history 4
The shed has been very useful to us as a store and workshop not only for ourselves but for our three founding clubs who also used the shed. In the early days, storage and workshop facilities were actually more important as far as the clubs were concerned than an auditorium, as they had been working in such locations as farm outbuildings, but all are now agreed that we can cope using accommodation in the Theatre and in the old Unity hut which has been made wind and watertight, and altered internally to maximise the space.
Having ploughed all of our funds into the church there now began another round of grant applications to secure funding to convert the church into a theatre. The Scottish Arts Council had awarded us £5,000 for the shed project, and this was held over and used in the first phase of the conversion of the church. An application to the Foundation for Sport and the Arts was successful although only for 40% of the sum requested, and a grant was also obtained from Galloway Groundbase.
Again Brian Murray was the architect, although by this time he had moved to Largs. We are frequently complimented on the design of the Theatre and are grateful to Brian for the sympathetic way he envisaged the conversion.
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