We have so far not perused the Big Lottery Fund because of the limit of £750,000 on the total size of the application. Our project is going to cost £2.6m!
It has occurred to me that we could look slightly more esoterically; by taking the project and dividing it into parts. That way we can provide the Big Lottery Fund with a project that would work for them, but at the same time give us a large part of what we will need.
This is something that we could now look at, with a view to getting an application together much quicker. It does have its complexities though. We will need to look at how this would fit with the whole project and our relationship with the other interested parties to the building.
Gregor
N.Gregor Macgregor
Chairman, The Grand Pavilion Ltd
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The first event occurred immediately after the meeting when new members could see for themselves how the project would work out including a tour of some parts of the building. 
This is the second pillar we needed, from which we can build the next stage of our project for the Pavilion. With this news we can now announce new things: Firstly, we will be launching “The Friends of the Grand Pavilion”; which allows us to tap that great pool of support we have in the area – and wider afield – and start the process of raising the large amount of money needed to complete this project. We will have various levels of member, depending on what people want to give. These gifts can be “gift aided” giving us the tax benefits we are now entitled to. “’The Friends…’ group is launched with our first Patron, Simon Groom, who spent much time in The Grand Pavilion as a youth. He may never have become the nationally famous celebrity that Simon now is, had he not had his eyes opened to the world; by the events organised in the Grand Pavilion in the sixties. We hope to be announcing more patrons over the next few weeks and months. To pull all this together we are also launching a new website; 