Estimated Price

£4,829

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In relation to the identified priorities in the Guidance & Essential criteria what will your idea achieve and who will benefit from your project?

Tarbolton CC aims to relaunch a printed newsletter run by young volunteers to reduce isolation, boost skills, and reconnect the Three Villages with local news, events, and opportunities.

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Please describe what you plan to do and what the money will be used for? (i.e., purchase equipment/resources)

The Tarbolton Community Council SCIO is applying for this funding as part of its affiliation with the ‘Three Villages Forum’. We have recently ran a ‘Trip Down Memory Lane’ project which was out inaugural project to show people that as villages we are not only tightly night in terms of our history but the communities are still close. During this some old copies of a monthly newsletter that was distributed round Tarbolton in the 80s/90s called ‘The Tarbolton Times’ were found and brought along to our consultation sessions and from the public there was an overwhelming consensus that this is something that should be brought back.

In the times that we live in where everything is posted on social media, those who aren’t on it find life very isolating (especially in the outlying villages of Tarbolton, Annbank, and Mossblown). In addition to this, there is no space for community groups to provide regular longer form updates to the public because of social medias demand for content to be short and engaging for our ever shrinking attention spans. The Three Villages Forum is going to bring back the Tarbolton Times as ‘The Voice of the Villages’ which will be a monthly/bi-monthly printed booklet/newsletter that will be sold within the Three Villages. This will help to bring the communities closer together by updating each other on our news and it will also reduce social isolation, an issue which is so prevalent, within the villages by updating those socially isolated on what is going on in the community and what events are running, encouraging them to attend and integrate back into community life.

This is going to help prepare people for employment, training, education & volunteering opportunities because the magazine is going to be run solely by young volunteers. Equipping with them with skills in journalism, writing, communications, design, commercial printing, marketing, distribution, community engagement, and so much more we are providing them with invaluable on-the-job experience that they can they use when applying to jobs, apprenticeships, college, university, etc. We plan to work with industry experts who can come and speak to the volunteer team and provide them with advice for those wishing to go into the industries.

All profits that are made off the publication will go right back into the production of it.

In order to make the project viable in the long term and reduce costs we plan to purchase the printing equipment and materials ourselves rather than relying on commercial printing costs for each issue. We plan to apply for £4,829.72 which will cover a Printer, Machinery, Materials, and Workstations.