Curtain finally comes down on Lochaber Cinema Group
It looks like Lochaber Cinema Group (LCG) has finally decided to call it a day, with a lack of funding being blamed.
It looks like Lochaber Cinema Group (LCG) has finally decided to call it a day, with a lack of funding being blamed.
The group will now turn its attention to providing film screenings to communities in pop-up venues across Ross, Skye and Lochaber.
Scottish Land Fund it rejected an application for funding for a cinema because it had concerns about its sustainability.
The Lochaber Cinema Group (LCG) hosted the latest in its series of first pop-up cinema kids showings after the Lochaber Times stepped in to help keep the popular initiative going.
The Lochaber Times this week presented a cheque for £250 to the Lochaber Cinema Group to help fund its programme of community screenings of children’s films.
Detailed plans, which have been granted planning permission, outline how two units at Airds Cross will be converted into a community cinema.
The Lochaber Cinema Group will be revealing its latest plans in its bid to build a new cinema in Fort William at a public consultation meeting next week.
The money, from the Scottish Land Fund, will support stage one of the project.
The film is presented by National Geographic and features Leonardo DiCaprio.
LCG are hoping to create 10 new jobs.