Education Trust Funds Applications are now open to the value of approximately seven million pounds including grants, university and college bursaries, scholarships and funds for schools and sports.
Applications can be submitted until 28th February with awards agreed and granted in March this year.
The funds are held by the Council on behalf of bequests for educational benefit within various Highland communities, and the recent efforts to streamline the application process should ensure that children, young people and adult learners benefit from the intentions and bequests of the scheme founders some of which go back to the nineteenth century.
Ccommunity representatives, teaching staff and sports clubs are encouraged to spread the word about the Education Trust Fund Scheme to help raise awareness of the support available with further details via the Highland Council website.
The Highland Council’s statutory consultation on making permanent the twenty miles per hour speed limit in over one hundred places across Highland continues.
The scheme was introduced in July 2023 by a temporary Traffic Regulation Order which has now been extended until July this year. The Highland Council wants to make the scheme permanent and is required to undertake a 5-week consultation before doing so.
Any comments or objections to the proposals must be made in writing and must specify the grounds of objection on or before 10th February following which a report will be presented to a meeting of the Economy and Infrastructure Committee in May. Full details are on the Highland Council website.
Meantime it is confirmed that all costs of the roll out of the scheme are fully funded by Transport Scotland.
Inverness Caley Thistle plays its game in hand over the team immediately above it tonight when it makes the long journey to Dumfries to play Queen of the South.
A win for Caley Thistle would take it to just one point behind the third bottom club, Annan Athletic.
Kick off is at 7.45.
