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New Horizons
2025-09-08 • No comments • • Coastal Communities Fund 2024/25
We are seeking funding to establish a Hospital Support Group at Ayr Hospital, providing vital support for patients recovering from addiction, many of whom have also been involved in the criminal justice system. Recovery does not stop at the hospital doors, and without the right interventions, people are often discharged into the same circumstances that contributed to their difficulties. This leads to relapse, homelessness, or reoffending, creating further strain on health and justice services.
The Hospital Support Group acts as a bridge between acute medical care and long-term community recovery. Led by a recovery practitioner and trained volunteers with lived experience, it offers trauma-informed support in a safe and structured environment. Here, individuals can begin to build trust, develop healthy coping strategies, connect with peer networks, and engage with recovery pathways including treatment, housing, employment, and education.
Funding will allow us to meet the essential needs of people leaving hospital at their most vulnerable stage. This includes emergency food and clothing, transport to access vital services, digital support to stay connected, and household essentials that provide a stable base. These are not luxuries, but lifelines. By
Carrick Men's Group
2025-09-11 • No comments • • Coastal Communities Fund 2024/25
Funding will enable the group to access monthly trips throughout the year, ensuring that these are accessible to all by paying for the use of a mini bus from SACT to transport the group
Dundonald Community Hub Evening Groups Project
2025-09-10 • No comments • • Coastal Communities Fund 2024/25
Following extensive community consultation, we plan to deliver three evening groups at Dundonald Castle Hub: a Silent Book Club, Dundonald Historical & Archive Group, and a Creative Writing Group. Funding will be used towards staffing and utilities to help our charity open the Hub in the evenings, and to ensure the ongoing sustainability of these groups. This will support us in providing free, accessible activities for people of all ages with daytime commitments (carer, parental and employment amongst others), while tackling loneliness and social isolation over the autumn and winter months in our rural area.
Senior Primary Schools (P7) Careers Fair
2025-09-01 • No comments • • Coastal Communities Fund 2024/25
P7 pupils from 9 schools, prioritising those with a catchment area serving the most deprived and poorest areas of Ayr, will be transported to Ayr town Hall where representatives of between 30 and 35 widely different careers have been invited for the day. The reps have been selected as they are known to be enthusiastic about the work they do, are great communicators, and in the majority of cases, have asked to return after previously been involved in the Project over the last 2 years.
The Career stalls are designed to be highly interactive and "Hands-0n"; we are not telling the pupils what grades they need and what college of course they need to aim for (this is done at Secondary school by careers teachers); we want to inspire them, encourage them to think beyond what they think they might end up doing when they leave school. We believe this will motivate them as they start secondary school in a few months after the event.All the Careers reps give up a day, all in their own time, some self employed. Rotarians are on hand to help the teachers supervise the children on the day.
Funding is used for Hire of the Venue (Ayr Town Hall - £250), Hire of the buses to transport the pupils (£850), and a light sandwich lunch and refreshments for the 60 to 70 Careers Reps who will be attending (£300 which Rotary will Fund)