A north-east community centre will open in spring after the project received a major donation from a green energy firm.
Moray Offshore Renewables awarded the New Deer centre £28,000, which has allowed its management committee to complete the second phase of a construction project which first started nine years ago.
The £405,000 scheme, which will feature an all-weather sports facility, is now on course to be complete by Easter.
Project co-ordinator Helen Young said the centre was the result of hard work by the community.
She said: “We’re just absolutely delighted.
“The community is just anxious to get on and use it now.
“We’ve just taken our first booking for the Easter holidays for a sports programme we’re running for the children.”
Banff and Buchan MP Eilidh Whiteford, who helped put Moray Offshore and the centre’s management in touch with each other, added: “Some of their infrastructure is going to be based in New Deer so it’s very much them giving back to the community.
“I was delighted to be able to help facilitate that and I’m really pleased that the last little bit of funding needed has been raised.”
Moray Offshore hopes to build a 186-turbine windfarm in the Moray Firth, basing key infrastructure near New Deer.
That would include the building of landing works at Boyndie Bay, a 20-mile stretch of cabling and two new substations near the village.
The cables were initially going to come ashore at Fraserburgh, but the connection point to the national grid has since been moved.
It is hoped the town’s harbour could still benefit from the offshore project.
The developer has yet to decide which east coast port will serve as a base to support its turbines, with Fraserburgh, Wick and another – presently unknown – harbour believed to be under consideration by the firm.