What is the Caithness & North Sutherland Fund?
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.

Latest News/Awards
17/12/21 - PR Grant Awards 2021-R4
PRESS RELEASE CNSF2021PR041 (17/12/2021) CNSFUND AWARDS FIVE NEW GRANTS The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund has committed over £58k to five community projects in a recent round of grant awards. The Seafarers Memorial Group has been granted £20,710 towards the costs of commissioning the design and construction of a seafarers memorial that will be sited […]
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17/11/21 - CNSFund 2021 AGM Report
The CNSFund 2021 AGM Report can be downloaded from the following link: – CNSF(2021)AGM010-P001 Chairperson’s Report It gives me great pleasure to present my report for 2021, which is the 10th year of the Fund’s operation. Since our last AGM report, the Fund has continued as usual and held four assessment meetings. We assessed fourteen […]
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11/11/21 - CNSF 2022 Application Schedule
The Caithness & North Sutherland Fund considers funding applications on a quarterly basis. Please ensure that you submit your initial enquiry form well in advance of the closing dates to allow yourself sufficient time to complete your full application form, which we will provide you with after we receive your initial enquiry form and have […]
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10/11/21 - CNSFund 2021 AGM Notice
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