The 3rd Forth Valley Scout Group has received a whopping £8625 and Kinneil Band a sizeable £5000 boost.
The Scout windfall is earmarked for the replacement of the hall windows, now past their best at over 35 years old.
A 6ft high security fenc
e is also on the cards, which will keep out unwanted visitors from a planned adventure area for children. The area will include tarzan swings and concrete pipes to crawl through, this will also benefit other groups that make use of the hall.
Group Scout leader Kenny Noble, left, was delighted to get the good news and said: "I'm still grinning and am a bit tongue-tied!"
His colleague and group chairman Robert Nicol, pivotal in getting the cash, had learnt of the application's success a whole month before but was sworn to secrecy.
Robert wrapped up the award certificate and gave it to Kenny, with strict instructions not to open it until the official announcement date.
Kenny said: "I kept it locked away in a kitchen cupboard and didn't really suspect anything. We'd started planning for the work just over a year ago and I'd forgotten all about the award application."
An added bonus, said Kenny, was that it seemed to be 'for the full whack' allowing work to progress.
He added: "It means we can go ahead and get new windows, the old ones are pretty much falling apart.
"With them being more water-tight, then hopefully the money set aside for their maintenance can be spent on equipment for the children."
For Robert, the exciting news made all the time spent form filling worthwhile, but he said: "It has been hard to keep the news to myself."
The coming session will be the first for 15 years that Bo'ness has had a Scout group joining the Cubs and Beavers.
Thanks to a £800 donation from the Bo'ness Real Ale Appreciation Society an indoor climbing wall is also in the pipeline.
More financial backers would be welcome, as would lads keen to get involved with the organisation.
Contact details can be found in the Bo'ness district news each week.
The Kinneil Band, celebrating their 150th anniversary this year, will put their grant towards a commemorative book, CD and piece of music to mark the big occasion.
President Jim Buchanan said: "The band's delighted.
"We set up a special committee to celebrate our anniversary and they applied for this grant.
"We want to make a CD, commission a piece of music in three movements about life in Bo'ness and make a book to update the band's history."
The music is expected to be ready for a concert in Bo'ness town hall on September 26, with the book and CD hopefully out by Christmas.
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