Skills for Outdoor Adventure and Resilience - SOAR Clubs
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Coastal Communities Fund 2026 - 2027
In relation to the identified priorities in the Guidance & Essential criteria what will your idea achieve and who will benefit from your project?
We are proposing to partner with a local outdoor play business called UnderSky, Adventure Carrick and Swim Safe Ayrshire which we have worked with many times before to deliver three unique opportunities to local children and families in the Ayr community. This Skills for Outdoor Adventure and Resilience (SOAR) project has multiple impacts relating to South Ayrshire Council priorities through community wellbeing, trauma support, high-quality recreation, lifelong learning, water safety, pride in place, celebration of local natural heritage plus helping connect families with nature and build climate literacy. There are three main focuses for this project: 1. Outdoor Play and Nature Connection for children: Building nature and climate literacy, active outdoor play and environmental awareness into the lives of children and young people 2. Outdoor Skills Training for adults: Building confidence in the outdoors, intergenerational play ideas and natural history skills into the lives of parents and carers. 3. Swim Safe delivery programme: Provide a structured RNLI water safety programme on Ayr beach with Swim Safe Ayrshire delivering a land and water-based safety programme. The Ayrshire RNLI water Safety team are constantly in demand to deliver water safety talks and presentations to local schools, youth groups, scouts and uniform groups. The Swim Safe Programme takes the next step of providing practical in the water guidance lessons and safety advice.
Please describe what you plan to do and what the money will be used for? (i.e., purchase equipment/resources)
Weekly after school sessions will be delivered for Skylark and Adventure clubs to encourage regular and sustained outdoor experiences and normalising outdoor play. Two focus group sessions will be delivered prior to the start of the older group’s club ensuring the content and format meets their specific interests. The club’s ethos would be further sustained through the valuable provision of encouraging parents/carers to continue to utilise the outdoors for play opportunities with their children. Over the years of working in the outdoors, we have witnessed the transformational value of simple confidence building in adults and this project is a vital step towards embedding nature and outdoor play into the lives of families in South Ayrshire. The Swim Safe programme will run for 4 weeks at the start of June, open via a public booking system by Adventure Carrick who will co deliver the Swim Safe programme and will also be targeted at the Skylarks and Adventure club children who have been involved in the SOAR programme with Undersky.
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