The Caithness & North Sutherland fund was established by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority and Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd to distribute funding to community organisations for projects that will increase the attractiveness of Caithness & North Sutherland as a place to live, work and invest with particular emphasis on achieving environment, social, culture and infrastructure improvements.
The funding package was agreed as part of the development of a new disposal facility for low-level waste from decommissioning Dounreay.
The NDA will provide £4M to the fund – £1m at the start of construction in 2011 and £300,000 in 2014 and each year until 2023.
PRESS RELEASE CNSF2018PR031 (24/09/2018) THE CNSFUND AWARDS OVER £50K TO COMMUNITY PROJECTS! The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund has recently committed over £50k to six community projects in its latest round of grant awards. Jim MacGregor, CNSFund Chair said, ‘’Our latest funding investment supports improvements to historic and cultural visitor points of interest, village festivities, […]
PRESS RELEASE CNSF2018PR030 (29/06/2018) THE CNSFUND AWARDS OVER £100K TO COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS! The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund has committed over £100k to seven community projects in its latest round of grant awards. Jim MacGregor, CNSFund Chair said, ‘We are pleased the Fund continues to attract a good level of funding applications from groups […]
PRESS RELEASE CNSF2018PR029 (13/03/2018) COMMUNITY GROUPS REWARDED TO DELIVER IMPROVEMENT PROJECTS! Community groups across Caithness and north Sutherland have gained more than £178,000 from a local fund’s recent awards. The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund, which is provided by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), has held two funding rounds since October and awarded money to […]
The CNSFund office will be closed for the festive period from Friday 22nd December – Monday 8th of January.