... and the walls came tumbling down

Time is just flying by and work is progressing in the office and in the cinema itself.   I've been busy submitting claims to funders for reimbursement of invoices received, preparing and updating cashflow projections and creating systems to ensure efficient and effective management of the funds for the refurbishment project.  I need a holiday now!

You may have seen a brief clip on BBC Reporting Scotland showing the digger in the cinema building.  This was to remove wooden and concrete floors as well as ground floor walls.  The existing foundations have been found to be in a sound condition and this has enabled work to progress.  The first concrete for the foundation has been poured around the inside of the existing walls incorporating all services ducts and this has passed Building Control inspection.

I believe the next step is to lift the roof!  Hope it stays dry long enough.

The FoTBC Board has been working with our solicitor, J&H Mitchell, to develop Articles of Association for a new company The Birks Cinema.  At an EGM of FoTBC on 30 April 2012 a resolution was passed authorising the Board to establish a Trading Company and to invite members of the Highland Perthshire and Killin communities to come forward and volunteer as the new Directors.  There has been an excellent response to this invitation and the FoTBC Board will be asked to approve proposed new Directors on 2 July 2012; the first meeting of the new Trading Company, The Birks Cinema, will be on 24 July 2012.

The post of Financial Co-ordinator and running costs of our office in the Locus Centre is being  financed by the Scottish Government and European Community Rural Tayside LEADER 2007-2013 Programme