Representatives of the groups with Callum Whiteford of RES (in black)
A very pleasant event this evening in Newtonhill Bowling Club when cheques from the Meikle Carewe find farm community funds were handed over to this year’s good causes. The cheques totalled £40,796, and were handed over by Callum Whiteford, the community relations manager of RES, the company which operates the turbines to the west of Netherley.
There were 21 applications this year and the recipients are:
- Drumoak, Durris & Crathes Bowling Club (£1180)
- Newtonhill & District Bowling Club (£5000)
- Newtonhill Community Hall Association (£4433)
- Maryculter Woodlands Trust (£1840)
- 1st Maryculter Scouts (£2988)
- Portlethen Moss Conservation (£4400)
- Portlethen & District Men’s Shed (£5821)
- Stonehaven Tolbooth Association (£4000)
- Stonehaven Horizon Project (£800)
- Stonehaven Amateur Swimming Club (£5083)
- 1st Stonehaven Scout Group (£3930)
- Panthers Basketball Club (£1314).
Newtonhill Bowling Club is using its £5000 cheque towards the £42,000 cost of a new carpet on the green. Work to replace the artificial surface (it is on a concrete base) takes place this March.
Newtonhill Community Hall Association is spending its £4433 on upgrading the small hall in the Bettridge Centre.
The Men’s Shed hopes to open in the spring, having raised £60 to date.
If I have misheard and got any of the figures wrong, please let me know!
The scheme is administered by Kincardineshire Development Partnership on behalf of RES, and the decisions on which group gets what are made by community council representatives in the local area.