Balance and Bliss CIC: Enhancing Community Wellbeing

We are applying for £1000 to raise awareness of how holistic therapies can improve mental health and wellbeing, particularly for vulnerable groups. Our goal is to break barriers to accessing support and foster a supportive community.

Funding Breakdown:

• Hall Hire - £250: To provide a welcoming space for our sessions.
• Drinks and Snacks - £150: To nurture conversation and connection during sessions.
• Resources/Crafts - £600: For materials needed in our activities and therapies.

Mini Taster Treatments: To introduce therapies like reflexology, Reiki, EFT, and sound baths.

Our holistic, trauma-informed approach includes therapies such as reflexology, Reiki, EFT, sound healing, and more. We aim to improve physical and mental wellbeing, address social isolation, and promote healthy lifestyles. By focusing on vulnerable groups, we build confidence, skills, and resilience, fostering positive personal and community change. We believe that a community that supports each other thrives.

This funding will help us provide 10 sessions/groups, ensuring each is well-supported with a welcoming space, refreshments to foster conversation, and necessary materials for activities and therapies. This will enable us to improve mental health and wellbeing, particularly for vulnerable groups, and bring the community together.

our prodject is primarilly to help pupils learn new skills and develop leadership skills before they leave school and have oppertunitys to work with other pupils as a team.

 this is to spread the cost between materials,manudfacturing process and also products. this money is also to help with future events takeing place and to fund our community project where we build benches and mud kitches for schools,busisnesses and also a big one we completed in the last year is going round all the care homes in the three towns and donating ,flower pots , benches , memorial benches ect. we also plan do used recycled materials and waste from other projects to help the enviroment. We hope you consider our proposal thank you, ACE ( admin,enterprise,craft).

Juice Cups – 35 for 30 

Keyrings - 9.71 for 30 

Permanent Vinyl – 26.90 for pack of 50 

Heat press vinyl – 29.99 for 33 sheets 

Vinyl cutter tools – 8.99  could do with at least 3-4 of these

Small Heat press - 25.95  possibly 2

Tote bags - 8.98 for 10 

Pencil/makeup bags - 12.86 for 10 

Christmas baubles 30 for 9.99 

Lanyards - 11.99 for 8 possibly 30 of those

Heat press mat – 8.99 

Water bottles - 54.34 for 20 

plastic sheets - (tilgear) 100x500     £ 23.75 each  - 

tshirt press - 

hoodies

We are a Brownie unit located in Ardrossan, welcoming girls from Ardrossan, Saltcoats, and Stevenston. Brownies open doors to a world of exciting opportunities, challenges, and fun. During our weekly meetings, the girls gather with friends to explore new hobbies, unleash their creativity, develop new skills, and embark on outdoor adventures. Alongside these activities, they can earn interest badges in areas they’re passionate about. Our programme features six key themes—Know Myself, Express Myself, Be Well, Have Adventures, Take Action, and Skills For My Future—allowing girls to engage in a diverse range of challenges and learn about various topics.

We would like to spend grant money we recieve on an outing for the girls that would be free of charge for them, 

Outing £300

Badges/ Badge books/ Resources £250 

Craft/ cooking supplies £200

We plan to run over 26 Personal Safety training sessions in schools and youth groups across the Three Town area. The training will cover a diverse range of personal safety topics that affect young people's mental health. We will show young people how to avoid and, if necessary, defend themselves against bullies and abusers; how young children can escape from an abduction; how teenagers can identify date rape drugs, spiking and bogus taxi drivers; and we will teach young people self defence skills against a variety of attack scenarios including headlocks, strangulation, knife attacks, back attacks and ground attacks (including defence against sexual assaults for teenage girls, if required).

The empowering effects of our training have been known to save lives - both in defending themselves against potentially lethal attacks and steering young people away from taking their own lives.

For children/youths who are suffering from trauma after being severely attacked by bullies, we will also offer 30 x individual trauma-informed, empowerment-focussed Personal Safety training which includes emotional support to help them recover from their ordeal. 

In total, we aim to train / help over 500 children and youths.

A breakdown of our costs are as follows;

20 x Personal Safety sessions in Auchenharvie Academy £400

30 x individual trauma-informed, empowerment-focussed Personal Safety sessions for children/youths traumatised by bullying/abuse. £600

2 x Personal Safety sessions in Ardrossan Academy            £40

4 x Personal Safety sessions for Three Town youth groups £160

Transport, lunch and refreshment costs £100

Total cost of this project is £1,300 however our charity will pay £300 towards these costs.

