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COMMUNITY GROUPS BOOSTED BY GOLF CLUB GRANTS

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ROYAL DORNOCH Golf Club has teed-up grants totalling nearly £10,000 to support a range of good causes in the Highland town and the surrounding area.

Representatives from many of the beneficiaries attended an event at the clubhouse to mark the 2024 pay-outs from the Community Fund.

Past captain Willie Mackay (pictured centre) said the Council of Management had been impressed with the range and quality of applications which had flooded in.

The grant support from the golf club comes on top of an annual contribution of up to £50,000 to the Dornoch Common Good Fund as the rental based on the number of visiting golfers, which was agreed when a new long-term lease on the famous links was penned with Highland Council.

Mr MacKay said: “As a golf club with deep roots in the local community it is a pleasure to support a wide variety of good causes.

“It was a challenge deciding which groups to support given the volume of entries we received. It underlines how active the community is in this part of the Highlands.”

Donations ranging from £250 to £500 are being made to a broad spectrum of organisations.

These include the Gift Project operated by Caithness and Sutherland Women’s Aid,  Dornoch Library Friday Arts, Dornoch Flowers and Fayres, Dornoch Friday Arts and Crafts Club, Dornoch Cricket Club, We’re in Stitches (sewing machines and crafts)’ The Meadows Care Home, St Finnbarr’s Charity Shop, Dornoch Beach Wheelchairs, Dornoch and District Community Association, Dornoch Otago Group (exercise classes for older people), Sutherland Junior Squash, Dornoch Pipe Band, Dornoch Cathedral 800 Year Committee, Dornoch Campus ASN department (for specialist care for school pupils), Dornoch Festival Week, Dornoch Academy (library books), Dornoch Primary Parents Council, Dornoch Community Centre social club, Dornoch Firth Youth Band, East Sutherland Rescue Association, Dornoch Fire Services (children’s parties) and Dornoch Cinema.