EIGHTY PEOPLE FROM agencies, businesses and community groups gathered at Kinloss yesterday to learn more about the latest LEADER funding programme that will pump £3.5million into local initiatives. Professor Sarah Skerratt from the Scottish Rural College was guest speaker at the launch in the Morayvia Sci-Tech centre, which itself benefited from past LEADER funding rounds … Read more
A TOTAL OF 22 Moray community groups have gained a share of a £40,000 pot through the latest participatory funding exercise operated by tsiMoray. A result of a successful application to the Community Choices Fund, there were 45 applications for small grants of up to £2000 – resulting in 22 coming through the process having … Read more
A DOZEN MORAY COMMUNITY groups who were successful in gaining funding for their projects through the tsiMoray ‘Big Vote’ are being invited to a special event next week. The Big Vote was a participatory funding event through tsiMoray’s Our Communities Drugs and Alcohol Initiative – now the winning groups will further strengthen relationships achieved through … Read more
A SERIES OF events aimed at bringing together Moray’s Over-60s residents is set to continue in Buckie this month. The ‘Vintage Tea’ events are supported by NHS Grampian, Moray Council and tsiMoray and seeks to help promote the health and wellbeing of senior residents. Events were held in Keith, Forres, Elgin and Fochabers last year … Read more
A FLEDGLING MORAY support group are hoping that the participatory funding round organised by tsiMoray this week will provide them with a much needed boost in delivering support for those affected by mental health issues. Based in Lossiemouth, Mind Your Head Moray is a peer support group established last year and holding fortnightly meetings that … Read more
AN OPPORTUNITY TO have a say on which groups and organisation in Moray should receive grants of up to £1500 is being offered this week. The Communities Drugs and Alcohol Initiative operated by tsiMoray launched the first in a cycle of Participatory Budgeting opportunities in September. That has resulted in around 18 local groups and organisations … Read more