Our Partners

During the last eight years both Arrochar and Luss Church have received a great deal of help from partner organisations. In large part this has been because the Church has been very anxious to work with and learn from other people. It has also been because there is an inherent generosity in so many people towards Churches when they are seen as trying to do things which are for the common good and a little bit unusual. We could not have achieved any of our targets without the help of so many people and we acknowledge them here.

Historic Scotland: £310,864 towards the restoration of Luss Church.
Heritage Lottery Fund: £286,585 towards the restoration of Luss Church
Scottish Enterprise Dunbartonshire:    £54,000 towards the restoration of Luss Church
£5,000 towards the repair of the tower at Arrochar Church
£10,000 towards the building of the Pilgrimage Centre
£10,000 towards the equipping of the Pilgrimage Centre
£1,000 towards the installation of Satellite Broad-band
£11,875 towards the cost of the Wedding Video Project
Argyll and Bute Council: £10,000 towards the restoration of Luss Church
General Trustees of the Church of Scotland: £10,000 towards the restoration of Luss Church
£10,000 towards the restoration of Arrochar Church
Churches Grant Scheme: £44,876 towards VAT paid on restoration of Luss Church
Valentine Trust (through General Trustees): £10,000 towards restoration of windows in Arrochar Church
North British Trust: £6,000 towards the restoration of Arrochar Parish Church
Lomond and Rural Stirling Leader +:  £17,500 towards equipping of the Pilgrimage Centre
£39,000 towards employment of Development Staff
£5,499 towards Wedding Video Project
£16,836 towards development of Arrochar Pit Stop
£9,290 towards the 2006 Pilot Programme
£500 towards the setting up of a Children’s Library
Lloyds TSB: £500 contribution towards the restoration of Arrochar Church
Scottish Hydro Electric Community Trust: £416.30 towards the cost of the Pilgrimage Centre
The Scottish Executive: £1,000 towards the installation of Satellite Broad-band
The Church of Scotland Parish Development Fund: £45,000 towards employing Development Staff
Scottish Natural Heritage: £48,320 towards the cost of Luss Glebe pathway construction
Arnold Clark: £200 towards the Pilgrimage Centre project
The Loch Lomond Golf Club: £200 towards the Pilgrimage Centre project
Future Builders Seedcorn Fund: £24,999 towards the development of Arrochar Pit Stop
Arrochar and Tarbet Gala Fund: £256 towards the development of Arrochar Pit Stop
The Barr Foundation: £5,000 towards the 2006 Pilot Programme
The Morgan Foundation: £5,000 towards the 2006 Pilot Programme
Gareloch Support Services: £2,000 towards transport of accommodation units
Babcock Marine: £15,161 .40 towards the cost of the Luss Glebe Bridge
Scottish and Southern Energy: £1,500 towards a bursary to enable an overseas youngster to spend the summer in Luss as a member of
our leadership team.
The British Council: £3,398.17 towards 2007 Easter exchange (Connect Youth).
€31,234 .00 towards 2008 multinational exchange (Youth in Action – Connect Youth).
Rovigo National Park and Leader + (Italy): £4,229 .13 towards cost of inter-National Park exchange visit.
Leader + (Finland): £1,360 .56 to enable our staff to visit Finland for an international planning meeting.

We would not have made significant progress with our projects without the following donations in kind:
The Royal Engineers: construction of the Luss Glebe Bridge
Babcock Naval Services:   resourcing materials for the Luss Glebe Bridge
providing a clerk of works (Chris McCairns) for the bridge-building programme
providing, transporting and repairing two large porta-cabins
Qinetiq (Lochgoil): providing the six accommodation units which created the Pilgrim’s Palace
providing a naval dining table for the Manse dining room
Galt Transport: providing the use of an extending arm mobile crane
The Lodge on the Loch Hotel: providing all of the meals for our students, morning and evening for six weeks in 2006, and planning and contributing towards the cost of the new Manse kitchen in 2007; providing bedding, cabinets, curtains and seats for our summer programme; providing tables and chairs for the new Manse lounge.
The National Park: particularly Steven Kenney of the Rangers Service for instructing our path-builders
The Governments of Finland, the Czech Republic and Italy: student travel costs to and from the UK
Bovis Lend Lease: completing the pathway section identified for 2007
The Church of Scotland: providing a minister in training to work with the project during the summer of 2007.
Our resident team of volunteer workers: Jimmy Kelly (builder), Alastair and Stephen Campbell (joiners), Chris Whitesmith (plumber), Ian Michie, Mark McLarty and Kier Perryman (painters),  Helensburgh Explorer Scout Unit (labourers and garden path-builders), Gus Lennox (glebe pathway supervision).            
Our resident team of volunteer catering staff: May MacDonald, Jessie MacDonald, Anne Craig, Margaret MacEachern.