The first allocations of cash from the £20m Orkney Fund have been made to 12 community-led projects across the county. First wave aims to help get projects to finish lineThis first wave of funding will be used for “capacity building”. It will “strengthen an organisation’s ability to successfully deliver a project”, the Orkney Fund board has said. The Orkney Fund, formerly known as the Orkney Towns Fund, was created after it was announced last year the county would be getting £20 million in funding through the previous UK Government’s Levelling Up funding stream. This process required a local board to be created and the Orkney Fund Board was created.