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Eligible applications: North Coast

Total budget £17,621

Tai -chi

Tai -Chi

2023-09-02  •  No comments  •  largsdementiafriendly@gmail.com  •  North Coast

This is a continuation of an activity that we have been running since August 2022 following a successful bid to Last years NAC Participatory Fund.  costs are 

£30 per half hour session with Instructor 

£25 for Room Hire 

£0 for  advertising via social media & DFL website

 

 

£1,000

West Kilbride Community Council

2023-09-04  •  No comments  •  WKCC  •  North Coast

We simply need a lap top to zoom for council meetings ensuring those who can't attend in person are not losing the opportunity to participate 

the cost of the required lap top is £950

£950
Largs Museum

Digitisation of Collections

2023-09-09  •  17 comments  •  Largs Museum  •  North Coast

Our postcard collection was digitised last winter using private facilities. The remaining collections should be digitised inhouse.   This will be an opporunity for our current and new members/volunteers to come together over the winter months while the museum is closed to the general public.   This project will be a major contribution to ensuring that our heritage is safely recorded for future generations. To make this possible we would kindly ask for funding towards: 

Viisan S21 A2 Overhead Scanner £335 Epson FastFoto FF-680W Scanner £440 Brother MFC-J5345DW Scanner/copier £160 Toshiba 2TB Canvio Basics Portable External Hard Drive £50

 

£985
Proposed site layout

Largs Green Futures

2023-09-17  •  No comments  •  LGF  •  North Coast

To get the project off the ground and be gardening for all during year one of the growing season, raised beds are a solution agreed on by the committee.

Corrugated planters 320cm x 80cm x 44cm at a cost of £179.99 each

 6 planters = £1079.94

We have raised funds elsewhere which will take care of the shortfall

£1,000
Cumbrae Community Garden

Improving accessibility within Cumbrae Community Garden

2023-09-10  •  No comments  •  Cumbrae  •  North Coast

We’re planning to pave round 4 raised beds in Cumbrae Community Garden to make access easier for people with restricted mobility, such as wheelchair/mobility scooter users or those needing walking aids. The Community Garden has a positive impact on health and well-being, not only for plot-holders but for the wider community who can access the peaceful outdoor environment of the Garden and take part in organised social events. This project will encourage more participation and improve community cohesion by improving access for people with a range of mobility needs and will help us promote community growing within a more vulnerable group.

The project costs exceed the PB grant limit but we have funding in place from the National Lottery which will meet the balance.

Costs:

Slabs £1300

Additional materials, delivery costs, labour: £1500

Total project cost £2800

Funding already in place: £1800

Funding requested from PB: £1000

£1,000
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Largs Music Club (LMC)

2023-09-05  •  7 comments  •  Tom Stewart  •  North Coast

I moved to Largs late 2022 and created Largs Music Club soon after in response to the interest I received since floating the idea on social media. 

LMC offers an informal setting for amateur musicians to meet on a regular basis and encourage and teach one another to improve their skill-level on their preferred musical instrument.

The club is growing in popularity since word is out that we existing members offer a friendly and relaxed environment for those keen to learn at their own pace without fear of judgement or impatience.  As membership is growing, so does the variety of instruments being learned and taught. 

The club relies on individuals contributing their time and equipment to teach fellow members how to play their preferred instrument. With funding, I would aim to purchase equipment to make that teaching more accessible - music stands, microphones, microphone stands, a Public Address system, amplifiers, mixing desk and some basic entry level instruments to encourage those who do not own an instrument (but who wish to learn one), to join us.  These items are expensive and realistically will require additional funding from me and some other willing members to supplement any money issued following this application. However, I am confident that your contribution will assist LMC continue to grow in membership and reputation and eventually lead to the club playing music for the community.       

The Public Address system is approximately £500. A couple of small amplifiers will cost an additional £500.   

Our club assists develop confidence as well as musical literacy, with participants being encouraged to play live for friends and family and in time, for larger audiences, once the club starts playing local live shows as per my vision. 

