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COLL AND MULL HEALTHY LIVING PROJECTS BOOSTED BY £90,000 People living on Mull and Coll will benefit from communityled wellness initiatives designed to support them to live healthier lifestyles. The Healthy Islands Fund will help to deliver these initiatives with just over £1.3 million of Scottish Government funding from the wider £30 million Islands Programme. On the Isle of Coll, the Project Trust is to receive £30,000 for its ‘BicyCOLL’ green travel policy. On Mull, Pennyghael Community Hall receives £44,680.80 for phase one of its renovations, while Mull and Iona Community Trust has been awarded £9,800 for its Our Islands’ Community Wellbeing Project and Tobermory Harbour
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participation and equality in Association has been physical activity, as we’ve given £4,052 for the Aros outlined in our National Waterfront Development. Islands Plan. We need to The fund is managed by ensure these are locally-led Inspiring Scotland, with 56 and community groups are projects spanning across 35 often best placed to provide islands. Projects focus on these services building local on our islands. capacity to ‘The projects increase wellThe projects we we are funding being, foster are funding will will help connections and help encourage encourage promote healthy people to people to and resilient live healthier islanders and live healthier lifestyles and communities lifestyles and improve their helping them to improve their resilience. I’m recover from the resilience so grateful to impact of the the groups pandemic. for applying Islands to help improve the lives Secretary Mairi Gougeon of the people living across said: ‘It’s important Scotland’s islands and I can’t communities have wait to see them in action.’ initiatives that can promote
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