By Kincardineshire Development Partnership
Twenty Local Groups Benefit from Wind Farm Community Fund
Last week, funding worth a total of £41,071.70 was awarded to a range of
local groups and projects in the area of benefit of the Meikle Carewe Wind
Farm Community Fund.
RES, a leading independent renewable energy company, operates the Meikle
Carewe Windfarm Community Benefit Fund to support local groups and
projects. Funding is available for the benefit of not-for-profit groups and
organisations in the Community Council areas of Crathes, Drumoak & Durris,
Newtonhill, Muchalls & Cammachmore, North Kincardine Rural, Portlethen &
District and Stonehaven & District. Administered by Kincardineshire
Development Partnership (KDP), applications to the fund are assessed by a
Decision-Making Panel made up of representatives from all five Community
Council areas. The fund is available annually for the lifetime of the wind farm.
Successful applicants this round were:
Durris Kirkton Hall – £5000; Crathes, Drumoak & Durris Community Council –
£5000; Banchory Academy Greenpower – £1350; Drumoak Durris Crathes
Bowling Club – £1212.18; Muchalls Village Association – £1563; Maryculter
Community Hall Association – £1300; Banchory Devenick Neighbourhood
Watch – £320; Portlethen Moss Conservation Group – £209; The Larder
(Portlethen) – £2500; Tangleha Artists Collective – £3318.64; Portlethen
Bowling Club – £3360; Stonehaven Town Partnership – £993.33; Kincardine
& Mearns Youth Clubs – £1018.87; Friends of Stonehaven Open Air Pool –
£1119.67; Stonehaven Business Association – £1250; Air Training Corps 1297
Stonehaven Squadron – £1340; Maryculter Driving for the Disabled – £2000;
Oakley ASN – £4311.71; Mesolithic Deeside – £2880; Mearns Community
Radio – £1025.30
For more information please visit www.kdp.scot or contact the KDP office on
07903 156864 and margo@kdp.scot