Dunaverty Village Hall

[hoots the scoop]

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

[Pete Reek]

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.

[sooze]

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

[mrn]

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?

[sooze]

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

[Smiffy]

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.

[Kintyre Forum News]

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

[sooze]

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

[Beachcomber]

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?