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About Dunterlie

Work began alongside the community of Dunterlie in May 2017, and has involved:

Community space

Increasing access to Dunterlie Resource Centre for the local community. Creation of Resource Centre user’s group to increase ownership of and access to the space.

New activities

Formation of Dunterie Foodshare distributing food locally. Development of new Baby and Toddler group. Formed new holiday partnership to provide school holiday activities for families.

New groups

Alongside supporting Dunterlie Baby and Toddlers, supported Dunterlie Planning and Action Group to design and deliver new activiies.

Participatory grant making

Design and delivery of a participatory grant mking project distributing money to local groups to support the community with the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Community map

Dunterlie by Corra Foundation

In this interactive map, you can explore the area of Dunterlie and some of the areas important to the community.

Dunterlie Community Centre

Carlibar Primary School and St John’s Primary School

The Waterworks

The MUGA

Allotments

What’s been happening?

Dunterlie

Annual Update 2022 Snapshot

It has been an exciting but challenging year for Getting Alongside Communities in Dunterlie. Groups were finally able to come together again properly as the effects of the lockdowns reduced and the community began to recover. However, the cost of living crisis presented new challenges for the community and the various groups in the area.

Alongside this, Dunterlie had a change of Co-ordinator in April as Laura went off on maternity leave and Neill took on her role. This, of course, presented other challenges as the community built trust with Neill and he got to know local people, the groups and the wider community.

However, the change went really well, thanks to the amazing support given to Neill by the local community and partner organisations. This allowed a continuation with the recovery and an opportunity to build momentum post-lockdown and for a number of new activities and projects to develop including:

  • Foodshare – £25k funding, development of creative waiting room/warm space, Beyond the Foodbank project.
  • Dunterlie Action Group – Awards for All, MUGA re-development, Community Enterprise support.
  • Holiday Programme – programme of summer activities, funding, development of groups.
  • TRACS, Creative Waiting Room and Folks Music Project – Burns Night, Music Provision and stories becoming part of the community.

All of these new developments have made Dunterlie an exciting place to be in 2022 with new people and projects coming to the community and creating a sense of hope as groups came together again for the their first Christmas events since 2019 and rebuilt a sense of togetherness, cohesion and renewed community in the area.

Get Involved

Community Co-ordinator:      Laura Mathieson

The momentum created in Dunterlie in 2022 feels like a potential tipping point in the development of Corra’s work in the area.

Organisations such as Dunterlie Action Group and the Foodshare have an opportunity to think more long term as we move on from the pandemic and lockdowns. This chance to look to the future will give them the opportunity to think about their role in the community and how they can develop to build upon the work which has been done in the area since Corra first arrived.

Dunterlie Resource Centre is now a vibrant and exciting place to be, with a growing interest in the activities happening there and getting involved.

The next steps in building on this involve thinking about how the community can have greater control of the space in order to realise the ambitions they have for the centre and its role in the community.

The continued development of partnerships with organisations such as EGID, BHA, Culture and Leisure will be central to this and a move towards thinking about how the work Corra have supported the community to develop can be sustained and built upon in the long term.

Further reading and related content

group of women with text 'Dunterlie annual update 2022'

Dunterlie Annual Updates 2018-2022

Picture of Rena and Corra Foundation Logo

A community story by Rena