A new £3 million community centre has been unveiled in east Perthshire.
The development in Rattray has a multi-purpose hall, changing facilities and community group rooms.
It will provide Perth and Kinross Council and local organisations the opportunity to deliver activities for young people, indoor games and sports, health and wellbeing services, adult learning, and parenting and family learning provision.
The hall can cater for a host of activities, ranging from a coffee morning to zumba classes.
In 2012, the council consulted the public over the regeneration of Blairgowrie and Rattray and received feedback highlighting the lack of appropriate facilities available to support the needs of the community, the primary school and the various service providers in the area.
Once a suitable site was identified next to Rattray Primary School, the local authority made inquiries and purchased it for the facility.
The centre is an environmentally-friendly building with a biomass heating system which is linked to the adjacent primary school. The community centre will be open during the school summer holidays.
Provost Liz Grant and Bob Band, the convener of the council’s lifelong learning committee, were both in attendance at the launch of the new centre.
Mrs Grant said : “I’m delighted to be here today to open this wonderful new facility for the Rattray community.
“I’m in no doubt that its use now and in the future will be shaped by the changing needs and aspirations of the community.
“I would like to thank everyone who has contributed to the delivery of this facility and the young people who have entertained us today.”
Mr Band said: “The council is investing in the future of the education provision across the area, and I am pleased that, with the official opening of the Rattray Community Facility, we take another step forward in upgrading what we are able to offer our residents.
“With this new facility we aim to support the communities in Rattray and Blairgowrie.”