Creative Connections is a group of people who attend Day Opportunities who have decided that they would like to create a small social enterprise. The group would like to be given the opportunity to create art and craft products, and see their creations come to life. The group will be run by and for people who have learning disabilities, physical impairments, mental wellbeing, and people who have neurodiversity. Creative Connections will give people the chance to experience work opportunities.

Lat year we got £1000 from PB, which we used to run a Hot Hub twice a week from January - April. We were very successful and our community used us for the hot roll, hot soup or hot drink. Many people struggle with their mental health and unemployment, and we know this isn't getting any better, so by doing this we can look after parents so that they can feed their children. We also helped people with their bills, money and job searching.

We are currently looking to apply for PB to help restore our polytunnel and raised beds due to wear n tear with the weather over the years . The garden is used to supply local community and Choices food larder for free with the produce that they grow. this is attended by both the young and elderly(intergenerational) and is now also extended to recovery groups to have that piece of mind pottering about in an open space and benefiting their mindset.

We are community centre in Ardrossan and from January we are working with Ardeer to open their cafe. At Whitlees we run a free breakfast club between 8 and 9 am, which is very popular. We would love to try this as a pilot scheme at Ardeer as part of the cafe project to see if it works as Ardeer sits between 2 primary schools. Whitlees have £4060 funding from Bright Start for our own club so hopefully next year they would also fund this project after a pilot.

Millport Table Tennis Club a satellite club of North Ayrshire Table Tennis Club was successful in being awarded a grant for new tables for Millport from the ARIA fund. The funding is in place for capital equipment only but our project is to seek funding to purchase new equipment. The quote for this is attached below.