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Integrating land use planning and public health
August 05th, 2021
A new briefing: Place and Wellbeing: integrating land use planning and public health in Scotland has been published. It sets out four key messages crucial to improving policy and practice in land use planning for health and wellbeing: Stronger together through improved collaboration Shared evidence leading to shared policy actions Shared policy actions leading to […]
Available Funding – August 2021
August 02nd, 2021
£50m for the UK’s Grassroot Football Pitches in 2022 Funding is to be made available to enable the delivery of more football pitches and facilities in UK communities.   The UK Government has announced an additional £50 million investment in football pitches to help support the wave of interest in the sport inspired by EURO […]
Free Bus Travel for Under 22s
July 29th, 2021
All residents in Scotland under the age of 22 will be eligible for free bus travel from 31 January 2022. The Scottish Government has confirmed the timetable for the roll out of the scheme, delivered in partnership with the Improvement Service, the National Entitlement Card Programme Office and Young Scot. Approximately 930,000 young people will join the third of Scotland’s population […]
Community Ownership Fund
July 20th, 2021
The UK Government have launched the Community Ownership Fund. This is available to community and voluntary organisations to support sustainable community ownership of assets, amenities and facilities which are at risk of being lost. You can find out more information here. You may also be interested in the webinars taking place this week, on Tuesday […]
Virtual Job Fair
July 07th, 2021
    CEIS  Ayrshire are hosting a Virtual Jobs Fair on Wednesday 21st July 2021 from 2pm to 4pm. This will be hosted on their Facebook page (link below) with videos from employers who are actively recruiting. The vacancies will be mainly for young people aged 16 to 24 but there will be opportunities for […]
Local Place Plan Workshops
June 15th, 2021
Community representatives and Community Planning partners came together over two workshops in May and June to consider Local Place Plans. What are they? How might they work in North Ayrshire? Find the presentations and workshops report below. Local Place Plans Workshops Report Local Place Plan Presentation –  June 2021 Local Place Plan Presentation – May […]
Transport and Child Poverty – Beyond the pandemic
June 11th, 2021
A report on the relationship between child poverty and transport has been published. It includes the transport challenges faced by low-income families, the role of transport in alleviating poverty alongside other public policy areas and the policies and initiatives which would assist low-income families
Free School Meals
June 11th, 2021
The Scottish Government and local authorities have reached agreement to introduce universal free school lunches for primary 4 and 5 children and targeted support during school holidays for all eligible primary and secondary children and young people. This will deliver free school lunches during term time for P4 children by August 2021 and to P5 children by January 2022. Councils will determine what […]
Connecting Scotland – Phase 3
June 11th, 2021
Phase 3 of Connecting Scotland is now live. Connecting Scotland is delivered in partnership with the Scottish Council for Voluntary Organisations (SCVO) and local authorities in collaboration with a broad range of local, public and third sector organisations. It supports digital inclusion by providing for online training skills as well as providing people with devices like iPads and Chromebooks, and unlimited data […]
Get in to Summer
June 11th, 2021
The Scottish Government has announced funding allocations for local authorities and national partners to support summer programmes focusing  on the wellbeing of children and young people. A Scottish Government marketing campaign will launch the week beginning 14 June to help promote the opportunities available to children and young people in their local area
Healthy Housing for Scotland
June 11th, 2021
Public Health Scotland has published Healthy Housing for Scotland, a briefing paper setting out evidence on how housing can influence health and wellbeing. The aim of the paper is to assist the Scottish Government with impact assessing intended policy developments related to its Housing to 2040 strategy. It is also a tool for housing colleagues – who will […]
Developing a new CLD Plan in North Ayrshire
June 09th, 2021
What is CLD? CLD is a field of professional practice that enables people to identify their own individual and collective goals, to engage in learning and take action to bring about change for themselves and their communities. CLD uses a range of formal and informal methods of learning and social development with individuals and groups […]
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