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Vics In The Community - Financial Wellbeing Support
2025-07-30 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
With the community being recognised as the most deprived Community in South Ayrshire and in the top 5% most deprived data zones in Scotland, it is evident that financial inclusion and wellbeing support is needed within the community. Vics are very fortunate to have received funding that has helped create a staffing resource who can provide support; however, the team require funding to be able to offer vouchers to support food and fuel poverty, support people in crisis, organise early intervention programmes/support for young people, adults and families and continue to support people with training that leads to volunteering and employment.
Our Community Team anticipate an increase in referrals and people engaging with Vics when our new Community Hub opens. The Hub will provide a new place/space where we can offer a range of activities such as cooking on a budget, mental health and wellbeing programmes and support for volunteers.
Funding will be used to assist, support and develop our work in North Ayr and funding will target people living in poverty including young people, adults and families.
Our request is to focus on emergency support while also developing learning programmes at our hub including cooking groups/programmes.
- Resources for group work/activities (Young People/Adults) - £1450 This will include food, cooking equipment; such as pot/pans, bain marie and cutlery.
- Emergency support (Food/Fuel/ Vouchers Essentials) - £3500
Wellbeing Fund for South Ayrshire Young Carer Families
2025-07-15 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
The Honeypot Children’s Charity has provided residential short breaks for young carers aged 5-12 for nearly 30 years - and since 2023 from our Honeypot House located in rural East Ayrshire. Young carers referred to us for a break spend 3 days and 2 nights at our house – a former school that has been refurbished to provide bedrooms and play areas so that we can host groups of 12 children and provide a range of activities. We also offer Memory Making Days and further wraparound support for young carers and their families. Through our partnership with the South Ayrshire Health and Social Carer Partnership we support many young carers from South Ayrshire.
As part of our range of wraparound services, we can offer young carer families support through our Wellbeing Fund. Wellbeing grants have a value of up to £250. These grants will be used for essentials such as laptops that young carers need to do schoolwork, clothing including school uniforms, blankets, furniture such as beds and mattrasses, and white goods such as more energy efficient fridges or laundry machines. These purchases provide great relief to disadvantaged households who are struggling to make ends meet. Our dedicated Wellbeing Fund Co-ordinator will work with families who apply for these grants to assess their eligibility (if they can evidence financial hardship) and what their most urgent needs are and how goods purchased can help them save money and/or benefit the young carer with their education for example.
Extra Time
2025-07-28 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
Your funding would help the Charity to enhance the provision to children and families in Ayr North through our extra time project which runs after schools in the 4 primary schools. The project brings people together through football, promoting improved heatlh and wellbeing, reducing isolation and offering guidance and support to reduce child poverty, improve awareness of support avaailable through resources including the information and advice hub, and promoting access to skills, education and employment.
The Charity will also aim to offer volunteering opportunities including football coaching qualifications and the opportunity to get involved in the charity's many projects,
The poverty and deprivation rates in Ayr North are among the highest in Scotland, the charity's work across the community is committed to tackling these issues long term.
SeAscape Flexible Frontline Fund
2025-07-31 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
An award from the Financial Inclusion Fund will allow us to continue to operate a Flexible Frontline Fund which in the last financial year helped us increase the number of positive homeless prevention outcomes in South Ayrshire. Last year this emergency fund was accessible to our service users in the Private Rented Sector who were at risk of homelessness and needed urgent intervention, in this financial year we would like to broaden the eligibility criteria for the fund to include all tenures. Distribution of funds will be at the discretion of our support workers, overseen by our service coordinator to determine what the person needs and will directly impact on the prevention activities undertaken in their case.
Examples may include but are not limited to:
Person has identified and moved into alternative accommodation but has exhausted funds in removal costs etc and needs short term assistance to top up their electric/gas meters.
Person we are supporting has moved to a village location without mains gas, and is required to pay in advance to fill their oil tank for which there is no alternative energy support.