Feedback from participants so far evidence the mental health benefits of playing and learning in our community, a benefit I will highlight as I further promote our initiative in the community.  Our latest member told me that since moving to Largs very recently, she was delighted when, a chance encounter with a then stranger in the park led to her learning about our club. Nervous but curious, she came along with her new friend and has made many more new friends through our practice. That she is also getting better at playing her guitar, almost now seems like a bonus.

We at LMC are extremely grateful for your consideration.

Kind Regards

Tom

£1,000
Children reading in Skelmorlie Community Garden

Skelmorlie Community Garden Little Library

2023-09-11  •  1 comment  •  SCG2023  •  North Coast

The Skelmorlie Community Garden Group took over the running and maintenance of the space outside Skelmorlie Library from North Ayrshire Council in Spring of 2023. The local community have put a lot of work and love into making the space beautiful and relaxing, and would like to add a little lending library to further enhance the garden's aims to promote wellbeing, sustainability and community spirit.

We think that this speaks to the goals of this round of participatory budgeting; building community, looking after the environment (re-using books), cost of living and health and wellbeing. The garden has been set up to be a contemplative space and a little library would foster this.

We have spoken with the staff of Skelmorlie Library, who fully support the project.

We have spoken with the North Coast and Cumbraes Men's Shed who could build this for us for around £100. We have uploaded a picture to show you the type of little library we are intending to install.

 

£100

Skelmorlie Village Hub

2023-09-10  •  1 comment  •  Bill Spiers  •  North Coast

The Community Centre will be used to provide a drop-in facility. It will be a weekly come as you please drop-in for the community providing refreshment, social interaction in a club like environment. It is hoped to offer soup, bread, tea and coffee and biscuits. It is assumed that it will run for 15 weeks from December til March and operate for two hours a week. The likely cost to provide this service is estimated as follows: Soup/bread £45/week, tea/coffee £8/week and venue charge £28/week for 15 weeks total cost is £1215. It is estimated that approximately 30 people per week will attend. Should attendance be such that we consider a small charge per head to be reasonable then that will be used to offset expenses beyond any awarded funds.

£1,000

Clyde Coast & Cumbraes Mens Shed Growth

2023-09-07  •  4 comments  •  treasurer.cccmensshed  •  North Coast

We are looking for funding for Advertising roll up banners, Polo & T shirts with the Sheds Logo & Materials for the Boys to make Items for themselves or the Community.

  • Advertising Roll up banners 2 x £102 = £204 inc vat
  • Advertising T Shirts with Shed Logos 9 x £12 = £108 inc vat
  • Advertising Polo Shirts with Logos 9 x £14.40 = 129.60 inc vat
  • Wood Material from Local Builders Merchant £500
£941
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Community Roots- Social Horticulture for Experts and Dummies (SHED) Grow at Home

2023-09-18  •  No comments  •  Community Roots  •  North Coast

We are applying for £1000.

Rough guide costs per large container which will house a couple of Mini Munch cucumber plants, 2 tumbling tom tomato plants, or a courgette plant/2 kales/1 broccoli plant/mixed salad with radishes and spring onions, etc For a 35litre trug with compost and pearlite for £15 per filled pot

or 15litre pots/trugs with 1 tumbling tom tomato plant/1 mini-munch cucumber/several lettuces/1kale/ with compost and pearlite around £5 per filled pot

+Seaweed (organic) concentrate fertiliser filled from plastic drinks bottles that people can bring to us around £8 per filled pot

+Seeds between £1-3 per person (some are specialist varieties we have tried out this year to check for size, yield and taste)

Participants will be able to choose several plants and a start up kit that suits them and their gardens best. 

If the average take up was a 3 trug start-up per person then we estimate that we would have enough funds to secure £55 per household for 18 households. We anticipate people taking up a mixture of pots/trugs and some only taking 1 of either. We think around half of participants  will be Village Larder customers. 

£1,000