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19th December 2006 -
South Kintyre Sports Council launch their mini bus appeal |
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South
Kintyre Sports Council’s efforts to purchase a new mini bus is
speeding up and the voluntary group are now calling on local
businesses interested in a sponsorship deal to help put a
brand new mini bus on the road for the summer of 2007.
Sid Gallagher of the SKSC “We started this project six months
ago and are only now seeing some light at the end of the
tunnel – the whole process is extremely slow in terms of
applying for funding but we finally feel we are getting
somewhere. A grant from Argyll and Bute council has enabled
the Sports Council to employ Logical Solutions to collect
relevant information to complete the application form for the
Big Lottery Fund. The work that has been done, as well as
allowing the completion of the application form, has provided
useful sets of data that will be used in this application and
any other projects carried out by the sports council. We have
submitted an application to Rural Community Transport
Initiative and will hear how we faired this month. In addition
an application to the Big Lottery Fund will shortly be sent.
However, we still need to raise around £15,000, perhaps more
if one of our grant applications fails” |
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The
Sports Council's current mini bus has served the community well but
is now needing replaced. |
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The
local group are looking to put a new bus similar to the one above on
the road in the summer of 2007. |
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SKSC’s Duncan McAulay who has
managed the bus, along with his wife Malina, for the last five
years stated “The existing minibus has been available for hire
to local groups since 1998 but it has served it time and is no
longer cost effective to run. A great variety of local
organisations and institutions have been able to make use of
it. In an isolated area like Kintyre the services of the bus
have been invaluable. It has covered 73,000 miles and been
used for an average of 45 hires per year by many different
organisations." Now South Kintyre Sports Council is looking to
the future and is raising funds to purchase a new bus. The
present bus was obtained by the hard working members of the
Sports Council committee in 1998 when they were successful in
obtaining the bus from “The Foundation for Sports and the
Arts. Since then the bus has been well maintained and provided
useful service. Duncan added “Through out the time that the
bus has been in use it has been financially viable. However,
it is now costing more to keep it on the road and we can see
the time coming when it will cost more to run than we can
afford.”
The Sports Council Secretary, David Paterson, added, “We are
now looking for local businesses to purchase advertising space
on a new bus when we get it. Spaces will be limited and we
feel this is an excellent opportunity to promote your business
whilst supporting sport in the community. As well as
purchasing advertising space on the bus for a minimum of three
years we are offering local press coverage, radio and web
coverage as well as the unique chance for your advert to be
seen all over Scotland. By raising money through this we will
then be able to apply to Sport Scotland for match funding
which could double our income.”
This appealing sponsorship deal includes:
• 3 year sponsorship deal
• 1 of 9 banner adverts on new mini bus.
• All sign work included
• Bus seen throughout Argyll and Scotland
• Local press coverage including final feature in Courier
displayed all sponsors (pd by SKSC)
• Web coverage – on
www.southkintyresportscouncil.com,
www.campbeltown.info &
www.kintyreforum.com
• Radio coverage on Argyll FM
“The cost of replacing the new mini bus with disabled access,
to meet legal requirements, and fit for sports use will be
just under £40,000. This is an enormous amount but we are
convinced we will meet our target by May 2007 through the
grant applications, hard work and local support. To date the
project has been going on steadily in the background while we
concentrated on the grant applications and so far we have
raised just under £4000 with the most recent donation being a
cheque from the Rotary Club of Campbeltown for £2000, which we
cannot thank them enough. We have also received £800 from the
Campbeltown Tartan Army, £300 from the Sports Council and
£136.50 from Sid’s Half Marathon run earlier this year.”
The group also plan to hold a number of fund raising events
over the next 5 months including pub quizzes, bonus balls,
prize bingo and are at the early stages of organising a major
fundraising even. Please check both the Courier and the
Kintyre Forum for more information
The Sports Council was founded in 1985 to assist and promote
sport in South Kintyre and was reformed in March 2006 with a
new committee. The group this year has supported The Mull of
Kintyre Half Marathon, Kintyre Shinty Club and the newly
formed Kintyre Swimming Club as well as liaising with the
Council over matters such as the All Weather Pitch Project,
Hall Charges and Council facilities in general. All members
are also actively supporting their own clubs. There are
currently twenty two member clubs which is believed to be the
highest for a number of years and the group would encourage
anyone interested in joining the Sports Council to do so. For
more information about the Sports Council and the Mini Bus
Appeal project please log-on to our new website at
www.southkintyresportscouncil.com
If interested in sponsorship deal please contact one of the
committee members - Sid Gallagher (552294), David Paterson
(554781), Kerry McKinven (552586), Duncan McAulay (552922)
Helen MacKinlay (553151)
Our website has full details of our Mini Bus Appeal project so
please log-on to our new website at
www.southkintyresportscouncil.com |
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