<p>Corsehill Retirement Club meet weekly throughout the year and help older people come together to enjoy many activities, including celebrating national events and holidays. We are a club which is open to anyone over 55 and retired from employment. We have educational activities, along with games and fun activities. This ensures that older people are not isolated, helping to combat loneliness and keeping them connected to their communities. One of the events particularly enjoyed by the members is celebrating Burns Day, with haggis, neeps and tatties, speeches and toasting the Bard with a dram, usually involving a piper and a wee dance. We are looking for funding to help us put this event on and try to have as many people as want to come. This funding would be used to pay for the meals, toasts, and venue. We also need a new laptop, which helps with the functioning of the club and allows our older members have access to the internet if required, keeping them connected with modern day living. We rely on our weekly fees to pay for events, etc so cannot manage to do many in the year. Additional funding will help to allow us to celebrate Burns Day.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Springside Community Association would like to hold 2 special events for all of the children in the community to enjoy, free of charge. One event will be a haunted mansion at Halloween and the other will be a Christmas party. We want to bring a sense of fun and excitement that everyone can be involved in, particularly at a time when the cost of living crisis is affecting everyone.&nbsp;</p>

<p>As part of our project to make the club inclusive to all a disabled toilet has been installed.&nbsp; To&nbsp;facilitate wheelchair access from the new annex to the toilet, the doorway requires widening and a new door put in.</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>

<p><meta charset="UTF-8" /></p> <p>&#39;Coffee Cadenzas&#39; is a community project with the aim to bring members of the community together through the joy of art and music.<br /> We are proposing an 8-week coffee concert series, starting on the 21st of October 2023 and ending on the 16th of December 2023.<br /> The concerts will be held in the main gallery of the Barony Centre, West Kilbride. This is an opportunity for audience members to connect with others, support local venues such as the Barony Centre and experience arts and culture in the local community. All concerts will be every Saturday from 10:15am - 12:15pm, commencing in October.</p> <p>What will it look like:<br /> Members of the public will have free access to the Barony Centre and will enjoy the immersive experience of sound and visual arts work harmoniously together. All whilst networking with other members of the community of all ages over a cup of coffee from the Barony Cafe.<br /> We want to break the restrictions of classical traditions and offer members of the public the choice of how they want to experience the event. This will be freedom of movement, providing areas where participants can talk, solely listen to the music or find a quiet corner to reflect.</p> <p>Supporting this project will allow members of the public to access arts and culture for free, breaking down the barriers often experienced for those accessing the arts. The overall project will offer health and wellbeing benefits to the communty, by providing a hub for socialisation and connection in the local area.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Dalry BurnsClub has been in existance for almost 200 years, starting in Dalry in 1825</p> <p>for&nbsp; many&nbsp;years we have been promoting not only, the works of Robert Burns&nbsp;The Scottish language, Scottish music, but the hertitage of the community. eg</p> <p>donating &pound;800 to Dalry Girls football team for new kit...&pound;200 to Dalry Action group for new Christmas Lights, We are well known in the town for sponsoring both Primary Schools in the town each year Annual schools&nbsp; Burns&nbsp; songs and recitation competitions ,&nbsp;&nbsp;as well as the Dalry Nursery School &pound;300 for new books</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p> <p>&nbsp;</p>