www.alythvoice.co.uk 235th Edition, June 2018 1750 copies Alyth Youth Partnership awarded £7,500 funding Local charity Alyth Youth Partnership was handed a financial boost after becoming the latest good cause group to be awarded funding of £7,500 through Scotmid Co-operative’s Community Connect initiative. Alyth Youth Partnership earned the second most member votes behind Inverness charity Highland Cycle Ability Centre in Scotmid’s North Region, encompassing Inverness, Dundee, Aberdeen and Perth, at the Annual General Meeting in Dundee last night (Tuesday 1 May). Following in-store voting and an exciting ballot at the company’s AGM, Highland Cycle Ability Centre was recognised with the top award while Alyth Youth Partnership won £7,500 and Dundee’s Positive Steps received £2,500. Alyth Youth Partnership provide clubs and activities for local young people aged 9-25 in Alyth and the surrounding areas. The charity’s aim is to promote social inclusion, address anti-social behaviour and encourage young people to take pride in their local community. Funding from the £7,500 Community Connect award will now be used fund an arts project which will help young people to identify ‘What Makes Alyth’ through the use of music, photography, spoken word, dance and art. AYP manager George Annan said: “We’re absolutely delighted to be awarded £7,500 funding from Scotmid’s Community Connect initiative – it provides us with a great opportunity to engage with even more young people in our local area through exciting projects. “We want young people to take pride in Alyth and we will use the funding to showcase local talent that will leave a lasting impression through a growing arts festival. “One of the pieces of art we want to create is a bronze statue that will forever be in Alyth – standing the test of time and showing the positive contribution that Alyth Youth Partnership can make. “This funding gives us the freedom to be really creative for the next year and we’re extremely thankful to all the Scotmid members, who voted for us.” Scotmid Co-operative Chief Executive John Brodie said: “Congratulations to Alyth Youth Partnership, who have been awarded £7,500 funding through our Community Connect initiative, which is funded from the sale of single-use carrier bags. “The outcome was decided by the votes cast by our members and it is great to be able to award all the short-listed groups with funding to enable them to continue the good work that they do. “Our core purpose is to serve our communities and improve people’s everyday lives, so it is very pleasing to see Community Connect continue to develop into an extremely worthwhile initiative for our members and local good cause groups – bringing people together and bringing worthwhile projects to life.” In addition to Community Connect, Scotmid Co-operative’s Community Grant programme continues to grow in importance and popularity – last year over 1,000 local community groups applied and were awarded a grant of up to £500 and these projects range from Primary Schools’ breakfast clubs to communal garden renovations. Image: (left to right): Scotmid Co-operative President Harry Cairney, Alyth Youth Partnership manager George Annan and Scotmid Co-operative Chief Executive John Brodie pictured at the Scotmid North AGM in Dundee. The Alyth Voice is a free monthly newsletter, managed, written, and delivered by volunteers. EDITOR’S LETTER Welcome to the June issue of the Alyth Voice! It’s been another busy month for Alyth since our last issue. By the time you read this we will have enjoyed the Alyth Creates Festival - bigger and better even than last year’s fantastic showcase of local talent and creativity. With more events, exhibitions, live performances than ever before, Alyth Creates 2018 is a truly remarkable achievement for a small town like Alyth, and full marks to all the organisers, participants and of course the local community for turning out to support it. Our production schedule means we aren’t able to carry a report on Alyth Creates in this issue, but we hope to feature a full report next month. Alyth Creates builds on our community’s strengths in terms of heritage and history, but also embodies our ability to renew those strengths and adapt to changing times. Indeed, that’s something of a theme in this month’s issue of The Voice. In this issue, for example, we feature G A Davidson, one of our oldest established family businesses who are about to celebrate an amazing 65 years in business achieved through adapting to changing circumstances while maintaining core values of craftsmanship and quality. Look out also for reports from Alyth in Bloom about the wonderful new drystane feature they have created at the town entrance - an example of how heritage and renewal can make a real difference. Well done to Ron McGill for designing and building the feature and to all involved in Alyth in Bloom for making it happen - they are doing some really great work in bringing colour and liveliness into the town and we wish them well for their future plans. Their biggest new project, of course, is the proposed replanting of the burn-side between the Market Square and the Pack Bridge, work on which is hoped to begin later this year. This project is closely linked to the plans for a complete renewal of the Market Square itself, on which Alyth Development Trust, Alyth in Bloom and the newly-revived Community Council are collaborating in partnership with Perth & Kinross Council. Alyth Development Trust have put in a tremendous amount of work over the past four years to bring this project to fruition, and it’s fantastic to see Alyth in Bloom and the Community Council rolling up their sleeves and joining with ADT to make it the best it possibly can be. Following Perth & Kinross Council’s successful public consultation on the latest Market Square plans in May, the three local bodies are hopeful that the works will start within months and, fingers crossed, be finished by Christmas. By then, I hope everyone will agree that the temporary disruption will have been more than worth it and we will have a heart of the town that we can be really proud of. Elsewhere, we are eagerly awaiting the planning application for detailed permission to start the first phase of building on the former Glenisla Golf Course. This has sparked some controversy in the town because of the scale and location of what’s being proposed. We understand that Glenisla Developments were planning to lodge their application around the end of May, but at the time of writing that had not yet happened. We await developments with interest. Finally, I want to say a big thank you to all the volunteers who help to produce and distribute The Voice each month, and to all our supporters in the town, and especially this month the wonderful ladies of Kilry SWRI for their generous donation towards our funds. It’s people like you who make all our efforts worthwhile! Kevin Coe Editor 2 USEFUL TELEPHONE NUMBERS *~*~* DATES FOR YOUR DIARY *~*~* Airlie Street Hall (contact-Shona Milne) 01828 633219 Due to the advance notice of these dates, please check for changes! 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