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Glebe Primary PTA/PC
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Irvine
The PTA/PC have worked with the school and the parents/carers of the Glebe community to raise funds for a school trip each year. However due to the increased costs associated with this we may not be able to commit to this come the summer time.
School trips are such a wonderful experience for the children. The whole school attends on the same day and makes each pupil feel valued. These trips outside of school are important for the children's Health and wellbeing. They have huge benefits in supporting their friendships and relationship building with their peers.
Last school term we managed to fully fund various activities through the support of our parents/carers and we appreciate all of the support we have received to date. Some of these includes; playground markings around the whole school, Halloween party, Spring disco and a P7 leavers disco and year books.
Coach travel estimated for June 2025 is £2,500
Breakfast feeds Minds (Springside Parent Council)
2024-09-19 • No comments • • Irvine
Some children, through no fault of their own do not go to school with a full belly and we as a parent council would like to remedy this but also provide information to the children on the topic.
The way we would plant to do this is would be to launch our 'Breakfast feeds Minds' campaign. It would be our intention to provide the children in the school weekly breakfast hampers, available to any child who needs it, to ensure they have something healthy and nutritious before their school day begins. This would include granola bars, cereal pots, yogurt drinks and fruit etc that the children can grab easily but will keep them full until lunchtime.
The funding we are applying for would be broken down as follows
£900 for the purchase of breakfast items (this is based on a budget of circa £35 per week)
£100 for the procurement of literature to promote the importance of breakfast and how this feeds the health and wellbeing of a child
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Eglinton Park Path Stewards
2024-08-27 • No comments • • Irvine
Our voluntary group aims to promote social inclusion, mental health and wellbeing, physical activity and community service. We promote these aims within the group and, through our activities, to improve accessibility Eglinton Park's core pathways for all users.
Our work is in addition to, and goes above and beyond, the routine maintenance and repairs of the park as provided by Streetscene and North Ayrshire Ranger Service.
Our aim is to continue to improve the work that we are doing around Eglinton Park and also to grow our group. To be able to do this we need to replace existing worn out tools and upgrade our toolset to improve our offering to all users of Eglinton Park's core pathways and the community of North Ayrshire.
We are applying for funding to help us to promote the aims of the group as noted.
Tools that would help us to achieve our aims, with associated costings:-
Galvanised Wheelbarrow (x3) £270
Cordless Chainsaw (x1) £200
Ratchet Lopper Shears (x5) £150
Digging Spades (x5) £90
Round Spades (x5) £90
Extendable Tree Lopper (x1) £60
Heavy Duty Brushes (x3) £75
PPE, Gloves/Goggles (x12) £60
Friends of Redburn Community Group
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Irvine
Our goal is to continue providing community lunches and providing catering services, working in partnership with other local groups and bringing all members of our local community together regularly with a focus on alleviating poverty, reducing social isolation and enhancing mental health and well-being.
Our community group offers free lunches,or takes small donations, to all residents within Irvine, many of whom are affected by poverty, poor mental health, and social isolation and these lunches provide a vital lifeline, offering not only nourishment but also a sense of belonging and connection. These meals foster social interaction, breaking the cycle of isolation and helping improve their mental well-being.
In addition to the lunches, having a trained chef as a volunteer the group now offers an external catering service to partner organisations at cost which generates income, enhancing the sustainability of the group and allowing the group to continue supporting the community. Volunteers who help run the lunches and catering service will receive essential training in areas such as REHIS (food safety), hospitality, barista skills, first aid, and customer service. These skills not only equip volunteers to support the efforts but also enhance their employability and confidence, empowering them to make a meaningful difference in their community and benefiting them in other areas of their lives.
In order to achieve this the money provided would help with running costs for the lunches and provide external training for volunteers.
Breakdown:
Running Costs, including food and caretakers costs £500.00
Training and admin costs £500.00
Total applied for £1000.00
Coffee and Connect
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Irvine
Our group comes together once per week during term time where we enjoy each other’s company over a cuppa and blether. We also often take part in activities like flower planting, walking outdoors, being creative with arts and crafts. We have also previously connected with different organisations and partners such as Megan Space, NEST and Breathing Space, this has giving us tools to support each other and our families.
We would like the opportunity to bring our families together during the holiday periods, to help reduce any financial strain during this time. It also reduces isolation as it encourages us to get out and mix with other families. If we were successful in getting the funds, we would use the money for 1 family trip to heads of Ayr farm park and 1 family fun day at the Children 1st space. While it’s important to spend time together as families, we are also looking for money to support our weekly coffee and chat meet ups to help us to sustain and build on the group. We would spend the remaining money on 1 therapeutic experience and 2 breakfast morning. This financial support will build our confidence within our local community, support our emotional health and wellbeing, and reduce the impact of the cost-of-living crisis has on us.
