The Barbour Memorial Hall is a registered Scottish Charity in the form of a SCIO, responsible for running the Barbour Memorial Hall in Glencaple, Dumfries and Galloway. The organisation has engaged Creetown Initiative to raise funds to repair, develop and upgrade the Barbour Hall. Specific tasks Creetown Initiative will undertake include community consultations and...
Building works are now underway to redevelop Johnston School in Kirkcudbright into a Dark Skies Visitor Centre and Planetarium, a permanent venue for Kirkcudbright Youth Project, a store and workshop for Kirkcudbright Summer Festivities, offices for Kirkcudbright Development Trust, a casual meeting space, a Gin Distillery and Visitor Centre, a Pottery Business and a...
Creetown Initiative owns and manages the Waverley Hall on St John Street, Creetown, which is available to hire for community groups, businesses, private hire (e.g. parties) and organisations. After being permanently closed by the Council in 2013, Creetown Initiative acquired the hall, secured funding to refurbish the building, and reopened the hall in 2016....
Creetown Building Preservation Trust, assisted by Creetown Initiative, is delight to announce that funding has been secured for the full project costs to redevelop the former St Joseph’s Church, known locally as the “Band Hall”, into a Performing Arts Venue. St Joseph’s, a B listed building, was deconsecrated as a church in 1998, and...
The builders are in and the refurbishment of the Waverley Hall is well underway now! Thanks to our successful applications for funding from the Scottish Government’s Town Centre Communities Capital Fund, Trusthouse Foundation, Dumfries and Galloway Council and a few other generous trusts, our community will soon have a brand new facility to use....
A short film has been made at Creetown Initiative about the future redevelopments of the Barholm Arms, with a little help from some of the Creetown Senior Youth Club members. The film charts the future redevelopment plans of the building, which has been made possible thanks to a substantial grant of £730,000 from the...
