A dozen good causes will benefit from thousands of pounds in funding generated by a 29-turbine wind farm.
Around £30,000 worth of contributions from the Berry Burn Community Fund have been made in the third round of community funding.
International renewables company Statkraft spends just under £167,000 of its profits made on the Berry Burn Wind Farm between Forres and Grantown on community projects
The wind farm has been in operation since early last year.
While the total sum donated this month is down by almost a third on the last round, those running the fund said they are pleased with the diversity of causes they have been able to support.
Fund chairman Eddie Tomkinson, a businessman in Forres, said: “The fund members are not tied to giving out a particular amount of money in each funding round – they use their discretion and make their decisions based on the quality of the applications before them.
“But naturally, given that there is a pot of just over £160,000 per annum and four funding rounds, it’s unlikely that any very large applications, or ones that do not entirely convince the fund members of their validity, will be viewed favourably.
“Distributing £40,000 every quarter may sound like a lot but it soon goes. This time round, we have offered some applicants funding only if they manage to raise the same or a greater amount themselves, and this is an approach we may take again in the future.”
The £32,000 will be spread across various projects in Moray and the Highlands, including £8,288 for new doors and windows at Edinkillie community hall, £8,000 to improve Grantown’s Christmas lights and £3,429 towards restoring a stain glass window in Rafford village hall.
Sporting clubs in Forres, Findhorn and Grantown along with youth organisations in Kinloss and Grantown-on-Spey will also receive donations, while cash-backing has also been granted to a river festival on the Findhorn and research into possible restoration work at Kinloss Abbey.
The community fund is overseen by ten volunteers living and working within the area surrounded by the windfarm.