Community sports hub secures £400k support
The Inverness Caledonian Thistle Community Development is leading the £1.28m project, which will create five jobs and around 50 volunteering opportunities.
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Funded by HIE and the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), XpoNorth is free to attend.
There will be live performances from Annie Booth, Beta Waves, Tamzene, Zoe Graham and many more. Each act is in with a chance to play at the XpoNorth Seedlings stage at Belladrum Tartan Heart festival in August.
XpoNorth will also include thought-provoking and high-impact sessions exploring multidisciplinary themes in today’s creative climate.
Speakers include Jen Topping (Media Commissioner & Consultant, Channel D/Xbox), Aton Ben-Horin, (Global Vice President of A&R, Warner Music Group) plus Sara Kozak (Senior Vice President, Production, Investigation Discovery and AHC at Discovery Inc).
HIE’s head of creative industries, Iain Hamilton, said:
“XpoNorth is one of the most exciting and inspiring events of its kind. It is an excellent platform to showcase great new acts from all genres and from far and near, and to stimulate industry networking through seminar sessions with industry leaders.
“We are thrilled with the quality and diversity of this year’s line-up and are delighted to be presenting such a fantastic range of talent and expertise.”
The Inverness Caledonian Thistle Community Development is leading the £1.28m project, which will create five jobs and around 50 volunteering opportunities.
HIE’s application is for permission to establish infrastructure, such as roads and utilities, to create serviced plots for sale to developers.
Grantown’s artistic community will open the doors to their studios and workshops to the public next month, giving an insight into their creative work.
A £1.6m project to boost the Easter Ross economy through net zero initiatives, community learning and development has been awarded up to £450,000 from HIE.
The move will help facilitate the company’s further growth. Its corporate and compliance team of ten will relocate to Aurora House, with the company’s operational base remaining in Beauly.
The additional funding brings HIE’s total investment in the project to £2.863m.
The funicular railway at Cairngorm Mountain resort is set to return to service on Thursday 27 February.