Radio Adverts - £500

Flyers - £250

Subline heat transfers with logo for handmade products - £150

Online/paper Adverts - £250

Pop Up Banner -£150

Logos for car - vinal transfers-£200

We will use local businesses to provide our marketing materials such as Three Towns Radio & Ardrossan Printers and Ardrossan Herald

Kilwinning Community Shed (the Shed) was established just over a year ago with the purpose of bringing the community (our members) together in a space where they can collectively or separately interact and discuss what's important to them; whether it's work, family, hobbies, or skills, they can learn to be creative by participating in a variety of crafts and activities. More importantly, reducing solical isolation and being part of the wider community is key to our ethos which is aligned to the Scottish Men's Shed Association of which we are a member. Belonging to our community group gives people purpose and a sense of belonging because the 'Shed' is collectively the people, not the building.

Since it was established we've been housed in a temporary accommodation while we await the decision of the asset transfer in December. When awarded a permanent home we understand the responsibilities that come with it relating to legislative requirements and compliance. We must ensure the building is safe for our members and we meet all requirements for both compliance and regulations. This funding application is to help us meet the costs for surveys and reports relating to health & safety, fire risk assessments, electric and gas equipment and services as well as the overarching assessment of the intended function of the internal space and the external land space.

We estimate the spend to be as follows:

Site survey for fire risk assessment - £500

Site survey for extinguishers and signage - £250/day

Fire warden training - £60/person (minimum 4 persons)

Health & Safety Assessment - £500/day

Pre assessment survey and advice - £500

In the past year we have experienced membership growth and wider engagement with the local community, e.g. we work closely with Choose Kilwinning and will be actively involved in creating and building the Christmas trees for the town centre as part of Choose Kilwinning's sustainability plan. Our male to female ratio is 1:3 and we have an active membership who regularly attend our twice weekly meetings which we anticipate to increase in a permanent home. Our members benefit from a space to come together and be creative, or simply to be with people and chat. Our activities include but are not limited to woodworking in our workshop and a variety of crafting activities such as sewing, pottery, crochet, knitting, paper crafting and model railway building.  Essentially we are a member led organisation, a self funded charity which generates a lot of interest in Kilwinning, and while perhaps some people may not feel they are ready to join us right now, we want to create a community that will be here and ready for people of all ages in their future, young or old, from all walks of life, with or without a skill they just haven't discovered yet.

Agreement from application review: as the group are currently undergoing the CAT process, and the funds would cover work to be completed if they take on the asset being applied for, funding (if the group are successful at the public vote) would only be released once the asset transfer has been completed. If this has not been concluded by the end of the 2025/26 financial year, the funding will be offered to the project with the next highest number of votes. 

The Arran Pioneer Project CIC supports a network of established community gardens and growers across the Isle of Arran. This funding will establish a seed library, and provide specialist skills training that builds long-term capacity across the island for current and future growers.

Specific Costs We're Applying For:

• Specialist workshop delivery (fruit tree grafting, beekeeping, scything, natural construction): £1,000
• Equipment for seed storage and seed library (including cabinet with drawers and compartments to organise seed packets): £500
• Scythes for gardens (total 4 sets from specialist supplier Scythe Cymru): £500
• Total: £2,000

Who Will Benefit: Our network includes community members across several gardens, with wider community interest for specialist skills. The skills training will benefit experienced growers and newcomers alike, whilst also building capacity for future projects including woodland crofting. The seed library will serve the entire island's growing community by organising and distributing both purchased seeds (including our current seed stock) and saved heritage varieties.

Why This Deserves Funding: This project demonstrates all three Community Wealth Building themes:

Community Ownership: Our model empowers communities to control local food production and distribution, keeping wealth circulating locally rather than flowing to off-island retailers.

Enterprising Communities: The seed library creates sustainable growing systems - managing both purchased and saved seeds reduces ongoing costs for all gardens whilst varieties can be shared across the network. Skills training builds capacity for future enterprises including our proposed woodland crofting initiatives.

Local Innovation: We're creating a replicable model of skills-sharing and resource management. The seed library and coordinated training programme demonstrates how rural communities can build resilience through knowledge transfer and collaborative infrastructure that supports the entire island's growing community.

Over 5 years, we've worked with our communities to transform disused land into productive spaces that island residents can use to grow their own food. This funding enables us to build skills and systems that make our growing spaces more productive and self-sufficient.

The project builds on proven success - we've previously received support from participatory budgeting and delivered measurable outcomes including increased food security, community connection, and environmental benefits.

Ripple Effect Saltcoats (RES) are currently undergoing the Community Asset Transfer of Melbourne Toilets and Community Asset Lease of Melbourne Public Park. Phase 1 of RES's plan is to renovate and reopen the public toilets. In order to make the project financially viable and sustainable in the long term, Ripple Effect will reinstate one of the former 18 hole putting greens and intend to introduce 2 or 3 Target Bowls rinks. Further plans include a fixed, giant chess and draughts board and possibly a concrete table tennis table (there was one there in the 1980's). 

Not only will these additional outdoor activities compliment the work already done by S.A.L.T at the new Pirate Playpark, and the proposed development by SPLASH and the outdoor pool, they will serve as a revenue stream which will feed into the funds necessary for the polonged upkeep of the toilets and park. 

