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Cumbrae Young Curlers
2025-09-18 • No comments • • North Coast
Young people on Cumbrae have urged Millport Curling Club to help give them the chance to try curling through test sessions at a mainland ice rink. It’s difficult for young islanders to participate in the sport as they need to travel off the island and it's expensive. Millport Curling club members and Cumbrae Primary School teachers will host the session with professional coaches at Greenacres ice rink. We're applying for funding for the bus, ferry and coaching for a group of thirteen 10-12 year-olds (P6&7) to have a go and be inspired to take up curling. The project will improve health and well-being by being active, trying something different and playing together in teams. The funding will mean everyone who wants to take part can do so, even families who are affected by the Cost of Living crisis.
The cost breakdown is:
Bus: £350
Ferry: £50
Venue fees (Ice/coaching): £250
Total: £650
West Kilbride Yuletide Activities
2025-09-09 • No comments • • Official position 1 • North Coast
Christmas movie night (hire of mobile cinema and movie, performance licence, hire of venue, refreshments) - £350
Storytelling Session in WK Library (purchase of Mrs Claus costume, purchase of selection boxes, refreshments) - £150
Arts & Crafts Materials - £100
Facepainting & Balloon Modelling - £260
Prizes for Competitions - £100
Skelmorlie Youth Group
2025-09-17 • 1 comment • • North Coast
Our group has resources but are very old and in need of being replaced. The young people engaged well in consultation and have each given their ideas to what we should buy to help their youth group to stay active and engaging.
Amy "all of the stuff is getting a bit old and its starting to break" - "I love coming each week to see my friends and play games"
Harrison "we want to play more sports and build on our team work skills"
Mairi "young people deserve a chance to play, exercise and hang out with their friends with good resources"
Aleigh "to keep the youth group interesting and not repetative"
Erin "I love coming to youth group to hang with my friends and have fun"
resources they young people have requested (photo attached below) are: priced from amazon
Tenpin Bowling £200
Slime making equipment £50
Cooking and baking ingredients and equipment £60
A speaker to play music £40
Bopits £40 x 2 - £80
Art materials and pens £80
Dodgeballs £30
Board games £100
footballs for the summer £22 x 2 £44
xbox games £100
playstation games £100
pogoballs £14 x 4 - £56
spiragraph £13 x 2 - £26
etch-a-sketch £24 x 2 - £48
rounders equipment £10.99
volley ball and net £38.97
switch games £80
The Media Studio : Workshops
2025-09-18 • No comments • • North Coast
The Media Studio is a creative hub for young people, offering workshops in film-making, animation, and social media. Our mission is to support young people to develop digital skills, creativity, and confidence that will help them in education, future employment, and personal development. Through our workshops, participants learn practical, hands-on skills while exploring storytelling, teamwork, and self-expression in a safe and supportive environment.
Currently, the Media Studio does not have any laptops, which severely limits the workshops we can run. Many of the activities we want to offer — such as video editing, animation projects, and social media content creation — rely on up-to-date digital technology. Without access to laptops, young people are unable to engage fully with these opportunities, and we are unable to deliver the sessions we know could have a meaningful impact on their skills and confidence.
We are applying for £1,000 to purchase three modern laptops These laptops will provide the capability needed to run workshops efficiently and effectively. With reliable equipment, young people will be able to learn video editing, create animations, design digital content, and develop social media projects — skills that are increasingly relevant in today’s digital world. The laptops will also allow us to explore collaborative projects, where participants work in small groups to produce creative work, building teamwork and communication skills alongside technical ability.
Breakdown of Costs
Three laptops Lenovo IdeaPad 1 | 15 inch Full HD Laptop | AMD Ryzen 5 7520U | 16GB RAM | 512GB SSD | Windows 11 Home in S monde | Cloud Grey at £329 each: £987
Largs Cluster Young Ambassadors Sports Equipment
2025-09-21 • No comments • • North Coast
Our project will provide new sports equipment for school teams, giving students the chance to train and compete with their own high-quality balls and equipment. Right now, the netball, basketball, football and rugby teams have to share worn or unsuitable PE equipment, which can make practicing and playing matches frustrating. By giving each team their own sets of competition-quality balls, exclusive for club uses, pupils will be able to play safely, build confidence, and enjoy the sport even more. This will benefit not only the students taking part in extracurricular sports but also the wider school community and set a model of representation as more young people are encouraged to join clubs, get active, and be part of something positive. Families and the wider community will also see children taking part in healthy, teamwork-focused activities. The costing for this project would be:
Football
Fusion FIFA Basic Training Football's (10 Pack) £80.00 x2, precision double action ball pump £6.00 x2
Netball
Gilbert training bibs £60.99 x2, Rhino Airborne Netball bundle (15 pack) £180
Volleyball
Kipsta volleyball classic - blue (single) £7.99 x25, Mitre mesh ball sack £21 x2
Basketball
Molten Basketball 12 Panel Rubber (Indoor & Outdoor) £21.46 x15,
Total comes to £997.68
Largs Colts 2013
2025-09-19 • No comments • • North Coast
We started up our team with a small group of kids and a few parent volunteers who agreed to become novice football coaches.
