Lochaber Cinema Group has now been dissolved

Lochaber Cinema Group has now completed the wind-up process to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and has been dissolved. This process took a few months to complete from our motion to end in January this year. We transferred our assets of a screen and projector to an arts and drama group called Dramafish in Kinlochleven.

We would again like to extend thanks to the community who interacted with us on Facebook and at screenings and events we held and also supported our vision of a community-run cinema.

It is very difficult for any community-run project seeking funding and in the end justifying our project to different funders was difficult, time-consuming and full of red tape.

We would like to see more support and funding in the Highlands towards arts and drama groups. We knew a cinema would be a good addition to the town and all the benefits it brings, not only to a community but to businesses surrounding it.

Also I would like to thank people locally that advised us: Don Michie, Arthur Cowie and the Lochaber Disability Access Panel, Stephen Fair of Fair Planning and Design, Paul Taylor of Eden Court Cinema and Voluntary Action Lochaber, Stephen Kennedy of McIntyre and Company Solicitors, Callum Macraild at Logo Positive. Thanks also to former LCG members and trustees and board members: you made a vision possible and allowed us to grow.

Thank you to the groups we have worked with to bring screenings to the community: Lochaber Foodbank, Lochaber Environmental Group, Greenpeace Fort William, the Wildcat, Caol Youth Centre, Kilmallie Hall, Caol Community Centre, Duncansburgh Church, the Leven Centre, Kinlochleven, Nevis Radio, the Lochaber Times and Fort Con.

A special thank you to all the schools we have screened in: Caol Primary, St Columba’s, Bun-sgoil Ghàidhlig Loch Abar, Lundavra Primary, Kinlochleven Primary and Mallaig Primary. Also helpers in Kinlochleven, Gayle and IIona.

We would also like to extend good luck to the cinema project happening in Cameron Square.

Marie Macpherson,

Former LCG chairwoman, Glenlochy Distillery, Fort William.