Community Benefits Wishlist Submission

due to the incliment weather our edible garden has been badly damaged. we require soil or compost, to build our raised beds (we have these)

we require vegetable plugs for raised beds

we require material such as bark or gravel to form walkways between raised beds

Equipment ie an iron to maintain the green, our only asset

We are in desparate need of IT in our Squadron. At the moment we are fully relient on two staff personal laptops to teach around 25 cadets. This makes it extremely difficult for our young people to complete their lessons and their exams. It also creates delays in admin duties as the staff must share rescources. We dream of having three desktop computers and around 20 laptops, however anything would be greatly received. Unfotunately the RAF Air Cadets Intranet system isn't fully compatible with Chromebooks.

We would like six office chairs. This would be of great benefit to staff, rather than using the inaporpriate chairs currently in use.

We have a flight simulator which is currently unuseable due to the outdated nature of the computer running it. We would dearly love a gaming computer or laptop which would enable us to run the flight sim, not only for our cadets but to all the squadrons in our area as a learning rescource.

How does the Gift Giving Tree work? · We would be delighted if your organisation/business could support us this year by displaying a Christmas tree in your premises with our special tags, each tag representing a local child or young person in need. Customers, staff, volunteers or participants can take a tag and donate a gift. · Each tag placed on the tree represents a child or young person in our community who may not otherwise receive a gift this Christmas. · Together, we/you invite your customers, staff members, volunteers, or participants and wider community to take a tag and donate a gift in support of a child. Suggested donations include: · Toys or games · Gift vouchers · Sweet treats · Gift sets The value of each gift is at the donor’s discretion. We kindly ask that all gifts are returned unwrapped and in an open gift bag. Children benefiting from the project are identified through local schools, nurseries, youth organisations, and food larders. (From Three Towns, Kilwinning and Irvine) ensuring that support reaches those who need it most Alternatively, if you would like to donate large gift bags or selection boxes we would be truly grateful Gift vouchers or gift sets for older teenagers We are asking for a financial contribution to purchase these items as most years people do not donate for teenagers particularly boys as they do for younger children We want to ensure that all the children referred to us receive a gift at Christmas

We are looking at painting some playground games and quotes to make the playground brighter to do this we are looking for playground paint which cost between £30 -£60 a tin we are looking at as much as we can get so we can make our playground brighter and better for our young people.

We are looking to see if we could get 200 selection boxes donated for the children. many of our families live in an area of high deprivation and for some children this maybe the only gift they receive this session. Any support whether through donations or selection boxes would make a huge difference.

We are looking at providing our kids with an outdoor classroom for outdoor learning activities, a trim trail, playground markers, literacy and maths sheds and a poly tunnel to start a gardening group. This is looking to be in the region of £20,000 for this so we are appealing to anyone who can donate some funding to these project . We would really appreciate any support.

This winter we are hosting a pantomime for the community. We'd like to be able to give the children a free selection box and meet Santa after the showing. We're looking for 320 selection boxes to give out. Our pantomime is on 13th December.

This winter we are hosting a pantomime for the community. We'd like to be able to provide juice and a tuck shop for families. We're looking for a supply for this for our show on the 13th December.

We host a number of groups including groups with accessibility requirements. Our hall carpark has served us well over the years but is in need of repair. We are hoping someone can support us in repairing/resurfacing it.

Embroidered badges showing the Friends of Lochshore Park logo. Either sow-on type or self adhesive. These will be attached to our recently acquired fleece jackets to help with public identification of our volunteers. (I have attached our logo for production purposes).

Black or navy baseball caps and woolly hats. Also to help with identification and to help keep our heads warm whilst working outside during the winter months.

Life jackets for use with our small boat on the Loch. This will assist with conservation surveys and to access areas of the park that are inaccessible from the shore. Any other small boat equipment would also be very welcome such as a small outboard motor etc.

We'd a donation to purchase some board games such as snakes and ladders, monopoly, ludo, dominos, jigsaws. Colouring in pens and books.

Donations of biscuits, mince pies, sweets, drinks and refreshments for our Christmas event.

Donation of money to take our group ten pin bowling. Transport is a massive cost for us when taking our group out. A financial donation would really help us cut our costs.

Laptop for our treasurer to carry out her duties.

Contribution towards our fundraiser for repairs. Details below: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/isle-of-arran-heritage-museum-trust-and-association-sc002089

Computer for archives as don't have enough for number of volunteers.