Civic leader urges public to attend Your Cash Your Caithness
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CAITHNESS civic leader Willie Mackay is urging members of the public to go along to Saturday's Your Cash Your Caithness event and have their say on which community groups get the money they are requesting.
Representatives of 25 local organisations will pitch their projects before a public audience in Thurso High School in a bid to secure enough votes to give them a share of a £10,000 pot of cash.
Councillor Mackay, who represents Wick and East Caithness on Highland Council, and who will be compering the event, said: "I am very impressed by the variety of applications coming from all around the county and I would encourage anyone interested in the participatory budgeting process to come along to give their support and make their votes count.
"Each group will have three minutes to pitch for funding, with a further two minutes to answer questions from the audience."
Voting is open to anyone aged 14 and over. The event starts at 10am in the school's main hall.
Registration will be open from 9.30am and the presentations are expected to continue until around 1.30pm.
This will be the sixth Your Cash Your Caithness event held in the county, the first having been held in November 2015.
The groups taking part this time are Home-Start Caithness; North Highland Cancer Information and Support Centre; Friends of Newtonhill Woodland; Caithness Macular Degeneration Support Group; Society of Caithness Artists; Caithness Street Pastors; No Limits Caithness; Thurso Community Development Trust; Budding Engineers (CIC); The Northern Pilgrims’ Way Group; Northern Stars THS 2020; Thurso, Come Dancing; Thurso Community Café; Caithness Community Connections; Wick Players; Bower Busy Bees Early Learning Centre; Abilitynet; Rumster Outdoor Centre Management Group; Caithness branch of the Pony Club; Advocacy Highland; John O’Groats Mill Trust; Reiss and Killimster Park Committee; Caithness and Sutherland Vintage and Classic Vehicle Club; Connecting Carers; Caithness Broch Project.
