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DALRY BURNS CLUB
2024-01-03 • 1 comment • • Arts & Culture
In 2025, again we will be supporting the Arts and Cultural whereever possible,Within our club, the members are very generous by donating each year, funds to help in this endeavor..Allready we have gifted £200 to the Dalry Station Garden Group to provide bedding and new plants and shrubs into large steel planters we previously gifted to the station platforms to assist with the cultural needs of the community.
Again in 2025 our club will once again be promoting the works of Robert Burns, within the local primary schools. All the children ( P! to P7 ) and parents alike, look forward to participating in the the singing and recitation competitions, organised by the Club and with the assistance of the schools teachers,The winner in each class all receiving Amazon gift vouchers and certificates for all particpants.and moreover the Club then supports parents and children, going on to travel to Ayr, where the all Ayrshire iFinals take place. We pay for and organise tranport.
We estimate this year the costs will be £1500 for this particular venture. We are asking £400. The cost breakdown is as follows
1) DALRY PRIMARY SCHOOL Scheduled Feb 2025 £200 will be spent on medals and prizes for the children
2) ST.PALLADIUS PRIMARY SCHOOL Proposed in early March 2025 £200 will be spent on medals and prizes for the children
The Club will provide the funds, by holding a raffle at our main meeting, which is our annual Burns Supper.Any shortfall we propose to cover from our general fund.

Betsy Miller Awareness Pop-Up Event
2023-12-27 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
SeaSalt Streets intend to use the events to highlight awareness of Betsy Miller, Britain's 1st Female Sea Captain. born in Saltcoats.
The project will be presented in two formats and will be run on two separate days.
(A) A pop-up exhibition / workshop, using the gazebo purchased with our successful PB award. The gallery will contain information and photographs of Betsy Miller and her life. It is hoped to include a video presentation to enhance the experience.
(B) A short talking / guided tour, starting in Quay Street, Saltcoats, the place of Betsy's birth with display plaque. The walk will then proceed to Canal Place to the pier gates where the waggonway led to Saltcoats harbour. From there, the tour will head to Saltcoats Harbour itself and the Harbourmasters' House and a meeting with "Betsy Miller" herself. The short tour will conclude at The Heritage Centre graveyard where Betsy Miller is buried.
Breakdown of costs
Tour guide - 2 days @ £75.00 per day = £150
Betsy Lookalike - 2 days @ £60.00 per day = £120
Advertising and promotional material = £100
This project is intended to break down barriers with people who might not normally engage with history, culture or the arts, and try to ensure their future involvement. Our target audience will be anyone visiting, working or passing through Saltcoats Town Centre at the duration of the events. Anagram quizes and colouring in sheets will encourage intergenerational working between children, parents/carers and grandparents. All participation is at no cost.

Events Arran community group present the Arran Rock n Blues Festival 2024
2023-12-17 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
Unlike the previous three festivals we are going to Lochranza this year. The primary reason for this is the need for accommodation. We are working in collaboration with the Lochranza outdoor centre, the hotel, campsite and youth hostel to ensure we can host our visitors. We believe the commercial input to all of these businesses will help them survive as in recent years they have struggled. We are giving opportunities for young people to play at the festival and particularly encouraging original Scottish artists. We are also hoping for a small acoustic stage for local musicians too. We have a large following of blues fans from previous festivals and are well know by the Blues music press. We wish the £400 to help support the cost of hiring the hall to allow us to give the artists the best possible experience. We will also run a market similar to ones on the Green in Lamlash and at Santa’s Sparkles. We have a market license. Our biggest cost is paying for band accommodation & fees. Our provisional costings are shown on the attached document and we need to raise money to ensure we can cover our costs.
Arts and Crafts Family After School Club
2024-01-15 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
Family Arts and Crafts Session
To be run over a minimum of 4 weeks.
There will be no cost for the rental of school due to the time of the sessions 3.15-4.15
local artist Pauline Tremble is available to help facilitate this at a cost of £45 per week total cost £180
Week 1 - face painting session we will provide each attending family a facepaint starter kit £100. We think this will be a fun activity for families which they can then enjoy at home also.
Week 2 - balloon art session again we will provide the balloons. This can help families cut costs of parties and home activities. Balloons £40
Week 3 - canvas painting session our local artist will teach various painting techniques to our families and help them create picture they can take home. What they learn will hopefully encourage them to do more art at home. We will provide canvases and paint for the activity. Canvases £39 paint £30
week 4 - clay modelling session our local artist will teach various techniques for our families to create their own clay model to take home. Clay £40
all these free sessions will help us to cut the cost of the families school day by providing free activities while promoting arts crafts and culture in our local community. We hope that we may even have our local community centre display some of the artwork.

