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Duff House tourist attraction could get £100,000 grant boost

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A popular north-east tourist attraction is in line for a £100,000 grant after visitor numbers increased last year.

Duff House, near Banff, is managed by Historic Environment Scotland and run in partnership with Aberdeenshire Council.

The local authority provides an annual grant to keep the Georgian estate – which also serves as a gallery and museum – operating as a tourist destination.

During the last financial year ,there was an 8.7% rise in visitor numbers to the house, up from 17,770 the previous year to 19,323.

Now, members of Aberdeenshire’s education, learning and leisure committee have been asked to authorise a £100,000 grant to Duff House to build on the site’s success.

In a report to the committee, council project manager, Kevin McDermott, said: “Aberdeenshire Council is committed to, and recognises the value of, partnership working.

“There are some key partners with whom we have long-established partnership arrangements and whom it is proposed to continue to support in 2016-17.

“The committee is asked to approve continued funding of £100,000 for Duff House.”

A number of other north-east bodies are also in line for grant funding from the local authority. It is proposed that £90,000 be given to the Museum of Scottish Lighthouses in Fraserburgh which maintained annual visitor figures of just over 10,000.

Elsewhere Aberdeen Foyer, which operates projects in Fraserburgh and Peterhead to get people into work, could receive £82,500.

Mr McDermott’s report noted a “significant increase” in activity from the Foyer in Fraserburgh earlier this year after job losses in the town.

The education, learning and leisure committee will meet at Woodhill House tomorrow morning to agree the funding.