Provision of community lunches and essential training for volunteers providing them with valuable skills while fostering community engagement and collaboration through shared meals and teamwork.

The aim of the knitting and sewing group is to make fidget muffs and fidget aprons/ blankets for people with dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. These are helpful for local nursing homes such as Cumbrae Lodge who give these to residents to help keep them calm and occupied.

Santa's needs a new home and a trip down Memory Lane. Bourtreehill and Broomlands community Association (BABCA) would like to apply for funding for to hold a Sixties and Seventies evening next Valentines with food and to give Santa's Grotto a makeover and offer a free activity at Christmas for children good or naughty to visit Santa in his new home at the annual Christmas Fayre and receive a pressie free of charge.

Springside Parent Council are aware of the importance of a full belly in the morning to aid the learning and concentration of our children. It would be our intention to provide breakfast baskets to the school weekly from which children can help themselves from.

Irvine Horticultural Society put on the annual Marymass Flower Show and we are seeking funding to help run the Marymass Flower Show 2025 along with some introduction to horticulture sessions.

We would like funding to replace our shed which was destroyed by vandals, this will allow us to restart community growing initiatives and horticulture projects.