Oban Communities Trust Wins Rural Innovators Award
- Submitted by: Michael Russell, Argyll and Bute, Scottish National Party.
- Date lodged: Monday, 14 September 2015
- Motion reference: S4M-14241
That the Parliament congratulates the Oban Communities Trust on winning the Scottish Rural Parliament Rural Innovators 2015-16 Award for "Land", which recognises the work that has been done to save the old Rockfield school in Oban and the plans that the trust has to convert it into the Rockfield Centre to provide what it considers a much-needed hub for the town to celebrate art, culture, history and heritage and embrace education, enterprise and community wellbeing, and wishes the trust and the town of Oban every success in taking forward what it sees as this imaginative project.
Supported by:
Clare Adamson, Jackie Baillie, Colin Beattie, Graeme Dey, John Finnie, Rob Gibson, Adam Ingram, Bill Kidd, Richard Lyle, Angus MacDonald, Mike MacKenzie, Joan McAlpine, Mark McDonald, Jamie McGrigor, Anne McTaggart, Gil Paterson, Kevin Stewart, David Torrance, Sandra White