Last week, the trust revealed they had been awarded £4,250 by the Commonwealth Celebrate Fund to create the Rosneath Peninsula Drumming project.

They were also awarded £1,850 by the Co-operative Community Fund to organise the 2014 Sea Change Festival.

The drumming project – managed by the trust’s arts group – has been designed to mark the Commonwealth Games by celebrating the culture of the Caribbean and African Commonwealth countries.

It will be an inclusive project involving the children and adults of the Peninsula in drumming lessons and providing the local community with its own drumming equipment to help ensure a legacy of drumming well beyond the games this August.

In addition to a set of drums, the funding will allow the trust to work with the primary schools in Kilcreggan and Rosneath to develop the celebrations. This will include tuition for a mixture of children, young people and adults.

The project will culminate with the drummers leading the trust’s annual Peninsula Sea Change Festival – which takes place over three days in June – and performing at the Cove Burgh Hall schools art exhibition and young people’s entertainment on Saturday, June 21.

A spokesman for the trust said: “We are delighted to be hosting the Sea Change festival for the third consecutive year. We, and all in our communities, extend a warm welcome to everyone to come along and take part in all, or any, of the events over the weekend.” The trust’s longer-term ambition is to maintain and enhance the skills and interest in drumming to ensure we have a drumming group on the Peninsula for many years to come.

The Sea Change Festival runs from June 20 until June 22 and encompasses arts, culture, and music with a strong focus on the sea – embracing the Peninsula’s water side location.

It will include, amongst other things, shore sculptures, much like the existing and iconic Tut Tut sculpture, children’s sculptures, music, a fancy dress parade, a pop up art gallery, children’s art exhibition, a performance by the Peninsula choir, and performances by local musicians and actors.

On the evening of Saturday, June 21 the Cove Burgh Hall will play host as the Peninsula joins the rest of the world in a global Commonwealth 24-hour ceilidh. It all kicks off in New Zealand with Scotland finishing the event in style.

If anyone would like more information on the Sea Change festival, drumming project, the global ceilidh or the trust in general, please contact them via their website at www.rosneathpeninsulawest.com.