Since then, our team has expanded in popularity and we now have a small army of 21 boys and girls who train twice a week and play games in the local Ayrshire Youth Football League at weekends. Our team promotes health, wellbeing and fitness for all players- they practice hard and this gives them the chance to lead healthy and active lives, encourage friendships and alleviate social isolation.
Our team is ably assisted by a band of volunteer parents who help out in all weathers whether coaching, providing transport to games, setting up equipment, cheering loudly, chasing balls, administering first aid, manning a coffee and tea stall at games, or anything else required!
As with many such local groups, funding is always a significant issue. We have always tried to keep the fees for parents as low as possible and we have been grateful so far to have the support of some kind local business owners who have helped out with the costs of match-day and training kits as well as equipment such as footballs. We have had to increase our fees for parents recently due to increases in our costs.
A large part of the income from fees is spent on training and match day facilities as well as replacing balls etc. which doesn’t leave much extra to spend on gear for the kids.
We are hoping to get funding to cover the cost of waterproof duffel bags for all of our players to transport their jackets, boots and gear to training and games. The west coast of Scotland isn’t known for being the most forgiving places for wet weather especially in winter. At the moment, players' gear is kept at the side of the pitch and can get muddy and wet in the rain.
The ideal bag we have identified is the Nike Academy Team Duffel Bag (black/red), which is durable and good quality. We would be looking to get 21 large sizes @ £29.99 (£629.79). With added player initials and team badge stitching, the total cost will be £761.
Any help you were able to offer with this would be hugely appreciated by all of the kids and our volunteers.
Active Largs Girls - Empowering young girls and their futures
2025-09-19 • No comments • • North Coast
Through a mix of fun, supportive, and adventurous extra curricular activities – like climbing, ice skating, swimming, and water sports – we want to help these girls find their strengths, try new things, and build friendships along the way. The Largs Girls are senior pupils, who will act as mentors and role models to the selectd s1 pupils. By having senior pupils working as mentors it will give the younger girls that extra encouragement to step out of their comfort zone and believe in themselves. It is needed because many girls lose interest in sport during their early teens and some don’t even feel confident enough to join in, low self-esteem can affect not just health and wellbeing but also life and friendships, attending Extra curricular clubs and community clubs can be a daunting situation by having this opportunity we hope to break down this boundary. We want to change this by creating a safe, welcoming programme where they can try things, have fun, and feel good about themselves. To do this we will run a programme of exciting, confidence-building activities that the girls wouldn’t normally get the chance to try, such as: climbing, ice skating, swimmming and water sports. This will allow the girls to learn new skills such as: tackling challenges, trusting each other, laughing, falling, and getting back up again! discovering the thrill of kayaking, paddleboarding, and being outdoors. Alongside these activities, senior pupils will act as mentors, offering encouragement, sharing their own experiences, and helping the younger girls feel supported. We’ll also run short reflection sessions so the girls can celebrate their progress and recognise how much they’ve achieved. We would also love to provide a box that would sit in PE with deoderant, sanitary products, wipes, makeup remover, hair bobbles and anything else that may be needed. This would promote girls to participate and maybe even try harder in PE as they know after the can use the deoderant provided or wipe off any ruined makeup from being out in the rain. We hope this allows the girls to feel more confident in themselves, both in sport and everyday life, be more active and involved in school and community activities, build new friendships and peer support networks, see sport as something fun, enjoyable, and “for them”. For us we want to develop our own leadership and communication skills, help the younger girls succeed and gain confidence, we also hope to give something back. Having the mentoring model system means this can become a cycle: today’s S1s could become tomorrow’s mentors, we’ll connect the girls with local sports clubs and extra curricular so they have places to continue being active after the programme, staff will also be able to build on the learning to keep confidence and activity levels high in future years.