Following extensive community consultation, we plan to deliver three evening groups at Dundonald Castle Hub: a Silent Book Club, Dundonald Historical & Archive Group, and a Creative Writing Group. Funding will be used towards staffing and utilities to help our charity open the Hub in the evenings, and to ensure the ongoing sustainability of these groups. This will support us in providing free, accessible activities for people of all ages with daytime commitments (carer, parental and employment amongst others), while tackling loneliness and social isolation over the autumn and winter months in our rural area.

Up grade shelving 

Hoover 

Door mats 

And have a gazebo

For use of the groups who use the shop 

 Funding will enable the group to access monthly trips throughout the year, ensuring that these are accessible to all by paying for the use of a mini bus from SACT to transport the group

P7 pupils from 9 schools, prioritising those with a catchment area serving the most deprived and poorest areas of Ayr, will be transported to Ayr town Hall where representatives of between 30 and 35 widely different careers have been invited for the day. The reps have been selected as they are known to be enthusiastic about the work they do, are great communicators, and in the majority of cases, have asked to return after previously been involved in the Project over the last 2 years.

The Career stalls are designed to be highly interactive and "Hands-0n"; we are not telling the pupils what grades they need and what college of course they need to aim for (this is done at Secondary school by careers teachers); we want to inspire them, encourage them to think beyond what they think they might end up doing when they leave school. We believe this will motivate them as they start secondary school in a few months after the event.All the Careers reps give up a day, all in their own time, some self employed. Rotarians are on hand to help the teachers supervise the children on the day.

Funding is used for Hire of the Venue (Ayr Town Hall - £250), Hire of the buses to transport the pupils (£850), and a light sandwich lunch and refreshments for the 60 to 70 Careers Reps who will be attending (£300 which Rotary will Fund)

1. We have completed two out of four stages of the mural art project, and we require additional funding towards paying our artist fees and materials to enable us to complete the Stage 3 of the mural by March 2026.

1. We want to continue our community engagement and raise the awareness of the ART mural to the Ayrshire community. We wish to do this by linking with a local community group, Dementia Friendly, Prestwick. Their members have previously got involved in the project by painting part of the mural. Now we want to develop our relationship with them by arranging a special event to launch their artwork: Dementia Friendly Guided Tour so they can see their work installed in the mural and experience this arts project and feel valued and included in their community. We will learn from this inaugral event and in the future be able to offer more dementia friendly guided walks in the tunnel for older people in the wider South Ayrshire community. 

The funding will pay for:

• Transport to bring participants and their carers to/from Alloway.
• Tour guide from ‘Tasting History Ayrshire Tours’ who will plan, organise and lead the tour which will involve storytelling from ‘Agnes Burns’ character, recitals of poems and musical performances from local musicians.
• Refreshments in the tunnel and at the Robert Burns Birthplace Museum
• Printed information sheets acting as a visual anchor for the dementia group participants.