The Aintree Scout Group is celebrating a funding boost thanks to the Building Better Regions Fund.
The fund aims to deliver better facilities and economic opportunities for regions.
The group has been granted $520,000 for the construction of its $1.04 million Aintree Scout and Community Centre.
Group leader Angela Carew said the funding would help provide a space the group could inhabit that is all their own.
“We’re a group in its infancy – less than a year old – and are currently operating out of a school gym,” Ms Carew.
“All of our equipment is currently piled in garages and rooms of houses… we are really limited in our ability to bring our scouts together to do some of the activities that scouts like to do.
“We need a single, safe and comfortable point for everyone to gather and build a sense of community.”
Ms Carew said the funding was “extremely helpful”.
“The cost of a scout hall is far greater than you’d expect – and without a grant like this, it can take many years for a Scout Group to raise sufficient funding to build a hall,”’ she said.
“This grant has put the Aintree Scout Group many years ahead of where it would otherwise be in its journey.”
Michaela Meade
