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

After the success of last years information day with over 200 people attending we would like to hold another information day for over 55's in the community and tell them about the activities and services they can access in their area. We want to inform about the voluntary sector opportunities including specialised groups eg Age Scotland, Dementia Scotland etc. We want to provide entertainment and refreshments. 

Funds requested: £1000

Hall Hire £150, Catering £400, Entertainment (2 hours musician's) £200, Publicity Materials £250

We would like some funding to run discos for special occasions throughout the year and also enough to run a tuckshop at the discos to help raise funds for the group. These discos will be ticketed to keep track of numbers but will be free for any young people to attend. The discos have previously been very well attended and provide a great opportunity for young people from across Irvine to come together and meet up.

Funds requested: £1000

West Coast Castles Hire - £200 per disco x 4 community events = £800 Tuckshop materials (sweets, juice crisps etc) - £200

Total - £1000

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  

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 

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

"EXPLORING THE ISLANDS IN NORTH AYRSHIRE"  Our project involves two outings one to Arran and one to Millport. Some of the family's that we work with have never been out of our local community.   We want to explore nature and wildlife on our doorstep so that before and after the outings we will work every Monday night on our findings and make vision boards on both islands that we can then share with the local community.  

Funds requested: £999

TRIP 1 - ARRAN  Boat £262.50 Train £94.50 Food £120.00

Trip 2  Millport  Boat £112.50 Train £139.50 Food £120.00 Bikes £150.00

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