The Cour Community Fund is a fund that has been established to support the communities local to the wind farm and is administered by FERN Community Funds. East Kintyre is one of three community council areas to benefit from the fund.

For a trial period from January 2025, this fund will be administered by the East Kintyre Community Fund and all applications should be made to EKCF using their forms and during the published early spring/autumn funding windows. See the EKCF page here.

Cour Windfarm was commissioned in 2016 (energised in March 2017) and has 10 turbines, with total nominal power of 20.5 MW. The developer was Blue Energy Wind Limited. Octopus purchased the wind farm in 2017.

The Cour Community Fund is a fund that has been established to support the communities local to the wind farm and is administered by FERN Community Funds . Ideally, the Fund aims to support projects that improve the local community; anything which promotes the economic, social or environmental sustainability of the local area.

What is the benefit?

The benefit size is £102,500 per year. If there are any funds left over, these will be rolled over to the following year.

Eligible areas:

East Kintyre, West Kintyre, Skipness and Tarbert

Who can apply and benefit? 

Social enterprises, charities, local community groups, voluntary organisations.

How much funding can be applied for?

The minimum award is £250. The maximum award figure is £50,000; however, in exceptional circumstances, this may be increased for larger projects applications.

The Fund will support up to 90% of the overall project costs (e.g. if your overall project cost is £1,000, the fund may support up to £900 of this by the grant).

How do you apply?

The fund will be open twice annually for applications, you can find out more details and apply by clicking here. Information about Grants Awarded can be found here.