SELKIRK students are set for a trendy term or two after their school landed a grant for lighting up their fashion designs.

And the cutting-edge classes will cumulate in a spectacular show to be staged in the school.

A Lottery award of £7,323 to Selkirk High School will be used for fifth and sixth year pupils to learn about fashion design and stage production.

And will also help purchase some much-needed new stage equipment.

Part of the catwalk curriculum will include a date with Vivienne Westwood’s studio in London.

Educational consultant Clair Hood told the Border Telegraph: “The Creative Fashion course allows secondary school students of all academic abilities the chance to work together in a productive, supportive environment.

“The money from Awards for All will allow us to add to the limited sound and lighting equipment already in the school which will help us to stage our fashion show.

“We are taking pupils from the course to London in December and we’ve arranged a visit to Vivienne Westwood’s studio as well as Central St Martin’s college of Art and Design.” Volunteers will be recruited from the Selkirk community over the coming weeks and months to help run the fashion show in a variety of roles from lighting to sound.

This week’s funding announcement from the Big Lottery Fund was also good news for Hawick-based Alchemy Film and Arts.

A grant of £8,271 will be used to launch a seven-months film-making programme across five towns.

It is also hoped that volunteer-led film clubs will be established in each town.

Across Scotland, 103 community groups will share National Lottery funding worth £739,234. An Awards for All spokesperson, said: “Today’s awards will make a big difference to communities the length and breadth of Scotland. “Awards for All helps groups do things they would otherwise be unable to do, and for relatively small amounts of money. This latest round of grants showcases the range of projects we fund, all of which are putting something back into their communities.” Borders-based Sound Out received £772 to buy new equipment for organising music and arts events.

And Jedburgh’s Jed Shed, which started in November, 2013, was granted £4,265 to furnish and publicise its new premises.

Grantshouse Community Council also received £9,992 to develop action plans for their Berwickshire community.