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NCCBC are delighted to share an exciting upcoming opportunity for work in North Carrick.
View the advert, job description and application forms below.
Please get in touch with Stuart if you have any questions about this opportunity – Email stuart@nccbc.org.uk
Please get in touch with Stuart if you have any questions about this opportunity – Email stuart@nccbc.org.uk
NCCBC is a membership organisation that has around £300,000 available to spend on improvements in North Carrick each year. 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 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.
South Ayrshire Council received over £12m worth of project proposals and had to whittle that down to a shortlist of projects with a total value of not more than £3 million. NCCBC’s project made it onto the shortlist of five projects
put forward by the Council and is one of only two of the shortlisted projects that has been approved by the UK Government.
The money, which includes a £50,000 contribution from North Carrick Community Benefit Company, will be used for an intensive programme to convert community and business aspirations, ideas, and proposals into investment-ready projects. The Government specified that this funding has to be used for revenue and not capital costs. So NCCBC will employ consultants, engineers, architects, and
other experts. They will work on a range of projects covering tourism, community assets, and workforce development.
The best thing about this “Foundations for Recovery” programme is that the work that these experts will do will lead directly to further funding applications. Those new applications will be to cover the capital costs of making big improvements in North Carrick. All in all, North Carrick could be in the early stages of a huge positive change.
Every community in North Carrick will be involved in Foundations for Recovery in one way or another. A very exciting time for our area!
Contact your local NCCBC Director or Stuart Lindsay to find out more – stuart.northcarrick@gmail.com
See North Carrick on the map of UK projects here- View Interactive Map!
Calling on North Carrick’s Young People
As part of her role with NCCBC, Claire Bryan is supporting Lynda Johnstone, the consultant who is employed to produce a Youth Strategy for Maybole & North Carrick. Both are keen to talk with young people about what needs to be done to improve things. So, if you’re a parent or work with young people – or better still, if you’re a young person – please follow and share our social media channels for upcoming polls, activities and events!
https://www.facebook.com/improvingNC/ or https://www.instagram.com/improvingnc/
Charity Shop and the Flat above in Maybole
Soaring costs in the construction sector led to NCCBC looking into alternative uses for this building – including combining it with next door properties and developing social housing.
None of the alternatives seem to be viable and so NCCBC has decided to plough on with the original proposal to repair and renovate the building, reopen the Charity Shop, and put the
flat up for rent. We are working closely with the Maybole Regeneration Project to see how this can be done.