|
Great news! The refurbishment happened. |
During March 2010 confirmation was
received that the Scottish Rural Development Programme (SRDP) would fund 50% of
the £149,000 hall refurbishment cost. That meant that matched funding
was available from Viridor Landfill Credits (£30,000), Scottish Borders
Landfill Trust (£13,000), the Roberston Trust
(£10,000), Awards for All (£10,000),the Gannochy Tust (£5000), Hugh
Fraser Foundation (£7,000), Scottish Borders Council Community
Grants Scheme (£5,000), the Bernard Sunley Charitable Trust (£2,000),
the Erskine, Cunningham Hill Trust (£1,000).
Work on the hall began in July and the
first booking in the refurbished hall was on 8th February 2011.
Cinema Equipment
Earlier in the year £4,000 was secured
from Regional Screen Scotland to fund setting up cinema equipment in the
hall. It had been hoped that this might be in place before the
refurbishment, but with the short time scale it was decided to wait
until after. Film are now shown on a regular basis. Click
here to see what's coming up.
Refurbishment News
Here are photos taken on 5th December
2010 as work progressed..

The main hall

The new kitchen
Return
to ACHA main page
|