Cultybraggan Camp 21 Self-Catering & Bunkhouse Project

The Trust is very happy to have had a successful community share offer for the Cultybraggan Camp 21 Bunkhouse project which closed on Friday 27th November. The share offer raised a total of £27, 325 with 63% local investment and 37% non local investors. Thank you to all who have helped to support this unique project and to thank you to the new shareholders who we will continue to work with. . Cultybraggan Camp is the last remaining WWII high security POW camp in the U.K (Camp 21). It is a unique historic environment which has been recognised by Historic Scotland as having international significance. Comrie Development Trust (CDT) is now offering Community Shares, giving individuals the opportunity to invest in sustaining part of Cultybraggan as the best preserved P.O.W camp in Scotland. The community of Comrie acquired Cultybraggan Camp in 2007, from the army, to ensure that it survived intact. Now we have secured funding from Historic Scotland, the Heritage Lottery Fund and Scottish & Southern Energy to refurbish a key group of vacant listed buildings within the camp. This share offer will provide the final piece of the funding package, and demonstrate widespread support for this unique endeavour, which will give new life to these buildings as bunkhouse and self-catering accommodation. The Comrie Heritage Group was formed in 2012 in response to a CDT community consultation. Since then the group has worked tirelessly on various projects including raising the profile of the camp, with the aim of increasing the understanding of its history, whilst conserving the unique environment at Cultybraggan. The group is delighted that the Camp 21 Bunkhouse proposal will give CDT the opportunity to protect this key group of buildings. Members are also actively working towards plans for other buildings to maintain the site, make it more economically viable in the long term and ultimately preserve it for future generations as a space to reflect upon events in the past. . “The