Dorenell Community Fund celebrates another successful funding round

The Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund supports community-led, charitable activities that benefit residents living in the fund area.

Awards can support both revenue and capital costs and a wide range of activities, including equipment costs, staff or sessional worker costs, consultations and feasibility studies, maintenance, or refurbishment of community facilities and so on.

Awards were made to the following groups:

• Cabrach Trust - £27,000 to fund landscaping, licensing and internal fit-out to create a quality holiday cottage to promote community-led tourism and provide support for community projects.
• Tomintoul & Glenlivet Development Trust - £7,000 towards the cost of constructing a Dark Skies viewing tower to develop sustainable local tourism.
• Moray Rape Crisis - £10,325 to fund outreach support to improve safety, coping, and well-being for survivors of sexual violence in Dufftown and surrounding communities.
• Snowsport Scotland - £15,631 to fund ski sport coaching to local primary schools for three years, promoting physical and mental wellbeing and creating pathways for sustained participation in cross-country skiing.

Groups can apply for funding of up to £30,000 for projects and activities that will benefit local residents in Dufftown, Auchindoun, Glenrinnes, Glenlivet, Inveravon, and the Cabrach.

The Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund is provided by EDF power solutions UK, the majority owner of Dorenell Wind Farm Limited. Dorenell also provides funding for microgrant schemes, which are run by each of the community associations involved in setting up and running the Fund.

These microgrants allow smaller groups to apply for up to £1,000 for events, activities, equipment, and projects.

More information is available from local community associations, and full details on the Dorenell Wind Farm Community Fund are available here

Read more about the EDF power solutions UK Dorenell Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund