Our project focuses on supporting volunteers by providing access to high-quality training and meaningful work experience at our Forest School and Outdoor Learning Centre. Through this initiative, we aim to create pathways into employability and volunteering opportunities while reducing poverty by ensuring accessibility for all—particularly those who are disengaged from mainstream education, or otherwise excluded, disabled, school-leavers and job-seekers etc.

Open Shed

The project will ultimately bring Girvan in line with most towns in having the equivalent of a town hall, a community venue large enough to host a reasonably sized event or function, benefitting everyone in Girvan. Both the venue and the proposed bunkhouse will also bring economic benefits to the town, increasing visitors to Girvan, and bringing employment opportunities within the project. We hope to provide educational opportunities in music, theatre and basic cooking for families.

1. Vics In The Community has adopted the key community wealth building values by ensuring we adopt fair work principles including paying the real living wage. 2. Vics are also committed to employing and creating volunteering and training opportunities for local people. 3. All our building and capital works have been carried out by local contractors . 4. Our pavilion serves the full community including young people, adults and families. 5. All our income is reinvested in to Vics.

To up grade the shelving etc Hoover Gazebo

Dr Bike Sessions by CGX Cycle Works

Volunteer-led hall improvements and scaffold purchase to make Ayr North’s community hub safer, sustainable, and welcoming, benefiting young people, groups, and local residents.

The Iris Arts will develop a community room that people living locally can call their own. Aligning with local priorities, Adult and Family Learning, Youth Work, Financial Inclusion and Community Development, we can develop a space adjoining our Community studio where people living locally can meet, share and learn. This will provide a space for our Youth Volunteers to meet, learn and create, families to engage in creative learning classes and older people to learn and feel less isolated.