Community Fundraising
"The community knows what the community needs." This simple fact makes us best placed to manage such a vital community asset and provide much needed services to our residents and visitors.
Make a donation
If you would like to make a no-strings-attached donation to our Community Benefit Society please click the button below to be redirected to our PayPal Donations page.
Your donation will be used to further the aims and objectives of the society as set out in our business plan. Thank you!
Crowdfund - closed
After our hugely successful community share offer, and successful applications to public funding bodies, the crowdfund campaign was the last piece of the puzzle to raise enough funds to complete our fundraising plan. Yet again, we were gobsmacked by the response, and raised our lower target of £40,000 in the first 8 hours it went live. In the following few weeks, our supporters continued to pledge and we finished with a phenomenal total of £66,496. These crucial funds were put towards essential works and redevelopment of the building once under community ownership.
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Community Share Offer
In September 2021 we launched a community share offer - our first big fundraising drive to secure the vital funds needed to purchase The Old Forge.
We were amazed to raise a total of £256,035 from primarily local resident shareholders.
Since then we have launched an Open Share Offer where eligible local residents can apply to become shareholders. If you live locally and are interested please get in touch for more information.
Public Fundraising
As part of our overall fundraising strategy we also applied to public funders and received support from the Scottish Land Fund and Community Ownership Fund. We are extremely thankful for the support, which played a pivotal role in us being able to bring the pub under community ownership.