NEWS & EVENTS
We are extremely excited to announce our main prizes for the raffle at this years Newmilns Food Festival, generously donated by J H DONALD!
Newmilns Easter Egg Hunt - Sunday 9th April, Lanfine Estate - in conjunction with Darvel Improvement Group - free to attend event.
Today saw the official handover of keys from the last Postmaster, David Gulline, to Loudoun Valley Trust, who have agreed to lease the Post Office to Newmilns Regeneration Association
Public Meeting - Sunday 24th April 2pm-4pm in the Morton Hall - give us your ideas, opinions and feedback on the Action Plan for Newmilns
Announcing the first Newmilns Food Festival! Saturday 17th September 2016, 11.00am - 5.00pm at Jamieson Park, Newmilns.
Organised by the Newmilns Regeneration Association and supported by local businesses, the Community Food Fund and Awards for All, this FREE to attend Food Festival will showcase the best of local food and drink.
The NRA are holding a "Coffee, Cake and Reminisicing Morning" on Saturday 16th May in the Church Hall 10am - 12 noon
The new NRA Notice Board has now been erected in Newmilns
Meeting to be held in the Morton Hall on Thursday 30th April 2pm-6pm for all Newmilns Groups and Businesses
Darvel Music Festival 2015 runs from 1st May to 10th July in Darvel Town Hall
Just in time for the Newmilns Gala, we're very proud to launch our Love Newmilns range of products.
NRA's Love Newmilns Facebook page has had overwhelming support from across the planet!
A team of our NRA members headed off to the capital to present a petition from the town.
Newmilns launch new action plan and is one of six areas to benefit from funding from Ayrshire programme which aims to transform 21 local communities.
NRA Announcement - Hopi Energy
Newmilns Regeneration Association are delighted to announce that they have formed a joint venture company with community energy company Hopi Energy and landowners David and Irene Cadden of East Heads, Newmilns
The new Company, Renewables for Regeneration at Newmilns LLP, will be seeking planning consent for a 500Kw wind turbine on Irene and David’s land at East Heads in the coming months.
Hopi Energy, one of the Partners, is a Community Interest Company based in Falkirk, whose mission is to distribute the wealth from renewable energy to community projects as well as put an end to fuel poverty.
This is a unique opportunity where the Community benefit is considerably increased with NRA being part of the Joint Venture, not simply receiving a benefit payment from the developer as happens in most cases.
Newmilns Regeneration Association will receive a substantial up front lump sum to be used on a single project within the Town as a major initiative to promote regeneration and employment.
As Partners in the Joint Venture they will also receive 10% of the net profit of the Company for the life of the turbine along with an annual payment of 4% of generated gross income as a community payment.
Newmilns Regeneration Association are not providing any funding into this venture but have been working closely with the two other Partners to form the new LLP and all legal agreements are now in place.
Pre Planning work is being fully supported by Local Energy Scotland through their CARES Scheme without which this project would not have happened.
Public support will be needed for this project which will bring much needed financial community benefit to assist NRA in the regeneration of the Town.
A spokesperson from NRA said “this project will provide NRA with funding to work towards the objectives set out in the Local Action Plan which was determined following a wide public consultation. There will be further public consultation in relation to this proposal in due course but NRA are committed to seeking funding sources to allow it to carry out all its objectives.”
