Scottish Arts awards communities

The Scottish Arts Council (SAC) has announced its final awards for Inspiring Communities who connect people through the arts.

Funded by the National Lottery, the scheme is sharing out nearly £800,000 between communities who offer wider and more diverse participation in the arts through the undertaking of ambitious projects.

A total of seven community projects have been given funds as part of the awards, including the Invergordon Off the Wall scheme in the Highlands and the Tenants First Housing Co-operative in Aberdeenshire.

Iain Munro, co-director of arts at SAC congratulated the successful projects and added: 'Introducing communities new to the arts to meaningful creative experiences has been a central theme of Inspiring Communities, as today's announcement confirms.

'Each of the successful projects offers something unique to each community, genuinely rooted in their experience and history and we believe only the start of a lifelong legacy of creative expression and participation.'