Youth Work: Provides safe, youth focused wellbeing tools that boost confidence, reduce anxiety and encourage peer sharing. Adult & Family Learning: Teaches self-help skills journaling, mindfulness techniques and creative expression. Community Development: Builds connections between young carers and local mental-health partners through resource referrals.

The Ayr Ark was established in 2002 to provide a solution to the growing problem of underage drinking and anti-social behaviour among the young people of South Ayrshire. Our aim is to provide a safe space for the children and young people (aged between 11 and 18) and to fill their visits with fun and exciting activities both indoor and outdoor. We would also looking to set up our own football team to strengthen team work and the feel of unity in the kids who visit us.

Installing a built-in storage cupboard will improve our community space and facility by maximising the hall’s usable space by keeping equipment safely stored and reducing clutter, making the environment safer and more flexible for a wide range of community uses. This will also support community development. Beneficiaries will include all our current and future community groups. Volunteers and organisers will also benefit from easier setup and reduced workload.

Our playground projects will benefit all of our pupils and the wider community with socialising and health and well being to enhance our school which is the heart of the community. This would also be a great piece of equipment for our SEN pupils.

This is a community-led project to create and then manage a stunning artwork in a disused railway tunnel on an active-travel path at Alloway. To date we have involved over 2,000 local people mainly from schools and colleges but also involving the older generation to create the artwork under the guidance of a professional muralist. We believe involving so many of our local communities will provide a sense of ownership and help safeguard the artwork created.

The club is looking to develop the sport of Pickleball within Prestwick Indoor Tennis Centre as well as providing additional equipment to support our disability tennis programme.

The funding received will directly support the creation of a pop-up museum within the Broadway’s foyer, to preserve the collective memories of cinema-going in South Ayrshire and become the first indoor museum experience in Prestwick in living memory.

We would love to bring back the wonderful Light Up Loans event in the village. by providing an event that will benefit the whole community by bringing everyone of all ages together This will benefit the whole community, everyone of all ages can participate.