The Iris Arts will develop a community room that people living locally can call their own. Aligning with local priorities, Adult and Family Learning, Youth Work, Financial Inclusion and Community Development, we can develop a space adjoining our Community studio where people living locally can meet, share and learn. This will provide a space for our Youth Volunteers to meet, learn and create, families to engage in creative learning classes and older people to learn and feel less isolated.

Friends of Dundonald Castle SCIO are applying for project funding to deliver much-needed evening clubs and activities for our community. We have been consistently approached by members of our community to increase our extensive daytime offer of clubs and groups into the evenings. This will allow us to increase the demographic spread of our Community Hub users and visitors, improving accessibility for all those with daytime commitments with 3 new evening groups.

Maybole Juniors FC seeks funding for a new lining machine to replace our unreliable, outdated model. Accurate pitch markings are vital for safe play, fair competition, and sustaining participation across all age groups. This project supports inclusion by providing high-quality facilities for boys, girls, and community players. A modern machine will save volunteer time, reduce costs, and ensure our grounds remain fit for purpose.

People With Parkinson's (PWP) are often overwhealmed by the condition to the extent that they do not admit even to people close to them that they have the symptoms. They do not go out or exercise and their symptoms deteriorate rapidly. It has been proven through studies in the USA, Japan and the UK that table tennis not only provides vital exercise for PWP it also stimulates the brain to make new pathways in the brain. Causing a tangible slowing down of the condition.

Open Shed

Our project focuses on supporting volunteers by providing access to high-quality training and meaningful work experience at our Forest School and Outdoor Learning Centre. Through this initiative, we aim to create pathways into employability and volunteering opportunities while reducing poverty by ensuring accessibility for all—particularly those who are disengaged from mainstream education, or otherwise excluded, disabled, school-leavers and job-seekers etc.

1. Vics In The Community has adopted the key community wealth building values by ensuring we adopt fair work principles including paying the real living wage. 2. Vics are also committed to employing and creating volunteering and training opportunities for local people. 3. All our building and capital works have been carried out by local contractors . 4. Our pavilion serves the full community including young people, adults and families. 5. All our income is reinvested in to Vics.