The Big Lottery Fund (BLF) has awarded over £10 million towards developing community projects in Scotland.
The Growing Community Assets grants will help pay for new builds, developments and extensions to buildings for community use.
Announcing the funding, BLF Chair Maureen McGinn said: "Thanks to National Lottery players, this £10 million investment will transform the landscape of ten Scottish communities. But, more than that, it puts local people in charge of their futures.
"We know from a decade of Growing Community Assets funding that community ownership can deliver huge social, educational and economic opportunities. Today's successful projects are great examples of this in action and show that local people are best placed to identify what their community needs to develop and thrive."
These are the final grants to be announced as part of the Fund, which has invested £98m into 181 projects over the last 10 years.
The list of successful recipients is as follows:
• Cairndow Community Childcare Limited - £1,050,000; To develop a new-build childcare facility and community resource centre at the brownfield Clachan Sawmill site at the head of Loch Fyne.
• Stranraer Millennium Centre Community Trust - ££1,085,000; To refurbish and extend the current Millennium Centre in Stranraer to create a community hub which will incorporate a café, office space, multi-purpose space for community activities, a dance/fitness studio and recording space.
• New Galloway Community Enterprises Limited - £809,810; To purchase and refurbish the only remaining village shop and attached house.
• The Fraser Centre Community Trust - £1.2m; To build a new multi-functional, arts and cultural centre at the site of the existing Fraser Centre - a historic building in the centre of Tranent in East Lothian.
• The Broomhouse Centre - £1.2m; To acquire, renovate and develop the Broomhouse Centre, an existing community managed facility.
• Tayport Community Trust - £1.2m; To build a new community hub on the site of the derelict Abertay Works, a former steel fabrication plant in Tayport, Fife.
• Govanhill Baths Community Trust - £1m; To create a wellbeing centre for the community of Govanhill by refurbishing the majority of the spaces within the B-listed Edwardian Govanhill Baths building which was closed 15 years ago.
• Southside Housing Association Limited - £1,184,000; To develop a new community hub by replacing the 50 year old temporary classroom building that currently serves as the Nan Mckay Hall in Pollokshields.
• Spire View Housing Association - £1,098,748 - To develop a new flexible multi-functional community facility in Roystonhill which will act as a hub for local activities and services.
• Healthy n Happy Community Development Trust - £749,404; To develop an existing community hub called Number 18 in Rutherglen allowing it to house a community café, a home to Camglen community radio, a multi use events space, flexible use rooms, IT/internet access, retail and community art, music and culture space and local information displays.
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