News from Kate Forbes

Crowdfunding plea continues for purpose-built pod so terminally-ill boy can remain at home

Big-hearted Highlanders are being urged to get behind a crowdfunding plea for a purpose-built pod so that a terminally-ill child – who is now completely blind and can only say ‘mummy’ – can remain at his family home near Inverness.

Highlanders urged to apply for new batch of rural tourism funding

Kate Forbes MSP has urged community groups across the Highlands to consider applying for Scottish Government funding aimed at helping rural communities deal with increased tourism.

Skye MSP told local kidney dialysis provision for islanders will start by April

Patients from the Isle of Skye will soon be able to receive treatment for kidney dialysis locally after the chief executive of NHS Highland confirmed to Kate Forbes MSP the service will start in the next six months.

Kate Forbes MSP backs campaign urging people to register electrical items

The constituency MSP for Skye, Lochaber and Badenoch has urged Highlanders to register their electrical items as part of Electrical Safety First’s new ‘Do It Now’ campaign.

Kate Forbes MSP welcomes confirmation that lion’s share of convergence funding will go to agriculture in remote areas

Kate Forbes MSP has welcomed confirmation from the Scottish Government that a significant proportion of convergence funding – owed to Scottish farmers by the UK Government – will go to those farming and crofting in marginal and remote areas.