Group teams in Lanarkshire are being urged to submit bids to the UK Authorities’s Group Possession Fund.
MSP for Central Scotland, Graham Simpson, is asking on native teams to get entangled after the UK Authorities opened up the second spherical of the fund which is price £150 million.
The fund can enable group teams to take management of pubs, music venues, sports activities amenities, historic buildings and different amenities for the advantage of the general public, which may in any other case be misplaced endlessly.
The primary spherical of the UK Authorities’s fund noticed six teams in Scotland share greater than £1.2m in funding.
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Now, Mr Simpson has referred to as on group teams to come back collectively to bid for funding to assist assist the buildings that imply probably the most to them in Lanarkshire.
The eligibility standards for the fund has additionally been prolonged which means extra teams in throughout the area can apply.
Graham Simpson MSP mentioned: “It's welcome to see this fund from the UK Authorities open up as soon as once more.
“The primary spherical of funding delivered important funding to assist save a lot liked belongings throughout Scotland and I might encourage group teams in Lanarkshire to bid for it.
“If constituents know of a facility that they don't want to lose from the group, then the UK Authorities’s Group Possession Fund may assist to safeguard it.
“Profitable bids can allow group belongings to thrive as soon as once more in addition to serving to speed up the financial restoration in area.
“The Group Possession Fund is only one instance of how the UK Authorities is straight investing and supporting communities in Lanarkshire.”
The fund has been up to date to widen eligibility standards, together with eradicating the requirement that belongings have had a use throughout the final 5 years and can now contemplate any asset which has had a earlier group use, massively increasing the tasks eligible to use.
Candidates who've a minimal of a 15-year lease on an asset would now even be thought of for funding. Beforehand, leases have been restricted to a minimal of 25 years.
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