A major improvement programme is back under way at Castle Douglas Community Centre as it recovers ground lost through two years of Covid-enforced disruption.
Dozens of local groups had been using the Cotton Street premises as a base for activities before the pandemic hit – and only now are numbers and confidence returning to something approaching pre-pandemic levels.
The upturn has come as a welcome relief to the community-run centre which, like all others, has been hard hit by months of inactivity.