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Eligible applications: Three Towns

Total budget £29,288

Our Wellbeing Matters - Mayfield Primary House Captains

Our Wellbeing Matters - Mayfield Parent Council and Mayfield House Captains

2024-09-20  •  No comments  •  roccobaxter2014@gmail.com  •  Three Towns

Vision of Project - Create a Wellbeing Corner and Volunteer Programme of Activities at Lunch time and Afterschool. 

We are House Captains of Mayfiled Primary School.  We applied to be house captains to lead and support children and young people, to listen to children's views, to work with teachers to help with learning and to encourage volunteering in and outside our school.  As school captains, monitors and buddy's we would like the funding to help us grow as leaders.  - (House Captain Application and video link to see our ideas)

Project 1 - Volunteer Programme to support Lunch Time and Afterschool Activities (Theme - Health & Wellbeing, Building Community Spirit and Cost of Living).

Our school does not have any lunch time or afterschool clubs.  We want to lead on lunch time and afterschool activities and with the help of our teachers and parent council who can help by volunteering their time and help us bring in funding for resources.  We would like money from PB to purchase 2 new adjustable basketball stands so the big and wee ones can play.  We asked our houses what we needed and went a walk around our school playground.  We only have 1 basketball net and its older than Mr Faulds so the JANNIE SAID.  We did our research and found these for 249.99 each and we need 2.

Project 2 - Our Wellbeing Corner (Theme - Health & Wellbeing, Community Spirit, Cost of Living and Green Projects)

Part of our walk around we noticed that there is not anywhere for young people to sit together outdoors.  We would like to turn a corner of our playground into a wellbeing corner.  We would like money for picnic benches and planters.  We called a local men's shed.  They said if we got the PB money they would make them for us and would only charge us for the wood - We thought this was an absolute BARGAIN!!! The space we looked at you can see the fields behind us and the cows - we thought this area would make the ideal spot.  We as Mayfields House Captains want to introduce FUN, FRIENDLY FRIDAYS where pupils will give at least 1 comliment to someone during our lunch time activity.  We would also like to use the space when we are volunteering as buddy's and mentors as this is an ideal space to put our planters and we can help the wee people grow vegetable and their confidence.  This space would allow us as House Captains to develop our leadership skills using a space that is not used and hopefully recruit more wellbeing wizzards as part of our fun and friendly Friday's.

Basketball Stands 249.99 x 2 = 499.98

3 x Picnic Benches 2 x Planters = 580

Total = 1039.98 (We planning on fundraising for the rest if successful)

 

£1,000
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Clear Sound Microphone Bid

2024-09-19  •  1 comment  •  Livingstone Players  •  Three Towns

The Pantomime with Livingstone Players has really grown this year and we have doubled the number of young people involved since we reopened after Covid shutdown. The microphones will ensure that actors and singers are heard by everyone in the audience. We have the technology to control the feedback and audio interference but ideally the more microphones we have the less are shared and it avoids errors that can happen when one is shared with a few people as may have different functions for each user which puts stress on sound team so ideally we need more so that we can be as professional as possible. 

We have added another performance to offering so 6 shows this year rather than 5 so equipment used more and we want to be the first choice of Pantomime for local people.

Microphones are called Sennheiser XSW 2-ME2 GB Band lapel set at £333 including VAT. We want to have 3

£999

Saltcoats Christmas Carnival

2024-09-04  •  No comments  •  lainey.mckinlay  •  Three Towns

The Saltcoats Christmas Carnival was started many years ago to provide Christmas lights in Saltcoats – this evolved over the years and has become a full carnival.  This provides a much needed free day out for families in the local community, when everything else related to Christmas is so expensive this event gives some relief from that.  The day includes, entertainment all through the town with a staged area with local and up and coming artists performing, including dance schools and primary schools, we will have 3 santas grottos including an ASN grotto (and disco) that will be fully accessible, activities in Saltcoats Town Hall, Santa abseiling from the clock tower and a large fairground. There will also be a mobile cinema street entertainers and a few other surprises!

Main costs:

Fairground £8k

Independent H&S £800

Donations to local groups for support/assisting on day £500

First Aid: £330

Santas Grotto set up, selection boxes and books = £1500

Entertainement  - Starlite (staging, PA,) £500

Road Closures, licences, & venue (town hall)  £1500

Mobile cinema £200

Abseiling Santa/street entertainment £500

Miscellaneous £1000

Marketing and advertising materials for the event donated by Clyde studios

 

 

 

 

 

The event is planned and organised by a small group of volunteers who have skills and experience in different areas.  External professionals are brought in for things like Health and Safety, Insurance etc.

 

On the day we have many groups that help including; ATC, Sea Cadets, Guiding, Scouts, and NAC community officers. 

A £1000 donation would help make this event magical and give families memories that will last a long time.  In the age we are living in people are struggling more and an event like this not only gives experience and fun but takes some pressure off of parents and caregivers.

