The funding has helped us upgrade the Fornighty Hall so it is fully accessible for all. We now have a disabled access ramp, disabled parking bay, disabled access toilets and modern kitchen which can benefit the local community for the next generation. Additionally, the hall has been repaired and painted, and improvements made to the heating and lighting to be energy efficient. The hall is now fit for purpose and can be used for the next generation.
The generous support of the Berry Burn Community Fund has truly set the community garden of Forres Friends of Woods and Fields onto a whole new footing, bringing new interests and satisfactions to the team as well as encouraging new volunteers to join us.
Strathspey Rovers would like to take this opportunity to thank Berry Burn Community Fund for providing a grant to update its ancillary storage area at the community scout hut in Grantown for the purpose of secure and safe storage of equipment. The storage area was showing desperate signs of age and deterioration, with no way to privately secure the facility and safeguard expensive training equipment procured by the club. This fund has provided modern high security French doors, framed shelving and lockable cupboards which is a huge advantage to our club going forward. The works were undertaken locally by Colin Lawson (Builders) Ltd and completed in June 2023. Thank you. Regards Andrew Sunde, Chair.
With the help of the funding offered by BBCF Moray School Bank were able to support 175 children across the BBCF area in 2022/23 by providing school uniform and warm winter items, allowing them to attend school, happy, confident and ready to learn.
The turbines which helped generate this funding for Logie Primary are close to our school, and a very direct reminder of how our community is being helped by this money. We are delighted that the Berry Burn Community Fund has enabled us to make more of the space we have at school, and that we were not told – as schools often are – that money ‘should’ come from the local authority. Sometimes, it simply cannot, and we are grateful that the local community benefit fund was able to fill that funding gap.
Moray is hosting the Scottish 6 days Orienteering Competition during Summer
2023. The mapped areas used for this event are embargoed a year ahead and
have not been available for Moravian Orienteering Club to use. The grant has
enabled us to produce five new maps, allowing us to continue and develop the
club’s activities leading up to the 6 Days. We have organised events in three of
these areas to date, with 70 to 100 competitors at each, with ages ranging from
the very young (6) to older (over 70). More activities are planned for the near
future.
I am really grateful to Berry Burn Community Fund for awarding me with funding to purchase a replacement game refrigerator when mine broke and was beyond repair.
I use the game refrigerator to store game meat provided by local estates which I then prepare, pack and distribute amongst the community free of charge.
The refrigerator is the key piece of equipment that is required to hold meat at food safe temperatures and by replacing it Berry Burn Community Fund has enabled me to continue to provide locally sourced food to members of the community free of charge.
The 4th Findhorn Bay Festival presented a journey of exploration and discovery for Scotland’s Year of Stories, offering glimpses into the past and hopes for the future, and experiences of nature, culture and adventure.
From 23 September to 2 October 2022, the festival provided our communities with an opportunity to share stories, experiences and reconnect and provided the opportunity for our communities to explore a diversity of voices, places, people and cultures from our local stories of past and present with a 10-day programme of arts and cultural events and activities.
Collaborative engagement with a range of community and business partners, funders and sponsors (through both financial and in-kind support) ensured the successful delivery and promotion of the Festival to the widest possible audience, contributing to local regeneration, place-making and community wellbeing.
The Friends of the Falconer Museum have produced an anthology entitled Science & Imagination: True Stories from the Falconer Museum to celebrate 150 years since the museum first opened to the public. The book explores the life and work of Forres-born botanist, geologist, palaeontologist, and polymath Hugh Falconer, alongside imaginative pieces inspired by this visionary scientist. Due consideration is given to the national and international importance of the museum and its collections; the book highlights Falconer’s continuing legacy, both at home and abroad, and connects the local community to its heritage in an informative and engaging manner.
‘Our Leanchoil’ was a nine-month heritage project to collect the memories, photographs and personal stories of Leanchoil Hospital and its special place in our community. We worked with local people of all ages in skills sharing and wellbeing activities and created a unique digital exhibition that preserves and illuminates the history of this special hospital. Berry Burn Community Fund helped us to realise the vision of the project with funds that supported our community engagement and connection.
