Loch Lomond

LOCH Lomond and The Trossachs National Park Authority is inviting organisations to apply for a share of £80,000.

Its new National Park Grant Scheme is available for projects that help enhance the National Park as a place to live, work and visit.

As 2018 is Scotland’s Year of Young People, £10,000 of the fund has been ring-fenced for projects that deliver benefits for or work in partnership with young people aged between eight and 26 years.

Stuart Mearns, director of planning and rural development at Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National Park, said: ‘The grant scheme allows us to provide vital funding to help make a wide range of projects and initiatives across the park happen or take a step towards delivering a larger project.

‘To celebrate The Year of Young People, we are especially keen to hear about projects which create new opportunities for young people and provide opportunities for them to express themselves and to experience the National Park.

‘By supporting project ideas that will help deliver on our recently launched National Park Partnership Plan, as well as community priorities identified in local community action plans, we are looking forward to helping a diverse range of ambitious project ideas that will make the National Park an even better place to live, work and visit.’

The National Park Grant Scheme is open to a range of organisations including voluntary or community groups, schools and public funded bodies.

Any groups interested should apply by midnight on Sunday June 3 at http://lochlomond-trossachs.org/ grantscheme