£1,000
Grapevine Theatre CIC working with young people

Performance in 3 days with Ardeer Primary School

2024-09-20  •  No comments  •  Grapevine Theatre CIC  •  Three Towns

This project will consist of three days of workshops with fifty 9–11-year-olds from Ardeer Primary School. The project will be in connection with the 'Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival', exploring the festival's theme of 'In/Visible' using Shaun Tan's beautiful picture book, 'The Red Tree'. The process will begin by using drama activities to explore these themes, then will delve into drama skills and confidence building, which will set the young people up to create a performance that will be shared with the rest of the school and wider community of parents, carers and guardians. This project will focus on the process to get to the performance, putting the young people’s learning and development in the forefront of the work. The project will allow young people to explore mental health themes, ensuring they are relevant for their ages, for example, friendships and belonging. We aim to engage the wider school community by getting other classes to help with prop making, so they can feel connected to the performance even if they aren’t onstage themselves. This prop making will use origami to create paper boats to be used within the performance; a motif from 'The Red Tree'.  The young people will then be asked to write on their boat what tools they use to 'stay above water'- what do they do to ensure they are maintaining their wellbeing? Drama is a brilliant tool to build community spirit, as each performer can present something they are proud of and share it with their audience of supporters who will come out of the event with a shared experience that can bring them together. This is why it is so important we bring this unique project to the Ardeer community.

Cost Breakdown

2 Theatre Facilitators delivery and planning:  £780

Travel: £100

Workshop materials: £40

Performance materials: £80

Total: £1,000

For a breakdown of the materials needed please see the attached document.

£1,000

The Saltcoats Men's Group

2024-09-12  •  No comments  •  john1976  •  Three Towns

The group is about being supportive and encouraging to each other.  Building camaraderie and helping participants to reconnect with others and themselves.

  • Reducing loneliness and isolation
  • Reducing low mood and depression
  • Increasing a sense of purpose, community and belonging
  • Increasing a sense of routine, structure and self-worth  
  • Promoting health and wellbeing - time together and a safe and trusting space to open up to peers 
  • Providing peer support for mental health - checking in with each other - "anyone struggling today?"

The funding we're applying for would be spent as follows:

  • Cost of weekly room hire for a year (£350)
  • Cost of weekly refreshments/food provision per group – teas, coffees, juice and fruit
  • Cost of additional monthly or quarterly healthy activities and travel out with the community centre (e.g archery, bowling)
  • Cost of promoting the group and recruiting more group participants - to reach more men in the community who have poor mental health
£750
Free homemade meals

Food & Heat

2024-09-12  •  No comments  •  Whitlees centre  •  Three Towns

If we were to be sussessful with the funding the money would help us offer the community the free meal & hot drink 3 times per week so they are able to come along sit in the heat get a hot meal and a wee chat with friends or just to see some friendly faces in the cafe. We would love to offer this throughtout the day from morning to later afternoon as we know people have different circumstances in life and may not be able to get out early and also we want to encourage parents to come in before the school pick up as we know with the cost of living parents may skip a meal and this way they have had something warm to eat before heading home. Also we encourage anyone coming along to the cafe to charge any devices they may have including mobility scooters to try help them save some of their own electricity. We are here to help with any calls that may need to be made regarding any home issues they have, for exmaple if they have any issues with gas or electric and they are unsure how to call for help or advise. 

Cost for running over 3 days per week for 12 weeks

Food cost per week £120

£100 per week for hot drinks

 

£1,000
Hug In A Mug

Ardrossan Indoor Bowls Community Hub (AIBCH)

2024-09-11  •  No comments  •  Ardrossan Indoor Bowling Club  •  Three Towns

Expansion of the facilities of the Community Corner - £200

Provision of hot beverages, soup, sandwiches and biscuits- £800

£1,000
Saltcoats High Flats

High Flats Afternoon Club

2024-09-11  •  No comments  •  High Flats Afternoon Club  •  Three Towns

We would like to apply for funding to take the residents of Saltcoats High Flats on trips and outings throughout the year. As an older community of people with a range of mobility needs, many of us live by ourselves. We can go days without talking to people. The High Flats Afternoon Club brings us together with the common theme of living in the same buidling. 

We would like to be able to book some trips and days out but due to many different mobility needs, such as walking frames, sticks etc, we need accessible transport. Transport is very expensive and if we were to get £800, we could use a varierty of taxis, minibus or small bus hires to take us on some days out. 

£500 for transport costs

£300 for entrance fees, food and drink etc.

£800
Community Hub of Hope

Community Hub of Hope

2024-08-26  •  No comments  •  Amy Nolan  •  Three Towns

At our get togethers every second Sunday we do crafts along with providing refreshments for everyone who attends and this is free of charge. We also have a planned activity for everyone to take part in if they wish too, these range from mini pamper treatments, to meditation and even a starter class in hypnosis.  we are looking to get some funding to help towards the events that we have planned for the rest of this year these are taking families to pantomime, hold Christmas/Halloween/Family nights with games, food n movies, stocking up our food bank, buying Christmas gifts for families or offering a respite day for parents who need it and all this without the financial burden.

£1,000
1st Ardrossan (St Peters) Rainbows

1st Ardrossan (St Peter’s) Rainbows

2024-09-11  •  No comments  •  maggieagnew  •  Three Towns

We are a rainbows group that has 22 girls and 11 on our waiting list. We would love to take the girls to the cinema to see Moana 2. We would also like to buy them badges and supplies to continue delivering the Girlguiding programme  

the cinema is £6 per child £132

badges required 22x4=88 88badgesx £2 each =£176

resources =£300

£608