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Dalry Katsumishi Karate Club
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
The Dalry Katsumushi Karate Club is a non-profit making Karate club where proceeds are put back into the club itself for the benefit and training of its students with instructors giving their time freely to teach Karate. We are looking for funding for new equipment such as kick pads and mats. Along with helping with Hall rent and providing hoodies or T-shirts for our members.
We are applying for £1,000
Estimated breakdown would be:
- Equipment (mats, kick pads, etc) - £500
- Hall Rent- £250
- Clothing (Hoodies, Tshirts + printing) - £250
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Garnock Valley community concert band
2024-09-13 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Garnock valley community concert band ( GVCCB Charity number SCO43326)) is a striving and inclusive community band- continuing to grow and reconnect musicians throughout the garnock valley.
GVCCB gives public performances throughout the community such as St Margarets church in Dalry in which included a local choir, string ensemble and the children’s choirs from local schools. GVCCB also perform at the Scottish and the National concert band festivals each year ( SCBF and NCBF), being highly successful in both – lifting platinum awards each year.
This is only accomplishable with a hard working committee, fundraising throughout the year and funding made available to us.
We keep our subscriptions as low as feasibly possible, to encourage as many players wishing to return to music.
For many, music is a vital (sometimes - only) social interaction available for them – helping their mental wellness, mental agility through reading music and actively encouraging them to interact with like minded people.
We hire local practice space within the Garnock valley community campus once a week, maintain a musical library ( costing approx £1000-£1500 per year) to keep our concerts and competition performances fresh, challenging and interesting, and hire our musical director at £3500 per annum
We should like to put ourselves forward for the full amount possible (£1000)to go towards the cost of our musical library .
Considering the output for so many, we can make this money go a very long way.
Light up our Toon - Kilbirnie
2024-09-12 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
KTCMI is a voluntary community group comprising of local residents, businesses, and representatives from various organisations in Kilbirnie. We organise and fund our annual Christmas Lights Switch On which takes place on the last Saturday in November. This event is open to all members of the community and enjoyed by all ages.
Our Christmas Lights Switch On has been a tradition for many years, bringing festive joy and cheer to our town and the people and visitors passing through. The day starts with Santa and his grotto, culminating at the Cross with the big switch on of the Christmas lights. This event is possible thanks to constant community fund-raising activities by KTCMI throughout the year. The Christmas lights themselves are owned by KTCMI, however North Ayrshire Council (NAC) have previously erected, tested and stored the lights from the Council budget. Sadly, this is not the case for 2024 as budget constraints within NAC have resulted in this vital funding being unavailable. NAC has agreed to carry out all of the above actions to ensure the lights are safe and in place for our Switch On, but this is going to result in an additional cost of £7,000 for KTCMI on top of the ongoing running costs for example electricty charges, santa gifts etc.
We are seeking additional funding for the following:
Santa presents for the children £450
Cost towards of hiring a hall for Santa's grotto £300
Cost towards upgrading the grotto by means of new decorations, art work, lights etc. £350
KTCMI are determined that our Toon will be lit up this Christmas and we are seeking help in raising the desired amount - our toon is arranging numerous fundraising events and hopefully these events will contribute towards the cost of the Christmas light switch on.
Christmas dinner at Cafe Solace Kilbirnie
2024-08-28 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Cafe Solace Kilbirnie provides low cost meals each Friday at lunchtime and in the evening to the community. These are very popular with between 30-40 customers at lunchtime and 70-80 in the evening. Children under 12 or anyone in need eat free. For some of our customers, we are the only friendly people they will speak to in a week, and it may be the only home cooked meal that they have. At Christmas we like to make even more special, in particular for those customers who have no family to share the festivities with, and our chef and volunteers prepare a lovely three course traditional Christmas feast and arrange a visit from Santa to present wee gift bags for each of our customers (held over two weeks due to numbers - up to 170). We do make a nominal charge for the Christmas events, but to avoid hardship to those customers who are struggling financially we heavily subsidise these from our own funds (and children still eat free). We have been fortunate in receiving support from other areas in previous years to assist with costs and reduce the impact on our funds. This year, the volunteer team are carrying out some fundraising to pay for the small gifts that we will give our customers (sponsored walk, guess the teddy's birthday etc). Based on last year's costs (£1,677.39), and the continued increase in food prices, we estimate that we will need to subside the events by around £8-900 from our funds. Our food costs over the past months have been higher than predicted, due to the unsuitability of much of the food that we are receiving from Fareshare and we are anticipating heavier than normal expenditure in the early part of 2025 as we start to plant out our new vegetable garden. To enable us to meet our ongoing commitments and still provide a festive treat out for our customers, we are requesting funding of £500 to be put towards the purchase of food required for our Christmas meals (approx £2.94 per potential attendee).

