

Circular planters to the railings around the trees of the square.

Berwickshire

Coldstream Twinning Association

1,500.00

Bennecourt Twinning Visit

Berwickshire

Greener Duns

180.00

Raise awareness of how reduce, reuse and recycle waste

Cheviot

William Wallace Trust

79.88

Enhance access to Viewpoint and Statue maintenance

Eildon

Lauderdale Library

1,681.73

Running Costs Support

Eildon

Dryburgh Churches

530.00

Newtown Come & Sing Choir. Hall Hire costs, new music

Teviot & Liddesdale

Hawick Rugby Football Club

2,382.54

Joint Exhibition 100 years Bill McLaren + 150 years Hawick RFC

Tweeddale

St Andrews Leckie Church

300.00

Art Classes for young vulnerable neurodivergent young people

Tweeddale

West Linton & District Historical Association

300.00

Print census Information for the Archive

 

Total Granted:

  8,242.15