The region’s Men’s Sheds are to benefit from a funding reprieve after the Scottish Government announced it would restore previously pulled support for this year.
The future of groups such as Forth Valley Men’s Shed - which supports around 50 to 60 members from across the area on a regular basis - had been cast in doubt after a £75,000 funding allocation to the Scottish Men’s Sheds Association was set to be cut from April.
It was a move criticised as “short-sighted” and “appalling” at the time by Mid Scotland and Fife MSP Alexander Stewart, one of a number of MSPs who wrote to Deputy First Minister John Swinney calling for a rethink.
