ABOUT US
WHO ARE WE AND WHAT DO WE DO?
Claire Bryan
ABOUT THE NCCBC
NCCBC is a membership organisation that has around £300,000 available to spend on improvements in North Carrick each year.
The NCCBC was formed as a Company Limited by Guarantee (No: SC480121) in June 2014 and registered as a Charity (No: SC045947) in August of 2015
The company is set up to administer grant funding from renewable energy sources and any other source that fits with the company and its charitable status. The company also has the power to negotiate with its funders the agreements and contracts for the funding streams. The company does not have the power to lobby or get involved in planning applications, this is the function of the community councils as statutory consultees.
The company received its first tranche of funding, £207,000 from ScottishPower Renewables Dersalloch Windfarm, in September 2015 and administered its first grants approvals in November and schedules funding rounds every 3 months.
You can find more information about ScottishPower Renewables’ Community Benefit activities here.
THE PLACES WE FUND
The company and its provision of funding covers the whole of North Carrick and the 5 community council areas within that area. These consist of Crosshill, Straiton and Kirkmichael as 1, Kirkoswald, Maidens and Turnberry as 1 and then Dunure and Minishant and Maybole as the other 3 areas.
Post Covid Recovery Funding
In March 2022 NCCBC created a programme to give one-off grants aimed at voluntary organisations and social enterprises based in North Carrick, and also local youth groups. North Carrick includes Maybole, Crosshill, Kirkmichael and Straiton, Minishant, Dunure and Kirkoswald Maidens and Turnberry. These grants were designed to support groups which: 1. Lease or own property and/or have responsibility for the running costs of premises, usually including employing staff, and 2. Have experienced significant strain caused by the pandemic. NCCBC also recently published a new Strategy for Youth in North Carrick, and all of our local youth organisations were offered post-covid kick-start support. NCCBC identified a list of 25 local groups spread across North Carrick, who received grants ranging from £1,000 up to £15,000. Over £85,000 was distributed and feedback has shown that these one-off grants have been pivotal in giving local venues and groups support to get started again, reopen their doors, and kick off their activities after a very turbulent couple of years.
Community Projects Funding
Over the last few years NCCBC has provided an annual grant of £5,000 to each of the eight villages and £10,000 to Maybole to fund, without the requirement for any match funding, to progress projects proposed by the Communities and recommended by “Local Panels” including Members of NCCBC in each place. CPF has been adapted to support the needs of each community and their organisations with the the overarching principle being that decisions are made locally, by panels made up of NCCBC members and the wider community, chaired by an NCCBC director. More details on the next round of ‘CPF’ funding will be outlined at the upcoming AGM (October 2023).
MORE ABOUT SCOTTISHPOWER RENEWABLES
ScottishPower Renewables Dersalloch Windfarm in South Ayrshire is capable of generating up to 69MW of clean energy and is contributing community benefits to the communities across North Carrick.
ScottishPower Renewables Dersalloch Windfarm in South Ayrshire is capable of generating up to 69MW of clean energy and is contributing community benefits to the communities across North Carrick. The community benefit fund will provide more than £8,500,000 over the operational life of Dersalloch Windfarm. The members of North Carrick Community Benefit have been working in partnership with ScottishPower Renewables to distribute Community Benefit funds from Dersalloch Windfarm which can be used for a wide variety of initiatives that are of benefit to the communities of Dunure, Kirkoswald, Maybole, Minishant, Maidens, Turnberry, Crosshill, Straiton and Kirkmichael.
Kenny Peberdy, UK Director for ScottishPower Renewables said “Significant funding from renewable energy projects like Dersalloch Windfarm can play a very important role in supporting a range of projects that directly benefit local communities. We hope that the North Carrick Community Benefit fund will make a positive impact in the communities around the windfarm for decades to come.”
