BABCA would like to organise a Country and western Social evening to try and get older people and adults back into the way of attending social events in Towerlands Community Centre.We would like to organise a free evening event to encourage people to socialise. People have got in to the way of staying in their houses during covid we would like to invite people in the local area to an evening of Country music with a live band. We woud like to turn the centre into the wild west providing an evening of live music with a theme. This community event would bring people together and help people who have been social isolated meet new friends.
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BABCA who are a group of volunteers elected to run the Towerlands community Centre with assistance from the local authority have run family events in the area which have been very sucessful. This year BABCA wish to encourage adults and older people back into the centre for a free social event in the evening. The committee want to hold a Saturday evening event turn the centre into the wild west. We had a monkey survey and Country music won over the sixties seventies and eighties. The event date would be the 24th of February 2024 the live country band would be Stateline a local band which usually packs out local venues in the Irvine locality. The committe wish to have a free chuck wagon giving away pies and beans or mushy peas. The bar would also be run by Towerlands Bowling club who are another local club run by volunteers who are situated next to the Centre. We want people through the doors in February as we are trying to organise a Community and memorial Garden situated next to the centre and wish the Country and western evening event to promote the garden project and see if we can get volunteers to assist in the garden which we are in the process of trying to secure funding for. BABCA want to grow fruit and vegetables in the garden for their Community food larder the Farm Basket. We will also do some fund raising on the night for the larder with raffles, cowboy bingo and a silver dollar so all the events feed into each other. The cost of our event is as follows
Stateline Country band £450 Pies Beans and peas paperplates knifes and forks tablecovers £200 Hall decoration Flags, bunting £150 hall let £94 tickets x100 flyers leaflets/posters £106
Location: Broomlands and Bourtreehill Community Association is a voluntary /charity organisation that concentrate their efforts on community development and seek to deliver the aims and objectives set down in their constitution which is related to social inclusion, community wealth building tacking physical and mental health inequalities
Proposed on behalf of: Broomlands and Bourtreehill Community Association
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