A CLYDEBANK charity’s bid for a grant of £20,000 to help install a “changing places” toilet at its premises should be turned down, council officials have said.

Dalmuir-based Golden Friendships has applied to the Alexander Cross Cameron Trust Fund, which is overseen by West Dunbartonshire Council, for money to carry out the work at its Nairn Place base.

But a West Dunbartonshire Council official says that the committee which is responsible for deciding on grant awards from the fund should award nothing to the charity.

The Alexander Cross Cameron Bequest Committee is due to meet today (Wednesday) to consider Golden Friendships’ application.

The charity says it wants to install the facility “to accommodate those who need assistance transferring from chair to toilet”.

A report prepared for today’s committee meeting says: “The Trust Deed states that the purpose of the Alexander Cross Cameron Fund is for ‘considering applications by or on behalf of non-profit making community groups for grant assistance towards the cost of one-off community activities within Clydebank, the objectives of which are in the opinion of the Trustee, to assist and relieve those in need by reason of age, ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage’.

“The proposed use of the grant appears to fall outwith the aims of the Trust as outlined in the Trust Deed.

“The purpose of the grant appears to be capital works which doesn’t constitute a one-off community activity.”