Good causes benefit from Tunes By the Dunes festival donations

TEN good causes have benefited from £2500 raised at a Caithness music festival which was held for the first time in 2019.

Tunes By the Dunes, staged at Dunnet over a weekend in September, was hailed as a resounding success with a huge crowd enjoying performances from Skerryvore, Tide Lines, Whisky, Blue Ridge and Trail West.

Members of the organising body, North Coast Entertainments, have now presented cheques for £250 each to the chosen 10 causes from the proceeds of the festival. They are Thurso lifeboat, Caithness Palliative Care, Befriending Caithness, Marie Curie, Chest Heart and Stroke Scotland, Thurso United, East End, Britannia Hall, Dunnet Christmas Lights and Caithness Ladies FC.

The idea of hosting a musical festival took shape after two local football clubs, Thurso and Pentland United, formed a committee to raise funds.

The football pitch at Dunnet was filled with a huge marquee that comfortably accommodated the thousand-plus crowd.

The organisers said at the time that the festival could not have happened without the support of local people, businesses and contractors.

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