Brilliant news! Big Lottery Fund awards Duncan Place £425k!!!
Duncan Place has been awarded just over £425 000 from the Big Lottery Community Assets Fund. Nicola Lamberton aided by the volunteer and Trustees of Duncan Place SCIO have been working hard to raise funds to secure the future of Duncan Place. We are proud to announce that we have been awarded this grant to enable the re-opening and initial set-up and running costs, as well as fittings, fixtures, equipment to ensure a successful community space for the future Full Press Release from Big Lottery Fund, is below.
The exciting stuff starts now - Work begins on the building in September. It's all getting real!
Huge Big Thanks to everyone who has engaged with us, helped us, advised us. Enormous Thank you to the Big Lottery Fund!
And to the Leith Community - You are Awesome.
Plans to build and refurbish three new community hubs for local people in Edinburgh, Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire have today been bolstered by a £2.2 million National Lottery cash boost.
The three projects, funded through the Big Lottery Fund's Community Assets programme, are part of a wider package of grants, totalling £5 million, to 21 groups across the country.
Plans to redevelop and return ownership of a popular community hub in Leith to local people have received a welcome cash boost of £425,270. Duncan Place SCIO will use the funding to help complete the fit out and support start-up costs of the redeveloped Duncan Place building.
Nicola Lamberton, fundraiser for Duncan Place SCIO, said: "We are delighted with this award, which is the last piece of our funding jigsaw and means that it will now be possible to re-open a revitalised and renewed community resource in Leith, with a target of late 2019.
"Under community ownership and management, the new Duncan Place hub will provide an accessible, unique, and thriving community space focused on health and well-being, hosting a fantastic range of inclusive activities and events. It will also make business and studio space available to social enterprises; local artists and charitable organisations. This mix reflects the feedback we got from extensive community consultation, the needs of our diverse locality and our determination to ensure this will be a sustainable community hub, here to support future generations of Leithers."