Kilbirnie & Glengarnock Community Council
2024-09-11 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Following the reduction in Streetscene's budget, there are a number of maintenance issues that need to be addressed by the community. This application will give us a budget to arrange these works in conjunction with other local groups. A few months ago, the Dalry Community Development Hub organised responsibility for maintaining planters in Dalry with various local groups. They received funding and were able to purchase plants, both annual and perennial, from Gateside nursery. We would like to do something similar in Kilbirnie. Whilst Dalry had only 9 planters to arrange, there are more areas in Kilbirnie needing work:
9x planters in car park beside Salvation Army
5x planters outside old folks houses in Main Street at the Cross
5x planters between BBQ Hut and Easties on Bridge Street
1x flowerbed at foot of the path outside Kilbirnie Library
1x flowerbed at the top of Bank Street / Glasgow Street
As well as these flowerbeds, other works needing done includes weeding along kerbs and property boundaries on pavement side; clearing vegetation from public paths, such as the Cat's Lane
Bridgend Cancer Support Group
2024-09-20 • No comments • • Official position 1 • Garnock Valley
We would like to take the members on a day out to the threatre, also provide transport and have a meal after the show. Based on twelve members: Threatre Tickets approx - £480, Meal £240, Transport-minibus £200.

PLACE WOODLANDS KILBIRNIE
2024-09-03 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Our group is so unique. We have people from all walks of life, retired folks, people who suffer from mental health issues, veterans, young teens from povierty who we mentor and try and use nature to distract them from the issue they have, people with addiction issues. We have other groups come and use our woodlands to teach about nature. Scouts and restbite office staff. Lots and lots of folks
We have been doing lots of projects to help with climate change and habit restoration and creation. Aspin tree planting, fruit tree planting, tree maintenance and control of invasive species, wild flower planting. Water course maintenance. So much going on I could go on and on.
The funding we need is mostly PPE funding. We desperately need safety equipment like gloves, waterproofs, safety wellingtons, safety glasses, highviz tops, safety helmets with viziers, ear defenders,
Pricing from Amazon as an estimated price of these things.
Hi Viz tops = £6.49 each x14
Safety helmets with viziers = £23.99 each X2
Ear defenders = £13.99 each x 4
Safety wellingtons sizes from 7 to 11 = £22.39 to £23.39 each x9
Safety gloves = £8.99 pack of twelve
Safety gloves anti thorn = £9.99 each x4
Waterproof top and bottoms varise sizes = £19.99 each x15
Safety glasses pack of 12 = £14.99
We have also thought about our circumstances in the winter. We currently don't have a proper place to keep warm and boil the kettle. A small stove was our thoughts as it would provide heat to dry off and heat a kettle. We also make a pot of stew in the winter to help warm all the volunteers. Cooking has been a bit difficult but a little log stove would improve that immensely.
Stove to cook on = £117.95
Total for all above is £998.97
Please consider us for this funding. It would be a massive help to our group and the community.
Kilbirnie and Glengarnock Community Association
2024-09-11 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Our Commuinty Larder was set up to offer a top up shop which would help alleviate food insecurity as we moved out of lockdown. We have found since that there is a growing number of members who use our service as a main shop not a top-up due to the increased cost of living. Our proposal is for Kilbirnie and Glengarnock Community Association to purchase fresh meat packs from a local butcher and provide them to our larder members either free or at a vastly reduced rate as the cost of buying them themselves may be prohibitively expensice therefore lots of our members will not be getting the proper nutrition in their diet which ultimately long term affects their health and wellbeing. On average we have about 50 weekly members and it would be great for them to be able to have access to fresh, locally sourced meat which they may not get otherwise. We are asking for £1000 which would allow us to purchase 50 x £20 meat packs which would include a variety of meat that could be utilised on a number of meals for people on a low income.

Cunninghame Choir
2024-09-09 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Our Sunshine on Beith (Summer 2025) will have a weather theme, and we will be presenting Ola Gjeilo's inspirational Sunrise Mass, for choir and strings. We would like this grant to fund the purchase of choral sheet music, and contribute to the cost of professional musicians.
Sunrise Mass cost: £400
Sunshine on Leith (Proclaimers) choral music arrangement: £100
Professional Soloists £250 each = £500

Friends of Lochshore Park
2024-09-11 • No comments • • Garnock Valley
Our group provides a crucial role in reducing social isolation by providing a friendly welcome to those who enjoy physical exercise in an outdoor environment. We attract members from Kilbirnie, Beith and as far afield as Saltcoats. We are proud of our contribution to the regeneration of the park which is located on the site of the Glengarnock Iron and Steel Works, remnants of which can be seen to this day. Our weekly workdays are opportunities for volunteers who share a love of the outdoors to connect with one another and strengthen community bonds; tasks have included planting trees, coppicing, creating paths and wildlife projects.
Lochshore Park is a newly created country park with a 5-kilometre tarred and hard-core path, designed for eventual use as a Saturday morning park run venue. Our current project is to create a woodland trail through our “Enchanted Forest”. To attract greater numbers to the park we would like to make this a magical experience for younger children with models and sculptures en route to a woodland glade with tree stump seats.
Over the winter months we intend to build bird and bat boxes and craft willow sculptures. This will require the services of a willow weaving artist. These activities will be open to the public with anything created by them free to be taken away.
We have secured funding to build a habitat for ground nesting bees, which will be a labour-intensive exercise. However, many of the other projects we would like to tackle require expertise which none of us possess. If awarded a Proportional Budgeting grant we would like to buy in support and training for our members.
Estimated Costs
Creation of Enchanted Forest £197
Timber for bird boxes £236
Free Public Classes £325
Advertising £240