Person we are supporting has been able to access alternative accommodation but needs some assistance to top up their deposit/rent in advance/pay for removal costs to secure the accommodation and directly prevent homelessness and is unable to wait for the outcome of DHP for fear of losing the offered property.
Person we are supporting has lost/damaged their mobile phone which prevents them from engaging with essential support/adhering to Universal Credit claimant commitment etc. This would allow us to replace the phone to ensure we can continue to engage with them and link them in with other key services. We can supply a SIM card with 6 months call time and data through our partnership with Vodafone.
Person is at risk of eviction due to condition of tenancy / hoarding. This would allow us to access specialist cleaning / clearing / support where there are no alternatives available from other agencies.
Giving people the opportunity to lift themselves out of poverty by assisting with funding not available through statutory sources, which would allow a person to access training or employment opportunities through assisting with certification, renewal of construction cards etc.
@48 community cafe
2025-07-31 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
Working with our members we developed a proposal to create a vibrant and thriving venue (@48) in the heart of Ayr, which enriches and enhances the whole community. @48 is an alcohol free, family friendly, venue which offers social activities and events, along with opportunities for volunteering, accredited training, and employment, and opportunities to support the local community to develop.
We currently operate a weekly community café, Café Hope, which offers tasty home cooked three course meal for £2.50, with under 16s eating for free. One of our ambitions is to open the community café further, providing a safe space for the whole community. To support our ambition we would like to offer our volunteers who are in recovery or affected family members, additional training and support to allow the community café to be led by our volunteers and accessibly to the whole community.
Our proposal seeks funding to support three areas:
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Purchase of catering / café equipment / volunteer clothing / equipment to allow us to prepare the café to be open at additional times.
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Supporting our new monthly Family Café we run in partnership with the Connexions Family Support service. The family café provides a safe space for children and parents to come together, access fun activities and a free lunch.
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Introducing a ‘pay it forward’ model for our community café where individuals on low income can attend and feel part of their local community, reducing isolation and stigma.
Glendoune Drop-in
2025-08-14 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
To provide food, gas and electicity to those in need of support in the local community of Glendoune, Girvan.
30 weeks: Food Pantry Items
30 weeks: Gas & Electricty Vouchers
The Carrick Centre – Heat & Eat Family Supper Club
2025-08-12 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
We will run a “Heat and Eat” Family Supper Club every Tuesday evening from the end of October 2025 to the end of March 2026, alongside our Food Pantry’s evening opening hours. Families will be able to collect affordable groceries and enjoy a hot, nutritious meal in a warm, welcoming space, helping to reduce food insecurity and fuel poverty.
The grant will be used to cover:
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Food for 20 Supper Club sessions
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Kitchen equipment
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Reusable resources for families
This combination of food, equipment, and take-home resources will allow us to deliver high-quality meals, encourage healthy cooking and storage practices at home, and ensure the project leaves a lasting benefit for local families.
Young Start
2025-07-08 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
We are seeking £2,500 for the healthy food resource for our Young Start Project. This project has already secured £33,000 for Year 1 from the National Lottery Young Start Programme.
The project will run as an after-school club throughout the academic year and support summer school activity, so this funding would have material impact in an area of social deprivation and high child poverty rates.
Breaking Chains of Poverty
2025-07-31 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
We plan to continue the much needed work, offering hot meals and drinks and physical, mental, spiritual and practical support to vulnerable people who access our service. The money will be used to pay for food parcels, hot meals and drinks at the weekly drop-in and crisis intervention when needed. We will also meet any training costs for staff and volunteers to enhance their skills and upgrade their knowledge in relation to their job role.
Ballantrae Resilience Group
2025-07-15 • No comments • • Financial Inclusion Fund 2025/26
The group has just been developed, the funds would be used to purchase a supply of long life food which can be donated to those in need. Funds would also be used to purchase solar powered torch,radio and power banks, flasks and portable generators to be loaned out in emergency circumstances.