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Irvine Newtown Menshed
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
Our Menshed is working very successfully making much needed essential items for Community groups and individuals, as well as being a meeting place for men and aiding their mental health. If we are awarded the maximum amount of £1,000 it would help us to upgrade machinery and tools, also helps us to install an air filtering system to filter and extract wood dust from machinery in our busy workshop
Funding requested: £1000
Air Filtering System £800 Upgrade machinery and tools £450
Redburn Monday Club
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We would like to have mental health nights at the group where we get food in and spend time relaxing away from the stress of life and school. To develop our life skills, we would like to have mini cooking classes to allow us to make meals on a budget, but we need cookers to do this.
Funds requested: £1000
4 tabletop cookers - £640 Kitchen utensils - £50 Aprons £26 Baking trays, mixing bowls - £50 Food - £234 Total - £1000

Irvine Old Parish Church
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
Working in 2022 with members of the congregation together with clients of Crossreach 's Umbrella Project and pupils from Glebe Primary School, we have created the framework of a community garden in what was an unused and overgrown space within our grounds at the rear of the church hall.
However, we now need to build on what was achieved last year and great raised plant beds to to allow the less able bodied to participate and create seating areas to allow for social interaction.
Funds requested: £950
Timber to build the frames approx. £250 Lining for the frames: approx £80 (£8 per roll) Soil for frames: approx £240 (£6 per pack of 50L) Bark for seating area approx £180 (£8 per pack of 100L) Chairs & Tables approx £200
Castlepark Pegasus Club
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We would use the funding to take all the Pegasus group members on a trip to Blair Drummond Safari Park. This would be a real boost to the mental health and wellbeing of all the group members and provide an opportunity that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to afford. Going away on trips allows the group to bond closer together and link up with each other.
Funds requested: £1000
Bus cost - £550 Blair Drummond Tickets - £450 Total - £1000

Break A Leg Drama
2023-02-08 • No comments • • Irvine
We have recently seen larger numbers coming to our classesso our aim is to do a production of Annie the musical. we are going to double cast the show so that all students get to be in the performance. Feedback from our Christmas production demonstrated that everyone felt more confident, their mental wellbeing was so much better and enjoyed working on a project with end result.
Requested Amount: £1000
Sound engineer £300 Lapel microphones hire £250 Theatre hire £300 Transport £150
Springside Youth Group
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We would like cooking lessons and to buy hobs and ingredients allowing us to plan and cook a healthy menu promoting a healthy lifestyle with a focus on the rising cost of living. We would like a themed party night where the young people can develop important social and life skills such as planning and budgeting. The group is somewhere young people from the Springside area can come together each week and take part in fun activities, spending time with friends. We would also like to experience a new activity such as ski-ing at Newmilns Dry Ski Slope as well.
Funds requested: £1000
Kitchen equipment and cooking resources £600 Fun / Themed nights £200 Ski Trip £200
Vennel Gardens Entertainment Committee
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
As a new starting committee we would like to apply for a budget for a trip, live entertainment at Vennel Gardens and purchase public liability insurance.
Funds requested: £1000
Public Liability £140 Trip (Bus hire) £450 Entertainment (live performers) £410
Towerlands Youth Group
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We are a new youth group and are starting from scratch and would like to build up some arts & craft resources and sports equipment such as a table tennis table. We would also like a speaker and projector and screen to allow us to have discos, movie nights or quizzes. These activities will allow us to have fun with our friends in a safe space away from school and home.
Funds requested: £1000
Projector and screen – £200 Speaker - £30 Table tennis table - £160 Sports equipment - £250 Arts and crafts - £250 Chess – £10 14 in 1 multi games table- £100
Total - £1000
Castlepark Knitting and Sewing Group
2023-02-13 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We would like the funding to buy supplies such as wool and material to make fidget muffs as well as fidget blankets/ aprons to give out to local nursing homes and vulnerable people. The group works in partnership with Woodland View Hospital and have links with vulnerable elderly people in the community who benefit from the items we make.
Funds requested: £600
Wool (various) - £200 100g ball, £3.58 200g ball, £9.99 300g ball, £11.60
Material (various) - £400 £34.18 per metre £6.99 per metre £25.36 per metre

Fullarton Community Association
2023-02-21 • No comments • • Connected Communities • Irvine
We wish to improve our community’s overall health and wellbeing. Providing practical support as individuals not only continue to try and recover from the Coronavirus pandemic but also now strive to navigate their way through new challenges arising from the current cost of living crisis.
Through facilitating monthly “Community Sunday Afternoon Get Togethers” we wish to provide free access to help tackle both food and fuel poverty, whilst at the same time offering opportunities for inclusive activities. These inclusive activities will help to address some of the social isolation issues that many vulnerable members of our community are currently experiencing.
Funding requested: £800 to contribute towards the cost of food and drinks provision at the Get Togethers