James Fraser - who has been representing the Trossachs National Park area in tourism for close to 40 years - joins a university professor and an Aberfoyle Girlguiding representative on the list.

The 13 projects sharing in support include a new village pump track, music workshops in rural primary schools and a community food initiative that has already helped deliver more than 3,000 meals.

Viv Rollo is attempting to trace her father's historically significant ring after it was lost or stolen.

The book is described as a wry family story focusing on a sometime actor and panto dame who battles dyslexia to record his mother's memoirs.