The commitment and drive of the Mission team was awe-inspiring. Preparing a bid to develop a potential eyesore into an income-generating community asset in relatively short-time is not easy, even if you can work at it on a full-time basis. To achieve so much as a team of volunteers is amazing.
Gateway merely helped to put some figures together but working with this enterprise was particularly rewarding because of the infectious enthusiasm it generated. The project certainly deserves its £400k and I look forward to fish & chips in the new Mission when it opens in 2011.
You can get the full story from the Lochinver Mission website.
(Celebratory Photos: Roger Glover)
