Transparency
Grants awarded
Where the community's windfarm money goes. A full list of grants, with amounts, will be published here.
For the Trust to confirm: Does the Trust want to publish its grants (year, group, purpose, amount)? Funders and residents value it, and most development trusts do. If yes, please send the list from 2017 onwards, or the totals by year, and this page becomes a simple table updated each year.
What the Trust's records already show
Schemes for every household
- Winter Fuel Allowance: a payment to every eligible household each December since 2017: £150, raised to £200 in 2023. Take-up has been almost universal (CAP Report 2024).
- Taxi Card Scheme: a pre-paid taxi card for each household that applies, topped up every year since June 2018 (£150 a year, as last published).
- Broadband grants: towards satellite systems for homes with poor broadband, from September 2024.
- Educational Grants: up to £2,000 per resident towards a course, from August 2025.
Community projects
- The Kenmuir Arms: bought in 2019 and restored, with most of the cost from the Kilgallioch windfarm community benefit.
- EV chargers at the Memorial Hall: installation funded by grants from the Trust and the Regionwide Fund (Dumfries and Galloway Council).
- Parking at the Memorial Hall: £50,000 ring-fenced in the Community Action Plan.
- A grant to the Whithorn Trust towards a film highlighting the Whithorn Way and the local area, including New Luce (reported in the accounts for 2021–22).
For the figures, see the annual accounts, and the independent SRUC review of the Kilgallioch Windfarm Community Benefit Fund.
Get involved
Membership is free for everyone aged 18 or over who lives in the New Luce Community Council area. Members vote at the AGM and can stand as a director.