Royal Dornoch Golf Club awards grants totalling £10k to good causes in area

ROYAL DORNOCH Golf Club has teed-up grants totalling almost £10,000 to support a range of good causes in the town and the surrounding area.

Representatives from many of the beneficiaries attended an event at the clubhouse to mark the distribution of the 2024 Community Fund.

Past captain Willie Mackay said the Council of Management had been impressed with the range and quality of applications that had been received.

The golf club’s grant support is in addition to an annual contribution of up to £50,000 to the Dornoch Common Good Fund as a rent based on the number of visiting golfers, which was agreed when a new long-term lease on the famous links was signed with Highland Council.

Mr MacKay said: “As a golf club with deep roots in the local community, it is a pleasure to support a wide range of good causes.

“It was a challenge to decide which groups to support given the volume of entries we received. It just goes to show how active the community is in this part of the Highlands.”

Donations ranging from £250 to £500 are being made to a broad spectrum of organisations.

These include the Caithness and Sutherland Women’s Aid Gift Project, Dornoch Library Friday Arts, Dornoch Flowers and Fayres, Dornoch Friday Arts and Crafts Club, Dornoch Cricket Club, We’re in Stitches (sewing machines and crafts)’ The Meadows Care Home, St Finnbarr’s Charity Shop, Dornoch Beach Wheelchairs, Dornoch and District Community Association, Dornoch Otago Group (exercise classes for older people), Sutherland Junior Squash, Dornoch Pipe Band, Dornoch Cathedral 800 Year Committee, Dornoch Campus ASN department (for specialist care for school pupils), Dornoch Festival Week, Dornoch Academy (library books), Dornoch Primary Parents Council, Dornoch Community Centre social club, Dornoch Firth Youth Band, East Sutherland Rescue Association, Dornoch Fire Services (children’s parties) and Dornoch Cinema.

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