Estimated Price

£2,000

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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?

Our proposal will allowing us to expand the opening of our alcohol free community cafe, providing a safe community space accessible by the whole community, as well as supporting our volunteers, who are in recovery or affected family members, to undertake training, education, and additional volunteering activities.

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

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:

• Purchase of catering / café equipment / volunteer clothing / equipment to allow us to prepare the café to be open at additional times.

• 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.

• 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.