The Ardrossan Youth Association is managed by young people, looking to provide support, tackle isolation and promote positive mental health. This has been acheived in the past by providing trips with Ocean youth trust, attending youth festivals and through multiple groups and activities. The association also run different groups like Art group, Youth groups, Duke of Edinburgh, Cooking activities, and hold weekly committee and planning meetings.

The association is looking to start cooking classes which will look at how to cook on a budget. They are looking for funding to purchase an oven as the one they have at present is broke.

They are also looking to purchase food and and drink for the family fun day next year. along with other activities happening inside and outside the centre, there will be a barbeque.

The association is looking to purchase stationary to help with committee meetings and planning.

Lastly, the association is looking to purchase a new Karaoke system. this is due to the high demand in the centre from all young people.

Costs

HOOVER HOC3858IN Electric Pyrolytic Oven - Stainless Steel & Black from Curries                                                                        £269.00

Cushions, Throw over, Rug for chill out room B & M                                                                                                                             £  70.00

LED Lighting from B & Q                                                                                                                                                                       £  50.00

Stationary form Amazon                                                                                                                                                                        £ 115.00

Mr Entertainer Digibox Pro. Portable Touch Screen Karaoke Machine and Media Player (4 x Wireless Microphones) from Amazon £477.00

Food and drink for family fun day                                                                                                                                                          £120.00

The association will pay the excess for food.

As a group that has representation across most of our secondary schools we have consulted with other young people to ask them about their pupil councils and youth voice groups.  Through doing this it was clear there was no consistency or a minimum standard of what they do or the support they get to ensure that young peoples voices are heard across the school community.  We feel as a group there needs to be guidance to support school staff and the young people.  It shouldn’t come down to what school you go to determine how involved you are allowed to be in decisions that affect you. 

We would use this money to bring together groups of young people to support us in writing a Pupil Council Toolkit and Charter that schools would sign up for.  This would involve around 50 young people from across North Ayrshire.  This would make sure schools have a minimum standard for their pupil councils in schools.  With young peoples rights now part of Scots Law, it is more important than ever that Article 12 (young people having a voice and having platforms to use it) is put into action across our local authority.

By bringing these young people together we would write, design and create a Pupil Council Toolkit that would launch in partnership with schools, to support running effective pupil councils.  The Toolkit would have information, guidelines and templates for these groups to run effectively and allow young people a ‘seat at the table’ to influence decisions that affect them.

The event will take place at Ardeer community centre. 

Costs

Catering Costs – Snacks and refreshments for the day - £250

Money towards graphic artist – Working with a graphic artist who will sketch in real time, simple graphics of the groupsdiscussions as they happen. We can watch the visuals unfold and get to see the big picture develop as the conversation grows giving us actionable results from the event. £920

The remainder of the event costs would be covered from a small pot of funding we have secured for the Pupil Council Toolkit.

52nd Ayrshire operates from St Mary's Church Hall, our three sections run each week on a Tuesday and Thursday Most of our children and young people are resident in Saltcoats with a few who travel from Stevenston and Ardrossan.

We provide indoor and outdoor activities for children and young people aged 6yrs - 25 yrs. We provide activities that support health and well-being and that build confidence independence and self-esteem. We strive to provide activities that are fun , exciting and that will create memories that will last forever. Our young people are decision makers and they are involved in the design, planning and implementation of programmes and activities

The North Ayrshire and Arran District organise a District camp every two years for all young people (both male and female) who attend Scouting organisations. Young people range in ages from 6yrs up to 25yr. 

The next camp will take place in June 2025 from a Friday afternoon to late Sunday afternoon.

During this time, young people will participate in indoor and outdoor activities with others from across the District. Some young people will camp outdoors while others will stay inside in dormitories or hobbit huts.

Over the weekend, they will take part in a variety of activities, the vast majority being outdoors, whatever the weather! In the past, activities have included:

Archery

Orienteering/geocaching

Crafts

Backwoods cooking

Den building

Late night Hike and Camp Fire

Kayaking

Low ropes/high ropes

Rafting

During camp we will provide everyone with all of their meals, as well as snacks including fruit and hot and cold drinks through the day.

Encourage participation from a greater number of young people within the Three Towns by having Open Events/Try Bowls Events - £300

Provide expenses to the young people of the Club who compete in Championship Events - £400

Continue with our Breakfast Project, providing food/drinks at Saturday morning training sessions - £300