Peter Pan house in Dumfries forced to close its doors

By then it had been transformed into a visitor centre which presented both the domestic setting which Barrie had known and the Never Never Land which twinkled on the edge of it all.

Full of books, and stories, and little corners to curl up and read in, it was the kind of place any child would love and any grown-up would wish they had discovered in childhood.

The centre had just a year to find its feet before Covid shut everything down. Like many organisations, they have never truly recovered.

A fall in visitor numbers and public funding, competition for sponsorship, and the cost of living crisis have all taken their toll.

It’s a situation in which many organisations will find themselves in coming months.

Creative Scotland must make funding decisions about 200 arts organisations in just two months’ time without knowing what money is available to them.

For Moat Brae, even that wait is too long as they will close their doors on 23 August.