The Kintyre Forum

So hoots the scoop with this? Is it going ahead or not?

Seems like this is a no goer. Local councillors didn't pull together on it and it looks like it is shelved. Best bet is to ask your own councillor what the picture for the future is.

It is certainly not being shelved. I haven't spent all these years working on this to give up now. We are continually looking for funds and new ideas to get them. Today we were at the RNLI with a stall (24/6/06) tomorrow is a car boot sale and there are a number of events over the summer with the Duck Race on August 11th (due to a suitable tide).

Sooze

How much to you have to raise and where are you with this?

Just caught this in the courier. Were you supposed to get funding from the Council?

We still have a lot to raise although we can borrow some from the Charity Bank but the more we raise the less we borrow. I would like to get another £150K but every little helps. One problem has been that funders ask why isn't there help from the local council as that seems to give credence to a project.

We have had donations and we raise a lot locally by a variety of means but the longer it takes the higher the costs rise so it is difficult to keep up. Costs have risen £150K since we started.

Sooze

Makes me wonder why we're all paying council tax, looks like it's just for a bin lorry to come round once a week and a recycling truck once a fortnight and that doesn't cost the thousands they get from Southend every month. I realise there are other things the council tax pays for but other areas get community centres built for them, I also know of communities which have received computer systems and free internet, so on the scale of things Southend gets nothing. Sleep well councillors.

There was an interesting letter from one of the Councillors in the Oban Times last week - did you see it?

Yes I did after I had been told by several people. It was a reply to the Tarbert letter from the week before and I have replied to it. We have been asked to meet Councillor MacAskill at Kilmory but it is difficult finding a time for a few of the committee members to go all the way there and he will not come down to Southend.

Sooze

sooze wrote:Yes I did after I had been told by several people. It was a reply to the Tarbert letter from the week before and I have replied to it. We have been asked to meet Councillor MacAskill at Kilmory but it is difficult finding a time for a few of the committee members to go all the way there and he will not come down to Southend.

It's a convenient 'get-out' for the council to be able to say that they invited you to a meeting to discuss it but you declined to go, without mentioning the travel logistics, isn't it?

How about doing it by video conference?