STORNOWAY arts organisation An Lanntair has received £10,000 from wind farm charity Point and Sandwick Trust which will be spent on its education and outreach work across the islands, writes Katie Carabine.
The money comes from the profits of the trust’s community-owned wind farm at Beinn Ghrideag on the outskirts of Stornoway. This will be the first instalment of a £20,000-a-year commitment to the arts centre.
Point and Sandwick Trust general manager Donald John MacSween said it had committed the £20,000 ‘because we recognise that the arts and culture are very important – and very often in terms of supposed austerity they are the first budgets to be attacked’.