THE SPÒRSNIS facility came one step closer this week with the announcement of £77,000 worth of new funding for the first phase of equiping the centre with the large scale capital items needed for the 10-pin bowling run and for the Sauna.
The funding is made up of £20,000 from the Comhairle’s Capital Grants Scheme for community initiated projects, £17,000 from the European funded Economic Development Programme and £40,000 from Western Isles Enterprise. A small shortfall of £8000 is still to be found for this first phase and fundraising will continue over the coming months.
Carola Bell of the spòrsnis committee told fios, “We are taking it one step at a time and are now looking at the fitting out and equipment required for other areas of the building. This includes the Childcare area and the Learning spaces. There’s also all the smaller equipment like tables and chairs and sports equipment. There’s still a long way to go before the the building is ready for use and the fund raising is finished, but the effort by the community and the support of public funders have been the vital ingredients to get the project this far and everyone is determined that spòrsnis will be an excellent
and well equipped facility.”
Although the project has suffered minor delays due to the recent storms, the committee are confident that the building will be up and running by the end of this year.
