More than £90,000 has been awarded by the Berry Burn Community Fund to local projects in Moray and the Highlands.
The hugely popular Piping at Forres event was one of 10 applications approved for funding, and has been granted £20,000 from the pot.
Dallas Community Development Trust was awarded £18,000 for new playground equipment, while Forres Golf Club will receive £21,000 for new perimeter fencing.
Grantown’s 250th anniversary celebrations also won support, with the fund being used to pay for a Regality Cross, a permanent landmark in the town centre.
Other projects to receive backing include Forres Christmas Lights, Grantown Playgroup, The Moray Way and Forres in Bloom.
Ian Widdowson is chairman of Forres Events, the voluntary group that runs Piping At Forres.
He said: “We are absolutely delighted to have been given this award.
“Piping At Forres is an incredibly expensive event to put on. While we got a lot of support in our first year in 2013, if you look at the amount of money we are attracting from public bodies, it is reducing.
“Therefore, we are very grateful to receive this award to put on as good an event as we possibly can and maintain the high standards we have set to date.
“Also, the better our event is the more people we attract and the greater the benefit to the local economy.”
The community fund is overseen by 10 volunteers living and working within the community council areas of Forres, East Nairnshire, Grantown-on-Spey, Cromdale and Advie, Speyside, Heldon, Findhorn and Kinloss, Finderne and Dyke Landward.
Fund chairman Eddie Tomkinson said: “We believe that the projects which we have decided to back this time round clearly demonstrate our commitment to helping people who are actively improving our community.”
The funds are raised through Statkraft’s 29-turbine Berry Burn Wind Farm, between Forres and Grantown.
Anyone wishing to apply for the next round of funding should do so by April 20.
For an application form, visit the wind farm website or e-mail admin@berryburncommunityfund.co.uk