Urgent Message from Friends of Bellfield, the group working to save Bellfield Church and Halls for the community

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Firstly, thank you for all your support so far!

We have set up a company ‘Action Porty’ as required by the Community Empowerment Act, and the Scottish Government have indicated that our Community Right to Buy application is in order.

This will be the first urban community right to buy registration in Scotland!

To complete the requirements set out by the Act we now need to recruit members of our company, Action Porty.

If you are local to Porty, then please sign up to become a member of Action Porty before Sunday early evening, 11th September.

A quarter of Portobello’s voters have already registered their backing for this attempt to secure Bellfield Church and Halls for the community, and we have every chance of securing Scottish Government support for this community buy out, and securing the funding we need to do so.

Please go to http://eepurl.com/ceEfbL and join Action Porty.

Joining is free, but note that if you have already registered your support with us online then you may be asked to ‘update your preferences’.

Please do, click through, show your support and let’s get this first urban Community Right to Buy registration in place so that we can buy the Church and Halls at their market value, and so save them for community use.

Best wishes

Justin