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Motion · S6M-03340 · 24 Feb 2022

Raban400 Project Receives £7,980 from the National Lottery Heritage Fund

Lodged by Audrey Nicoll Standard Motion 13 supporters

The motion

That the Parliament welcomes the news that Raban400:four hundred years of printing in Aberdeen, a project run by Robert Gordon University, has received £7,980 funding from the National Lottery Heritage Fund; understands that the National Lottery Heritage Fund gives grants to organisations in the UK to help to improve cultural heritage, museums, natural environments, parks and historic places to archaeology; further understands that the Raban400 project, aims to commemorate 400 years since Edward Raban came to Aberdeen and set up a printing workshop on Castle Street, becoming the official printer of the City and the University, and understands that the funding will help the project to develop a website that will reveal new and hitherto unknown aspects of Raban's life and his contribution to printing, both in Aberdeen and in Scotland more generally. 

Supporters (13)

Source: the Scottish Parliament motions and amendments record.