Up to £2,500 is available for youth projects or healthy living projects and the scheme proposes to improve derelict spaces in key coastal towns by turning them into stalled spaces.

Examples of stalled spaces might include temporary public parks, community gardens, or sheds.

Stalled Spaces Scotland is a project to help communities breathe new life into under used-parts of Argyll and Bute.

The project seeks to help communities reconnect with their surrounding environment and build relationships with their neighbours.

Projects already under way in places like Rothesay and Campbeltown have seen lead community groups in these working with at least two others to improve the sites.

Argyll and Bute Council is working in partnership with Architecture and Design Scotland and is inviting community groups to apply for small grants and encourage the use of derelict land in Bowmore, Campbeltown, Cardross, Dunoon, Helensburgh, Inverary, Oban, Rothesay, Sandbank, Tarbert, and Tobermory.

Applications to the fund are invited from Helensburgh and Cardross and communities have until Monday, August 31 to apply.

For more information visit www.argyll-bute.gov.uk/stalled-spaces-scotland.