Edinbane Community Company, on Skye, has secured a £25,00 grant from Crown Estate Scotland’s Sustainable Communities Fund.
The money will help reopen Edinbane’s vacant village shop and petrol station, which has been vacant for nearly 20 years, and transform the site into a community-run facility, with a range of services including food shop and toilets.
Development worker, Andrew Prendegast, said: “The community of Edinbane is excited at the prospect of once again having basic local amenities in our village – somewhere to buy food, groceries, and access vital post office services.
“We acquired the old village shop site in 2020, and this award from Crown Estate Scotland will enable us to develop our plans for a new community-owned enterprise. These key local services will underpin Edinbane’s regeneration.”
Annie Breaden, Head of Policy for Crown Estate Scotland, added: “Communities are driving ambitious, creative, and innovative projects across Scotland. We were extremely impressed by the range and quality of applications and Crown Estate Scotland is delighted to be supporting such important and positive projects.
“These initiatives have the potential to make an enormous impact on these communities and the people who live in them, and we are looking forward to seeing how they progress.”
Crown Estate Scotland’s £970,000 Sustainable Communities Fund, launched in 2020, has distributed funds to a wide range of innovative projects across the country. Applications for the next round of the Sustainable Communities Fund will open in summer 2022.
