A Fife cinema is on the brink of closure unless a new operator can be found.
The Regent Cinema will close its doors next month after Leven Community Cinema, the charity behind the initiative, said that it intends to cease trading.
Notification has been given to the Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator (OSCR), with the final film set to be shown on March 24.
The decision has been taken due to the demands being placed on the volunteers who have kept the cinema open since the project began in December 2008.
Colin Cunningham, the charity’s treasurer, said that he hoped a new operator would take the cinema over.
He told The Courier: “I’m really positive that somebody will take it over.
“We are just about profitable we’re certainly not making a loss but we were always a not-for-profit group. The cinema was about creating a facility for the community.
“I’m just appealing that somebody may come forward and see it as a business opportunity.”
Mr Cunningham said that talk of closing the cinema emerged at the start of the year as the army of volunteers required to operate the venture began to feel the strain.
Should nobody emerge to take over the running of the cinema, Mr Cunningham said the committee felt it important that it should cease trading while the coffers remained healthy.
“The topic of closure first appeared on the cards six or seven weeks ago,” he added.
“We are all volunteers and all have full-time jobs. We’ve brought the cinema a long way, but none of us has the time to take things further forward.
“We just want to know that if it does shut then we will be doing it on a positive note and without any debts.”