Creetown Initiative is excited to announce that we WON the Social Enterprise Award at Third Sector Dumfries and Galloway VOscars Awards Ceremony last night, 6th June 2019. Creative, Forward Thinking and Sustainable The Social Enterprise category award celebrates groups that involve and support volunteers and is enterprising by generating income for its community or...
Creetown Initiative is pleased to have secured the contract to carryout a Feasibility Study for “Local Initiatives in New Galloway” (LING). Town Hall The study will look at whether it is feasible for the group to take ownership of the New Galloway Town Hall, which is situated in the heart of New Galloway in...
Creetown Initiative is delighted to have secured the contract to deliver a Community Action Plan for a number of communities across East Dumfriesshire. Dumfriesshire East Community Benefit Group is comprised of 5 local groups in East Dumfriesshire, which came together to form a SCIO (Scottish Charitable Incorporated Organisation) in order to receive and distribute...
Creetown Initiative are delighted to announce that we have now secured the total funds of £2.6m to complete the redevelopment of Johnston School in Kirkcudbright. The £2.6m secured will be used to create a Dark Skies Visitor Centre and Planetarium, there will be a youth work venue for Kirkcudbright Youth Project, a store and...
Creetown Initiative was asked by the Holywood Trust to take over the management of Newton Stewart Youth Club in 2013, after the former Newton Stewart Initiative folded. We ran the youth club in Newton Stewart for 5 years, providing a weekly junior club for young people aged 10 – 12 and a senior club...
Our Wheels2Work scheme was a moped leasing scheme aimed at helping people overcome the initial problem of getting to work or training where no suitable alternative transport existed within Dumfries and Galloway. Our scheme was a whole new way of helping people make the most of opportunities in work, training or education. We had...
In 2007 the Balloch Community Woodland Project decided to commission the creation of an interpretation shelter and meeting point at the Garrochar Wildlife Pond at the edge of the woodland. Galloway artists Alex Rigg and Gordon Donald designed the structure to be built using green oak and traditional techniques in a roundhouse shape. The...
In an exciting remodelling exercise, internationally renowned sculptor Hideo Furuta was commissioned to work with Solway Heritage’s Landscape Architect, Nic Coombey, to develop our Town Square in 2005. Creetown Initiative worked with Hideo and the community to develop a design which reflected the culture and history of the village through the eyes of the...
In 2009 we carried out an arts project combining the woodland and local history and created a stone circle near the Creetown entrance to Balloch Wood. The stones were sourced from the re-development of Maryport Harbour across the Solway Firth in Cumbria, to be recycled into the interpretative circle. Granite was chosen to reflect...
We were successful in securing £60,000 from the Scottish Arts Council to do a year long arts project in the village in 2010. The project had 6 different strands to it, to try and encourage as many people as possible to participate in the arts. By the end over 1000 people were involved and...
In 2008 we raised over £60,000 to restore the old tennis courts to create a MUGA (Multi Use Games Area). This facility is used regularly and has become very popular, especially with local young people....
In December 2009 we secured funds to carry out a two year carbon reduction project. The idea from the government was that the project would help reduce people’s carbon footprint – which can sound very technical and at times boring! What the project actually did was help a lot of people reduce their energy...
