Arran in £100,000 competition for island arts

Creative Scotland offers a prize of a block grant to a community that can put forward a good case for its arts activities. The sum offered is related to the size of the community, and Arran comes into the category that could win £100,000. Our Theatre and Arts Trust, which already runs the McLellan Festival and much else, is co-ordinating the bid, but anyone with ideas to offer is urged to get in touch – quickly, as Arran’s bid has to be in by the 19th of this month.

Established organisations such as Arran Visual Arts and the Music Society are already listed, together with details of what they could do if given some additional funding, but the people working on it are anxious to contact anyone in what can loosely be called the arts business. Artists, musicians, craftspeople, dancers, providers of open space for creative purposes, embroiderers, patchworkers, jewellers, runners of Internet businesses with a creative content, – all are welcome to apply. Just drop an e-mail to Jan McGregor on kmacgregor@12smiddy.fsnet.co.uk or phone her on 700249. But hurry – there’s not much time.