Weekly Coffee and Connect
£120 – x1 Therapeutic Experience (like a sound bath, meditation etc)
£67.50 – x2 food provisions for a breakfast morning
Family Easter Day in Boutreehill x1
£240 – Artist fees for crafts and resources
£80 – Lunch
Family Summer Heads of Ayr Farm Park x1
£212.50 – 17 children’s tickets
£80 – Adult tickets (carers go free)
£200 – Transport
Photography for Everyone
2024-09-12 • 1 comment • • Irvine
It has been proven that engaging with photography can have a dramatic and positive impact on one's mental health. It encourages mindfullness and fulfilment. It can be a solitary activity but it can also be practised in the company of others in a social setting.
Irvine Camera Club (ICC) has a proven record of working with vulnerable people to deliver positive mental health outcomes. Our latest initiative was a collaboration with Ayrshire & Arran NHS to provide photography workshops for patients in recovery in order to give them a new focus in their lives. This was very successful. We are also an active contributor to the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival. We work closely with NAC Arts & Culture Team team to support their wider activities and to provide photography services for their activities. Our proposal is that ICC will host a series of photowalks during the summer of 2025, on weekday evenings and at weekends. These walks will be free for anyone to attend and will mainly take place North Ayrshire. We intend to advertise the walks on social media. We will use our regular pages in the Irvine Herald to advertise the photowalks, again at no cost.
The club has the facilities to gather the submissions and to evalutate them. ICC will self fund modest prizes for their chosen overall winner and runners up.
The costs of this project will be in the production of gallery edge-to-edge prints to be displayed at the HAC. We estimate that this will be in the region of £20 for printed artwork on A2 foamex board. We would aim to curate and exhibit 50 images at the HAC.
The overal funding required is therefore £1000.
Once the exhibition at the HAC has finished the art work will be available to be exhibited at other venues across North Ayrshire.
Vennel Gardens Entertainment Committee
2024-09-20 • No comments • • Irvine
We would like to apply for funding to enable us to provide a Christmas Lunch and Party, and fund a bus trip to a local shopping centre.
Christmas Lunch and Party £450
Bus Hire £550
The Canny Crafters Group
2024-09-18 • No comments • • Official position 1 • Irvine
The Canny Crafters Group is a local sewing and craft group open to all, offering support in crochet, sewing and the art of repurposing old materials into new, creative projects. Based at the Redburn Centre, the group works in partnership with the friends f redburn community group and has been active for around a year. What began with just 4 members has grown to a ful group of 12 participants and two dedicated volunteers. Together htey have created a variety of handmade items, including Christmas wreaths, hand knitted goods and crochet crats and they plan to hot stalls at local events selling their handmade goods to help sustain the group and ensure its continued success.
The group fosters creativity and skill deelopment while offering a warm, commujnity focused atmosphere and for the members attending it has many benefits, including learning new skills, making new friends, and promoting mental well being. It provides a creative outlet, cost free access and a supportive environment where the members can recieve guidance on personal or group projects, enhancing a sense of belonging.
The group would like to apply for the cost of tickets to be able to attend 2 Creative Craft shows at the SECC to see differnt types of crafting and get ide4as for thier own group and also to buy resources such as wool and fbric for future projects.
Breakdown of Costs
Creative Craft Show Tickets March 2025 x 14 £168
Creative Craft Show Tickets Xmas 2025 x 14 £168
Resources such as wool, fabric, patterns etc £350
Total 686
Irvine Horticultural Society - Marymass Flower Show
2024-09-20 • No comments • • Admin • Irvine
The Marymass Flower Show, including the garden and community garden competitions, is held yearly in the Irvine Volunteer Rooms to promote the showing of horticulturally arts and crafts exhibits.
The funding will help us cover the costs associated with the flower show which are increasing every year, this includes hall lets, insurance, judges’ fees and awards. To make the follower show more accessible, we will also be running some talks and demonstrations giving an introduction to horticulture, with a view to getting more people involved with the flower show. The flower show itself is a well-attended event that helps build community spirit with those who take part and have a shared interest.
If we are successful in getting the funding, we hope that the flower show and surrounding interest creates a better knowledge of the natural environment and how to protect it. Growing flowers, having a knowledge of invasive species and community growing initiatives are at the heart of what the horticultural society does, and the funding will help increase public awareness of this.
Hall lets - £500
Insurance £90
Medals for school members and school children - £75
Teas for judges, queens Marys and chaperones - £140
Payment to speakers i.e Talks to all age groups RE. horticulture - £200
TOTAL - £1000
Vennel Friends Discovery Group
2024-09-10 • No comments • • Official position 1 • Irvine
All our group members take part in volunteering opportunities throughout the local community and help foster community spirit. Most of the group have now completed the bronze level of the award and are now working towards their silver award.
Through the Hobbies and Interests aspect of the award participants are encouraged to engage in and develop new skills, hobbies and to remain socially active. This social activity helps to reduce social isolation and improves the physical and mental wellbeing of participants. We would like to apply for support to help us provide opportunities for our group to experience a series of new and exciting workshop activities that would contribute to lifelong learning and promote positive wellbeing. These workshops would meet the needs and interests of group members and include arts and crafts, mindfulness and meditation, relaxation techniques, outdoor learning activities and other wellbeing tools.
Honey Bee Cottage Wellbeing Workshops @ £160 per session x 6 sessions = £1000