Spòrsnis Ltd

FUND RAISING for the spòrsnis community facility at Lionel School is continuing and the committee will shortly be exploring a number of options relating to the furnishing and equipping of the centre.

Following legal and financial advice, the committee has agreed that the existing voluntary organisation should be wound up and replaced by a company limited by guarantee. This offers a better structure for the organisation and ensures that members’ interests are protected.

The new company will have the same name as the existing voluntary body – Ness Sports and Recreation Association.

£10,000 spòrsnis donation

ANGUS JOHN GILLIES, who is well known to fios readers for his occasional letters from Canada, has remembered the community he was brought up in in a very tangible form with a donation of £10,000 to the spòrsnis project. His cheque was received on Saturday by spòrsnis treasurer Christina Maclean.

Angus John - a close friend of Christina’s late father Ruairidh Bàn Morrison - has agreed to his donation being acknowledged publicly in the “hope that it might encourage others to contribute.” fios readers may recall an earlier, £10,000 private donation to spòrsnis which it has now revealed was also from Angus John - making an incredible total donation of £20,000 towards the new community facility being built at Lionel.

Calum Iain Macleod, sporsnis chairman said,
"This is absolutely wonderful news. The whole community will, I am sure, join all of us involved in the spòrsnis project, in warmly thanking AngusJohn for his truly generous contributions".