Beatrice Partnership Fund open for applications By Alan Hendry | Updated: 17:36, 25 January 2021 Get the Courier and Groat sent to your inbox every week and swipe through an exact replica of the day's newspaper The Beatrice Partnership Fund has reopened for the final time. The fund supports projects that are based on the east coast of Caithness and Sutherland as well as the Edderton, Tain, Inver and Tarbat community council areas in Ross-shire. The fund supports projects that create opportunities for skills and employment; empower communities to be more resilient through long-term social, environmental or economic improvements; or encourage regeneration to improve local infrastructure, landscape or heritage.