Everyone an Artist
2024-01-12 • 5 comments • • Arts & Culture
Last year, Everyone an Artist allowed a group of adults from across North Ayrshire to take part in a free six week art workshop where we used clay, learned how to cut and print lino blocks, and drawing techniques. Alongside the practical skills they gained, this opportunity offered the artists to build upon their self confidence, boosted their mental wellbeing and allowed them to meet new people. We would like to run this workshop again this year, but offer new techniques to learn with more materials. The project will run from the North Ayrshire Foodbank's new space on Glasgow Street, for six weeks (once a week) at evening time, to allow people time to come in from work.
proposed project breakdown: Lead artist - £168 hall rent and materials - £232

Largs Music Club
2024-01-12 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
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 regular attendee 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

Garnock Valley community concert band
2024-01-07 • 1 comment • • Arts & Culture
We are looking to further strengthen the band .
By purchasing banners to promote the band at fundraising events. This will give the band a better presence , and encourage musicians from the area to come forward .
Ecoprint banners. Budget banners with a bases
We are in need of new music stands, and music to add to our library. The band is now of a high standard , but easier , more welcoming pieces are necessary in our library to invite less experienced players, or players returning after a long break We would also like to purchase some music to highlight the abilities of the sections within the band
orchestral music stands @ £22 each
stand bag @ £6 each
Scores from £50
Money would be spent as follows
Promotional goods £110
Replacement stands £150
Music £140

Irvine and Dreghorn Brass
2024-01-05 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
Irvine and Dreghorn Brass provides opportunities for young people in our community to learn music, play in a group and perform at competitions and concerts. Playing and experiencing music has major health and well-being benefits for participants and audiences alike.
We provide free music lessons and access to brass and percussion instruments for young people to learn. There is a learning pathway and once young people learn the basics of playing they can join our youth band. The youth band has members from various schools in North Ayrshire including Dreghorn, Glebe, Ardeer, and Springside Primaries, Greenwood Academy, Irvine Royal and St. Matthews.
We perform at 5 - 6 concerts each year, also competitions, festivals and some school events. Young people can also play with our other bands at community events e.g. Marymass parades.
Our request is for £400 to be spent as follows.
Musical instruments - £350. Sheet music £50
Project supports health and well-being
Most of the funding would be spent on instruments that enable more people to play. Learner cornets and trombones cost between £150-200 per instrument. Demand for our services is growing and our membership has growing significantly in the past 2 years.
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North Ayrshire children's sculpture competition
2024-01-15 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
This funding would be put towards our North Ayrshire sculpture competition which we host annually. This competition is free to enter and is aimed at young artists and schoolchildren across North Ayrshire, who are asked to create unique sculptures from recycled and natural materials based on the brief which changes each year. In previous years our themes have been "Our natural heritage; coasts and waters" and "Climate change; what it means to us" and we plan for this year's theme to be "From seeds to trees" to raise awareness on how to plant and grow our own foods and improve the greenery in our local community. To engage the schools and artists we will provide a prize for the winning entry, which is typically a paid-for day out provided by Beith Trust, which will be voted for by the general public via QR codes throughout the summer. To get people to vote and visit the sculpture trail, we will be hosting various free events over the summer for children and families to attend. The funding would be used to purchase materials to allow the events to be free to attend, ensuring families of all income levels can attend. These workshops would be two crafting workshops, one making clay plant pots to grow plants in and another to make bird feeders from old bottles and recycled materials. Another workshop we'd like to run would be led by a local artist and we would ask them to host a workshop teaching the children how to use nature to make art (leaf printing, flower dying, daisy chains, etc). Finally, we would like to host a stall at our National Playday event, which we run every year around our sculpture trail, allowing attendees to create their own seed bombs to take home and plant in their gardens.
Our sculpture trail has consistently gathered numerous visitors throughout the years that we have run it, with National Playday being our biggest success with over 750 attendees last year. We would love to make these events as green as possible and use our space to teach the children how to have fun outdoors and away from screens. With a captive audience, we would like to teach green techniques and invite groups such as RSPB Lochwinnoch and Hessil Head to come along and host their own fun, nature-based stalls or activities. A breakdown on how we would use the funding is below.
Workshop materials:
10KG Air dry children's clay: £40
Variety of plant seeds: £35
Compost: £20
Materials to make recycled birdfeeders: £30 (Sticks, string, bird seeds, paints)
Materials for seed bombs: £30 (Flour, compost, water, plant seeds)
Wood-based materials for sign and box crafting: £45
Nursery plants from Gateside Garden Center: £50
Marketing and tutors:
Tutor fees: £100
Marketing materials: £50
Total: £400

St. Matthew's Parent Council - Intergenerational Photography Exhibition
2024-01-06 • No comments • • Arts & Culture
In order to develop this project, the Parent Council aims to assist the Art Department with provision of cameras. Existing photography equipment is in short supply within the school, so in order to ensure that each pupil has access to a high quality, specialist camera, we aim to purchase two bridge cameras. This will allow pupils to develop and demonstrate skills in photography beyond that of a mobile phone camera.
The cost of an entry level bridge camera is around £200. We would like to ask for funding to purchase two, costing £400 in total.
The exhibtion costs will be minimal, as it will take place on screen within the school and the Parent Council meeting any additional expenses such as refreshments.