<p>Stevenston North Community Assocation would like to offer all residents the opportunity to come together as a community and celebrate the joy and fun of Christmas without the worry of expense.&nbsp;</p> <p>To achieve this we would like to offer a Christmas movie night with a meal prior to the film and snacks and drinks during the film.&nbsp;</p>

<p>3TFM broadcasts programmes to the 3 Towns and beyond, from its base at the Frank Sweeney building in Ardrossan.&nbsp; We would like to upgrade some of our studio equipment to enable us to interview guests live on air, and to prerecord interviews.&nbsp; This would enable us&nbsp;to expand on our&nbsp;health and wellbeing output by producing more programmes containing&nbsp;health and wellbeing features with advice and information from local experts, and stories from local people.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><span style="font-size:10pt"><span style="tab-stops:list 72.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,serif"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The Montgomery Court Entertaiment Committee have establised in June 2023 to support&nbsp;Residents and Community members with the opportunity to take part in weekly lunches&nbsp;and activities within Montgomery Court engagement hub.</span></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align:justify">We hope to gain more participants from the community and began hosting trips for our members.</p>

<p>Wee Mac Arran 2024 is a children&#39;s book festival.</p> <p>There is already a buzz of anticipation and excitement within&nbsp;our island community that some of&nbsp;Scotland&#39;s finest children&#39;s authors will be coming to the Isle of Arran.&nbsp;</p> <p>Travel to and from Book Festivals on the mainland is both cost and time prohibitive for many&nbsp;families on Arran.</p> <p>Bringing authors to the island&nbsp; for a festival breaks down social barriers with the joy of live literature accessible to all.</p> <p>Following on from our successful pilot in 2022, Wee Mac 2024 events will be hosted in the Garden Room and marquees in the grounds of the&nbsp;Isle of Arran Heritage Museum.&nbsp;</p> <p>The enclosed safe setting&nbsp;offers a relaxed and inviting environment for children and families. It provides&nbsp;a&nbsp;fabulous informal&nbsp;festival feel and&nbsp;free for all to enjoy.&nbsp;</p> <p>Having met and interacted with our invited guest authors, we hope&nbsp;our young people will be enthused to read for pleasure and encouraged about the possibility of becoming writers themselves.</p>

<p>Creating wellbeing cafes across North Ayrshire for people living iwth dementia and their unpaid carer to acess support and companionship.&nbsp;</p>

<p>To provide growing spaces around Largs for people who live and work in Largs to grow their own&nbsp;food&nbsp;in a community environment. The project has secured land in two locations in Largs which will be transformed into much wanted and needed community growing areas. We expect to have access to at least one of the large growing areas by the New Year so the land can be made ready for the next growing season. With this is mind we want to make the gardens accessible and usable spaces for all and are seeking funding for raised beds&nbsp;requiring little or no upkeep and maintenance by their users once in place. The project&#39;s main outcomes are hoped to include supporting families grow fruit and vegetables for themselves and using surpluses to support the wider community through the food bank, a community larder or other community groups in the current cost of living crisis and for the future.</p>

<p>We are a local community youth football team, seeking funding to help our team of 20 players continue with their enjoyment of playing football.</p>

<p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:#fdfdfd"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lato&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">The Vennel Friends Discovery Group meet weekly in the Vennel Gardens Community Engagement Hub and helps older people come together to meet new people and try a whole host of activities.&nbsp; </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:#fdfdfd"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lato&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">Our group is open to anyone over the age of 50. &nbsp;We participate in a wide range of activities that promote the health and wellbeing of our group members. The group provides a safe and welcoming place for older people to connect socially which helps to combat loneliness and isolation.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin-bottom:11px"><span style="font-size:11pt"><span style="background:#fdfdfd"><span style="line-height:normal"><span style="font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13.0pt"><span style="font-family:&quot;Lato&quot;,sans-serif"><span style="color:#222222">We are applying for funding to enable our group members to experience the positive mental health and social benefits of going to the theatre and having afternoon tea in Glasgow.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></p>