£10k lottery boost for arts group

Published 6 Feb 2012 14:00 2 Comments

AN INVERCLYDE arts group is focusing on the future after landing a £10,000 lottery cash boost.

RIG Arts Ltd has received a £9,819 Awards for All grant from Creative Scotland.

The cash boost will go towards equipment to allow them to deliver a wide range of community arts activities and to further establish the group as an arts company in Inverclyde.

It will fund website re-design, business cards and marketing brochures, plus a scanner, projector, printer, three laptops and accessories, camera, audio recorder, camera support and follow focus system and a radio microphone.

Mr McKenzie said: "I feel this is a great opportunity to mention that RIG Arts Ltd in the Inverclyde constituency has recently received an Awards for All grant from Creative Scotland.

"This means that RIG Arts will be able to purchase the necessary equipment to enable them to deliver a wide range of community arts activities and establish as a professional arts company in the Inverclyde area.

"In turn, this will mean that the people of Inverclyde will have the opportunity to become part of a wonderful community group to make sure they are giving their minds the creative stimulation they need to fend off those winter blues."

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This article appeared in Greenock Telegraph 06 Feb 12

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  RABCARSWELL
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  Feb 6, 17:22
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  Is this really what we pay McKenzie £66,000 a year for,plus lavish expenses and London accommodation costs?
  
  I would have thought RIG Arts Ltd to be more than capable of getting their own publicity across via the Tele and by other means.
  
  Given the very serious problems we have in Inverclyde-relating to severe poverty,unemployment and crime-posing for the Tele photographer,dressed up to the nines,shouldn't even be on McKenzie's list of priorities. Though this did appeared to be his main activity as councillor,it simply won't do as an MP. He will serve his time in this current parliament as an opposition back-bencher. This should leave him plenty of time to be involved in the real issues we have,here in Inverclyde.
  
  By indulging in this flittering about,McKenzie risks getting the name of being a dilettante,in the worse sense of the word.
  
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  wig-wam-tam
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  Feb 7, 10:48
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  Perhaps mckenzie should be spending his time in achieving his one hundred jobs in one hundred days promise, the one he made when he was elected. He seems to have broken that promise on all counts.
  
  Perhaps his is one of the heads needing to be banged together - another promise he made that seems to have come to nothing.
  
  Never mind though, the Tele will always let him have a wee photie in the paper, just so people can be reminded of what he looks like
  
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