Wild things! are incredibly grateful for the support of the Berry Burn Community Fund. Their contribution to our new 4WD vehicle enables us to work in remote, rural areas with reliability and safety. This is essential to our continuing work in taking children, young people and vulnerable adults on exciting and educational outdoors activities as well as supporting us to deliver conservation work in Moray.
Funding from Berry Burn Community Fund has enabled us to purchase a new lawnmower for the pitch and surrounding park area. Maintaining the standard of the pitch is important for our Club playing at highland League level.
Funds from Berry Burn Community Fund to purchase additional roof and wall transparent panels for use with the Forres Highland Games Dancing Platform/Stage Marquee has greatly enhanced its flexibility and safety. Transparent panels greatly enhance both the viewing spectacle for the public and the protection and illumination of the participants. The flexibility to use either transparent or white canvas roofing to shade the participants is a great asset. The option to use side and/or back transparent panels to provide protection from driving wind and rain during performances helps the dancers and contributes to their H & S by keeping the stage dry. It also increases its potential for use by other community groups or activities in the local area during the foreseeable future.
This grant has enabled the Moravian Orienteering Club to replace obsolete and failing key timing equipment which was essential to the Clubs future. The equipment was rolled out at the Scottish Relay Championships 2018, where nearly 600 participants benefitted from the new technology. The equipment was a resounding success, for participants and the Clubs Planners and Organisers. The equipment will provide the Club with an assured future to continue providing large and small scale events in the Moray area, encouraging many more generations of participants, of all ages, to enjoy a healthy lifestyle and an affinity with their local environment.
Forres Golf Course, a community owned facility as part of Forres Common Good, is managed and operated entirely by the golfers. In times when member numbers are decreasing it has become increasingly difficult to find the funding for essential preventative maintenance work. The grant from BBCF contributed 50% towards the cost of the shed refurbishment. The shed is over 50 years old and without this work being carried out it was under threat of losing its structural integrity. The re-painting work, apart from greatly improving the appearance of the building will extend its life for an indefinite period.
We received match funding from the Berry Burn Community Fund for a custom built pirate ship to provide more outdoor challenges for the children. It is now being enjoyed by the 40 children that we have registered this year. We expect the ship to last for at least 20 years and will be a huge benefit to all the children that attend in that time. The children are really enjoying the different challenges that the ship provides and it has led to the children choosing to be outside even more than before.
Berry Burn Community Funding has enabled Earth for Life to begin rolling out our new ‘Paths
Through the Forest’ ecotherapy recovery model in Moray. This has offered people struggling
with mental ill health a series of progression pathways to develop their confidence and
creativity and sustain their wellbeing longer term, and has provided opportunities for learning
new skills, meeting like-minded friends, accessing local woodlands, gaining qualifications and
improving employability. All this helps our communities become healthier and wealthier. Earth
for Life is very grateful for such support, and would like to thank Berry Burn on behalf of
our programme participants!
With the help of the Berry Burn Wind Farm Fund, Rothes Community Ltd, a Scottish Charitable Group, was able to enhance its visitor centre as well as making it weatherproof. We now have a pleasant area for our volunteers to have a welcome break. Our visitors are also enjoying the changes with no leaking gutters to cause problems.
We very much appreciate the financial help from the windfarm fund group and their staff who were there for us throughout.
Our aim was to create an attractive festive lights display for Forres town centre to be enjoyed by all during the Christmas 2017 period. We are grateful to the Berry Burn Community Fund for helping with the costs of installation and maintenance.
The grant from the Berry Burn Fund met the significant cost of hiring the Town Hall as our practice venue for 3 years. Without this financial support, the band may well have imploded and certainly the hugely successful Moray Youth Pipes and Drums Tuition Scheme would never have been conceived. The award allowed us to drive forward the tuition Scheme, develop the main band and to set up a Youth Band in a venue well suited for the purpose. It was beyond the fund raising capacity of the band to generate the Town Hall hire fees and we are all of us deeply indebted to Berry Burn for their support.
