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Investment projects with scope: Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Total budget £65,000

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Weaving Coast and Community

No comments Crag Community Arts SCIO organisation Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Our project links in to the priority "Making Coastal Communities more attractive places to live and work" by providing creative opportunities for local people to come together to learn new skills and contribute to community produced woven art works as well as providing paid work for a local artist to run the sessions

£1,260
Carrick Centre Cafe

Carrick Centre Cafe Revamp

No comments Carrick Centre Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Revamp of the café servicing area to improve customer experience, increase food choice and display space, benefiting residents of Maybole, North Carrick communities, and visitors.

£1,800
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A Shining Light

No comments Ayr Gaiety Partnership (Gaiety Theatre) organisation Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Our aim is to make a lasting difference to the town’s cultural landscape by re-vitalising the entrances to the theatre by not only ensuring the accessibility, safety and environmental aspects by improving the lighting but cementing the theatre being memorable and welcoming to the community, patrons and tourists alike.

£5,871
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The Broadway Cinema Experience Development

No comments kylemacfarlane290435 Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

To ensure we continue to evolve the Broadway Cinema Experience and ensure continued success; additional health and safety works, facility upgrades, projection equipment enhancements, and accessibility improvements are necessary to improve public access and enable events and community use. We are asking for capital funding support from the Coastal Communities Fund to enhance our facilities and ensure they remain safe, accessible, and usable for the foreseeable future.

£5,400

Friends of Craigie Allotments Association – maintaining the allotments

No comments Joy Hill Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

We aim to provide a space for people in community to improve their health and wellbeing through ethical gardening. Objectives - • To conserve, preserve, protect and improve the land worked on. • To encourage all plot holders to take an active part in the maintenance and improvement of the allotment site. To promote the benefits of community growing and gardening to the inhabitants of Ayr and surrounding area without distinction

£870

Kick a Bout Girvan

No comments Stuart Watson Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Free summer football activities in Girvan and South Carrick improving health, reducing isolation and tackling food poverty, while creating volunteering and skills opportunities for young people.

£7,560

Beach Adventure Day

No comments Vincent McWhirter Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

We are looking to expand upon our valuable summer programme, which targets multiple disadvantaged groups within the community, and deliver a free family event for the public to attend. We propose an all-day event at Barassie Beach suitable for primary aged children and families. This funding would be used to contract UnderSky to deliver imaginative and story-led beach-based play sessions bringing children and families together for active intergenerational play. Each session will be bookable.

£720

Kirkmichael Community Cafe Catering essentials

No comments Caroline Lorimer Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

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£6,473
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Replacing the flooring in our shop on Newmarket Street, Ayr

No comments Ayrshire Cancer Support organisation Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Spaces and places; Live, work and learn. This will enhance the charity shop, which helps generate vital income for Ayrshire Cancer Support, while enhancing the shopping and working experience for customers, staff and volunteers.

£919
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Bridge to Shore

No comments Andrew Downie Coastal Communities Fund 2025/2026

Harbour Ayrshire will deliver trauma-informed recovery and wellbeing support across rural coastal communities, reducing isolation, improving mental health, and increasing community participation for vulnerable adults and families.

£6,590