The container will house the putters, balls, flags for the putting, bowls for the target bowls, chess sets, draughts sets and table tennis equipment. Initially, the 'office' will be manned by volunteeers who will rent out the equipment, however it is Ripple Effect's intention to create employment in the future.

If successful, Ripple Effect would continue to stick to its unwritten rule of buying 'local'. We have sourced a suitable container from Rhino Containers in Glengarnock, a reputable company who came highly recommended by another community group with whom we work in parthership, SeaSalt Streets. 

The container offered by Rhino Containers is priced at £1375.00 plus VAT @ £271.40 plus delivery cost of £155.00 plus vat @ £31.00, plus 2 x Magmaus Shipping Container padlocks (£29.99 each) £59.98.     TOTAL = £1892.38

The surplus of the requested amount will be used to purchase used tables, cahirs and cupboards to house the equipment.

Dalry Public Park has great potential to be developed into an area that can help provide various facilities and eventsthat were enjoyed by previous generations, which we have seen eroded over the years. The Sports Pavilion provides an excellent base for which a lot of these can be facilitated from, where the instalation of these lights, extending this even further. Recent years have seen Dalry Community Sports Club, and in partnership with others, facilitate a number of events and activities here, including, Parklives, Party in the Park, Skirt the Skeith, Menshed, Sheshed, Dr Bike, School Sports Day, Puppy Training, Craft Event, Kids Football, Orienteering, King's Coronation, Queen's Jubilee. We recently seen the installation of 10 solar lights in the park, which lights the footpath from the carpark to the pavilion, which DCSC secured funding for, where we would now see this being complemented by the old floodlights being brought back into use, which overall gives us a facility that can be better accessed over the winter period / dark nights, with opportunities to use both the inside and outside areas of the pavilion for activities and events. We have seen the benefits that this has offered the community of Dalry and the surrounding areas to date, and are kean to continue to build on this.

Permissions : as part of our solar lighting of the park project, Gary Wilson ( Manager ( Lighting & Municipalisation ) / Roads - Engineering Services), gave Dalry Community S[ports Club consent to use our own contractors to bring the floodlights back into operation as appropriate.

Estimated cost - see attached quote for breakback of costs

This year we running a Christmas pantomime fundrasier for the running of the festival, this is open for all of the community at a reduced rate. For 2026 we'd like to offer showings at a even more of a reduced rate. This year the cost of tickets are £10 per person where normally the tickets are £16. Next year we'd like to have the opportunity to greatly reduce the cost of the tickets for school children. We'd like a friday showing for schools to make it acessible for lower income families. Ticket will be at the reduced cost of £3. We will be running other days which will be open to the public which will generate an income. The income we make will be reinvested back into the festival planning and organisation of the festival celebrations for the year ahead.

Pantomime Booking (Geeza a Break Productions ) - £1800

One off hall hire  (Volunteer Rooms) - £200

At Cròileagan Siorrachd Àir a Tuath (North Ayrshire Gaelic Baby & Toddler Group) we aim to provide the opportunity for children (6 months to 4 years), their parents and carers to learn the Gaelic language, through talking, songs and games in a relaxed and welcoming environment. 

Latha Buidhe Bealltainn is celebrated on May 1, the halfway mark between the Spring Equinox and Summer Solstice, it is a time of renewal and growth, a celebration to welcome the coming summer months.

At a time when music lessons are being lost in due to budgeting constraints in education we would like to not only celebrate one of the major cultural events in the Gaelic calendar but also offer taster "have a go" sessions for traditional Gaelic instruments; bodhran, clarsach, fiddle, pipes, and song. We would like to use this as a test of the market place to see if there is a demand to learn to play traditional instruments, lessons which could be facilitated by our group. A survey will be sent out post event to follow up and gauge success of the event and inform our next steps. We will finish the afternoon inviting attendees, tutors and volunteers to perform at a ceilidh

We would like to provide this opportunity for our families to learn and get a chance to be involved in cultural traditions; most of our families don’t currently have a lot of experience or access to this culture.

Our hope is to inspire people to adopt culture and traditions. We believe exposing the children to live music at a young age will encourage them to get involved, and will help the families to provide the supportive environment that will help the children to succeed.

Our core audience is children that have not yet started school and their families. We will make sure they have chance to perform, with material we prepare at our regular toddler sessions. If capacity allows, we would also like to extend an invitation to neighbouring district East Ayrshire and include primary school children from the local Gaelic primary unit in Kilwinning, as well as the wider community. Therefore the event will be ticketed to maintain an element of control on numbers, by using an online tool such as Eventbright, for example.

For our youngest participants we believe this project will inspire them and their families to get into music. We wish to spread cultural traditions and give people access to these in an area where it can be difficult to find, particularly ones that are suitable for very young children. We believe spreading knowledge of traditions keeps them alive. For primary-aged participants we believe the performance opportunity at the ceilidh will be motivation for them to practice something and it will enhance their confidence to play/sing/etc. for an audience. This could be a stepping stone to them participating on a bigger stage at other events or putting themselves forward for competitions. For all participants we hope this may inspire them to get music and other performance into their life. If we could inspire a family to create a supportive musical environment in their own home or add a tradition to their calendar we would be extremely happy.  

Costs to include

• Venue hire £120

• Tutor fees £600

• Refreshments £150

• Admin materials (posters, signage, info leaflets) £150