Visitors to Kirkcudbright will now find it much easier to find their way around the town’s fifteen public attractions and facilities through the installation of a new, uniform series of seven black and gold finger-post signs. The project was initiated by Rotary Club of Kirkcudbright and taken up by the Kirkcudbright Forum, under whose auspices the greater part of the funding required was secured. The project would not have gone forward without a successful application to the Dumfries and Galloway Coastal Benefit Fund, administered by Dumfries and Galloway Council, and the all-important support of several community organisations – the Rotary Club of Kirkcudbright, Kirkcudbright Development Trust, Kirkcudbright Summer Festivities, the Harbour Cottage Trust and Kirkcudbright History Society which together provided the necessary local match funding required to secure the main grant. The Forum also received a total of 10 letters of support for the project from various organisations in the community.
Kirkcudbright Forum are very grateful to all funders and supporters for their contribution.
Alex Kinnell led a small project team from the Forum, which designed and steered the signage project to its successful conclusion. Andy Campbell, chairman of Kirkcudbright Forum, commented:-
“In many ways this project brought out the very best in Kirkcudbright. The community
identified a way in which the Town would benefit from more attractive looking signage and lots of people in the community all pulled together to deliver the project in a very short period of time. I believe that the signs will be very much appreciated by both residents and visitors to the Town.”