Macduff’s Tarlair outdoor swimming pool restoration project receives funding for final stage
Plans for the final stage to restore a former outdoor swimming pool has received more than £43,000 of funding.
The Friends of Tarlair community group has been awarded a Community Capacity Grant from Crown Estate Scotland’s Sustainable Communities Fund.
The £43,900 funding will be used to support design drawings for the final stage of restoration of the historic coastal Art Deco lido and outdoor swimming pool on the outskirts of Macduff.
The Community Capacity Grants are part of Crown Estate Scotland’s Sustainable Communities Fund which has, since its launch in 2020, distributed more than £1.7 million to a wide range of projects across the country.
The grants seek to provide early-stage interventions supporting projects that may otherwise struggle to secure initial funding.
This year’s awards show a particular focus on transforming underused and dilapidated properties into thriving community assets.
Pat Wain, chairwoman of Friends of Tarlair, said: “This funding will help complete the final stage in a restoration project for one of Scotland’s most iconic coastal Art Deco outdoor swimming pools.
“Having finished work on the pavilion, terraces and inner boating pool, this money from Crown Estate Scotland will help us to bring back to life the main swimming pool – the focus of the whole complex.
“Having opened in the 1930s and having been enjoyed by thousands of people until the 1990s, we cannot wait to welcome back members of the public who we are sure will be as impressed as we have been by this beautiful community resource.”
Penny Coles, head of partnerships with Crown Estate Scotland, said: “This latest round of funding awards – the fifth since the Sustainable Communities Fund was launched – features projects which all demonstrate an ambition to make a tangible and lasting improvement to local people and visitors alike.
“We at Crown Estate Scotland are excited to be supporting the delivery of such important and positive projects which will help bring about improvements to the lives and economies of communities across Scotland.”
