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...
Our Ferry Friends project has received some fantastic feedback for project work and services carried out during the Covid-19 pandemic. The world continues to be a strange place but we are getting back to something more normal. The last fifteen months have been difficult for everyone but for those older members of the community,...
Ferry Friends, our community project for over 60s in our parish, has been shortlisted as finalists in the running to receive funding from Dumfries and Galloway Council fund, “Your Community, Your Money, You Decide”. It now all comes down to a community vote to determine the winner of the funding. How to Vote You...
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 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...
Creetown Initiative has been engaged by Beechgrove Sports Partnership to fundraise for a new sports pavilion at the Moffat Beechgrove Sports Pavilion site. There is a larger sports hall behind the pavilion with badminton courts, small gym and an indoor bowling facility. Next to the pavilion there is an outdoor bowling green and outdoor...
Creetown Initiative has successfully secured £180,000 from The Robertson Trust on behalf of Kirkcudbright Development Trust for the redevelopment of Johnston School in Kirkcudbright, taking the current funding total up to £1.44million! Other funders for this community-centred project include The Big Lottery, Heritage Lottery Fund, The Holywood Trust, Dumfries and Galloway Council and Historic...
Creetown Initiative has been engaged to develop a Community Action for Kirkmichael, on behalf of Kirkmichael Community Council. Kirkmichael is a parish 8 miles north of Dumfries with a population of around 683 and the two main population areas are Nethermill and Parkgate. Kirkmichael is entitled to wind farm benefit funds and we are...
Creetown Initiative has been supporting Stranraer Development Trust to set up the Stranraer Resilience Fund. This is an opportunity for local community groups and organisations to apply for funds to alleviate the effects of welfare reform in disadvantaged communities in Stranraer. It is being supported by the Scottish Government via Development Trust Association Scotland....
“I loved that little theatre in Dumfries, for which Robert Burns once wrote prologues. I had the good fortune to frequent it in what was one of its greatest years”, J.M Barrie (1930), The Greenwood Hat. Last night we were invited to the official re-opening night of Dumfries Theatre Royal; a Celebration of the...
TGB Gatehouse is a church based organisation in Gatehouse of Fleet, which provides activity groups, including the arts, for primary aged children. The group now proposes to extend the scope of their activities and promote social justice through volunteering and intergenerational contacts and have engaged the services of Creetown Initiative. We are delighted to...
