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Selkirk Regeneration SCIO
- Membership number 8150
- Charity registered in Scotland SC037397
Selkirk Regeneration (SR) is a community-based charitable status, formed to take forward projects for the benefit of Selkirk and surroundings, following a principle of sustainable development.
Membership is open to all in the community who support the aims of SR. The current Board comprises of 8 local residents, elected by the membership, who have strong links with many other community organisations and bring together a wide range of relevant professional skills and experience. Frequent “listening days” and involvement in community events give local residents the opportunity to input ideas.
SR has established itself as a proactive force for sustainable change and environmental improvement within the local community by promoting and implementing a range of projects, which include: • carrying out a feasibility study with extensive community consultation, into potential community-owned wind farm, funded through a CARES loan of £90K; • establishing Selkirk as a Fairtrade town; • establishing a biennial Arts Festival; • securing funding to reinstate historical street signs in town; • recovering to Selkirk the historic “Selkirk Silver Arrow”; • active involvement with other local organisations to draft the Selkirk Community Action Plan 2012-15; and currently working towards a new action plan; • running a temporary community hub in a leased former pub, providing meeting and exhibition space for local groups and artists; • acquiring and renovating a prominent empty shop in the High Street, and then establishing and continuing to manage it as a successful pop-up shop; • active involvement in instigating the Selkirk Conservation Area Regeneration Scheme (CARS) project and the Selkirk Business Improvement District (Selkirk Means Business); • publishing a book of historic photographs of the town; • assisting with the establishment of, and procuring premises for, a Selkirk "community shed" (now established as an independent charity); • lobbying local and national government for the provision of a Selkirk by-pass; • acquiring a further derelict shop in the town centre, and obtaining £76K in funding to renovate it to use as a community asset, currently the home of Sustainable Selkirk's Community Energy Advice Centre; • working towards a community-owned renewable energy project.
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