Community Benefits Wishlist Submission

Support for maintenance works on our site including painting works, landscaping, repairs and maintenance. We also require support in our boatbuilding works with skilled tradesmen restoring historic vessels.

We are working on several vessels and Sponsorship of these projects would enable us to ensure the survival of these historically important vessels.

We require materials and paint to undertake repairs and maintenance to our buildings. The supply of tools would also be welcome.

We are looking for some advice from a professional fundraiser who can help us to become more self sustainable in the future

To help us reach people who may not have heard of us and the services we offer, and to help with fundraising, we are looking for help to plan a large local event such as a ladies lunch etc.  We are also looking for donations of materials like raffle prizes and decorations, volunteers to help on the day and help with marketing.

Following the sad passing of one of NODA Ayrshire's volunteers Mary Connelly NODA would like to commemorate a bench in her honour. Mary was a much loved and well respected member of the team, and of the local community - having also volunteered for Samaritans and Cats Protection for many years beforehand. Help sourcing a bench by helping us with fundraising would be most appreciated.

Our mobile single axle Groundhog welfare unit rests on a slight slope in our partial tarmac car park. The welfare unit contains a small kitchen/mess room, single toilet compartment and generator compartment. This is used by both our volunteer guides and the toilet by visitors to our site. If some construction company could help us to build up and thereby level out the ground below which the groundhog unit sits allowing it to sit level that would be a major benefit all users. Our visitor site is currently closed from October to March reopening in April 2022. We will pay for the material costs.

The grass verge outside our museum venue Skelmorlie Secret Bunker Meigle road PA17 5 HF has two large deep trenches caused by the wheels of farm vehicles and HGVs at this passing point. We would be very grateful If a contractor could put some hardcore or similar suitable material into these trenches to level the grass verge and thereby making it safe for vehicle traffic.

Joiner to replace 3 locks on the toilets doors to improve access to the public toilets. Plus look at repairing damaged section I’d Woodwynd on fascia of building.

Sponsorship of a section of picnic in the park or the community fireworks display.

We are working towards the installation of a new crazy golf course in McGavin Park and are looking for contractor support to complete it. This would include creation of new crazy golf features and surfacing some of the exiting features surfaces, and we are open to working with more than one contractor to help improve the facilities in the park for our community.

Building and paving materials such as sand, concrete, paving bricks, postcrete - no deadline but specific project. We cannot get a contravctor to commit and it is a bit heavy for our age fgroup - mostly in our 70s.

We are always seeking compost, bark, fertiliser and gardening equipment. We are particularly looking for 2 strimmers. Plants and shrubs are also welcomed.

The windows in our centre are rotting away and the frames barely hold the glass in place anymore. We are seeking a donation of £1000 to put towards the cost of new windows.

We recently had a roof survey completed and we require an asbestos survey to confirm the findings of the initial review. Our roof is leaking and we are keen to get the right professional advice ASAP so we can keep the hall in good shape for as long as we can.

We really need help with our windows and repairs to our roof. To make the building wind and watertight so that we can continue our charity's business we would need: • the roof tarred • internal stud partitions build in two rooms • plasterboarding of the walls in these rooms • painting in these rooms and • if required the drains unblocked. We would also be grateful for any donations of funding towards the cost of this work, as it can be extremely challenging to secure funding through external grants for repair works.