Beith Community Development Trust Annual Report
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2 0 1 3 - 14 Beith Community Development Trust Annual Report Contents The Financial Bit …………….....1 Our Work ………………………. 2 Beith Astro……………………….3 The Numbers The Big Swap…………………….4 We’ve organised over 200 workshops, Ideas Bank………………………..5 activities and events with a footfall of over Community Mapping Project...6-8 3000 of which over 500 were new Pop-Up Beith…………………….9 participants. The New BCDT Brand………...10 In addition to this over 30 teams made use Awards & Accreditations……....11 of the Beith Astro on a weekly basis through Staff & Volunteers……………...12 training and playing. Our Funders…………………….13 The BCDT Board………………13 Our income increased by over £250,000 Thank you to the Community…14 over the course of the year. Looking to the Future………….14 The Financial Bit We had £20,380 at the start of the year. We raised £345,936 from trusts, funds, generated income and supporters. We spent £268,430 on workshops, staff, staffing and lots and lots of community activity. We finished the year with £97,886, £61,914 of which is restricted for What Else Happened… A Lego Group offered safe play for kids during the dark evenings A Gaelic Development Day was hosted in Beith A Cycle Scotland Bike Ability Course was completed by 14 local people The Easter Camp was attended by 127 children over a two week period A top of the range floodlight system was purchased for the pitch took place A parent and child space education programme Two new full time members of staff were recruited One Community Job Scotland post was filled An outdoor education week was organised in partnership with local primary schools with over 400 children attending. 47 bikes were collected to be recycled and rehomed where possible Awards and qualifications were offered to local people including the Play Maker Award, Sports Leader Award, Young Leader Award and Saltire Award Unlicensed Events hosted 2 headphone discos in Beith and 2 live music events BCDT hosted the 1st ever Activate course in North Ayrshire, in partnership with the University of Glasgow. Our Work At Beith Community Development Trust we are passionate about one thing; Our Community. We do our best to cater for all of the community through a number of programmes and projects. Friday Night Footy Fives This is a social football on a casual basis sometimes with as many as 51 participants during Summer months. Nurture group at Beith Primary School BCDT have been working closely with Beith Primary School to deliver a nurture group for a group of 5-6 year olds. The group meet Soup Dragons once a week and partake in outdoor A new programme has been introduced education based at Beith Primary School or to encourage the young people in Beith Beith Astro, accompanied by BCDT’s thera- to be more involved in outdoor activity pets Poppy and Daisy. including cooking outdoors, habitat building and increasing awareness of the Anti-sectarian Give Bigotry the Boot environment and wildlife. The Programme participants are also working towards BCDT designed this programme to deliver to both gaining the Playmaker award. primary and secondary children in order to educate them on what sectarian behaviour is, how to tackle it and how to oppose it. The programme was delivered to 7 schools throughout the Garnock Valley and culminated in a foorball tournament at the Astro involving all children who had participated in the programme. Beith Astro New Ecommerce Site New branding A fully functioning ecommerce site for The Beith Astro branding has had a the Beith Astro has been developed, it makeover and now appears a lot more will launch in the Summer of 2014 and commercial and appealing to the target offers individuals, teams and clubs the market. This has been roled out across all chance to book all available services at customer touch points including online the Astro. and offline channels. New Marketing Strategy New Products & Services A new strategy has been A range of new services has been developed, setting in stone developed to bring planned promotional activity, a in new business; pricing strategy, an overhaul of Astro Ball and the physical environment, Kids Birthday customer processes, people and Parties being the positioning within the market. most successful to date. The Big Swap BCDT’s Big Swap project has seen a very successful second year. The Big Swap project is aimed at recycling, reusing and reducing waste in Beith. The Big Swap has been led by projects such as Kit Swaps and Eco Laundry, powered by our very own solar panels. Eco Laundry Our Eco Laundry service was introduced in 2013 as a method of cutting down the carbon footprint of the Beith community. Eco Laundry allowed our teams to leave dirty kits after matches, which are washed in washing Kit Swap machine powered by our solar panels. The Kit Swap continues to be one of BCDT’s Laundry is then dried through our very biggest successes to date. Kits and boots are own air-drying system. At present we refurbished, recycled and re-homed amongst have washed and air-dried 587 loads of clubs and teams all over Scotland, as far a field as football strips in our Eco Laundry, South Uist. To date we have rehomed 1161kg of saving 21.34 tonnes of CO2 emissions. kits and equipment, with a value of £4371. Ideas Bank in partnership with SenScot & the Climate Challenge Fund. The Ideas Bank is a partnership that has been developed between BCDT, SenScot and the Climate Challenge Fund. The partnership is aimed at supporting sports clubs in their bid to reduce their carbon footprint by reducing, re-homing and reusing. To date the partnership has successfully supported Linwood Community Development Trust, Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre and Blantyre Soccer Academy to secure Climate Challenge Fund contributions, allowing them to encourage their communities to reduce their carbon footprint. Linwood Community Development Trust Kit Ardroy Outdoor Education Centre's Ardroy Recycle & Caboodle project works in conjunction project in Lochgoilhead is designed to contribute to with the local football community to protecting the environment by recycling wetsuits and encourage behaviour change principally other equipment to eliminate part of their landfill around sports related activities such as travel usage and to reduce their energy consumption by habits and recycling sports kits and using polytunnels as part of the drying process. These equipment. Activities will include kit and two strands added to the food/garden waste recycling boot recycling, bulk laundry including air plant already established at the centre will enable drying and the promotion of long term travel them to give practical examples and guidance to behaviour change. children, teenagers and adults attending residential courses. Blantyre Soccer Academy’s PASSBACK project aims to change the behavioural habits of parents and coaches and encourage them to recycle, reduce and reuse kit by changing the way they wash and redistribute their sports kit which will lead to a reduction in landfill emissions. The project will also reduce carbon emissions associated with travel. Community Mapping Project Last summer BCDT with the help of an intern from the Glasgow School of Art and Baxendale organised a Community Asset Mapping Exercise, this spanned over an 18 month period . Baxendale is a family of employee owned businesses that helps organisations to build a responsible, sustainable and profitable future, through our unique combination of advice and investment. The Mapping Exercise invited local members of the community to a series of events and activaties intended to ask the community to map their hopes , aspirations, ambitions and ides for the future of Beith. The giant graffiti map allowed participants to pin up labels with their plans and inspired people to look at the community as a building block. As an outcome of the focus groups, questionnaires, interviews and events a document detailing the outcomes was produced, this explained in detail the aspirations of the town. A selection of these dreams are detailed on the following pages. 1. Community Well-being Centre 2. Trinity Arts Centre Replacement of existing community centre The vacated Trinity Church and health centre with a combined would be transformed into an community hub that promotes well-being arts centre providing facilities through a diverse range of activity. for performance, rehearsal, Located on the site of the current health painting and photography. Permanent and temporary centre and connecting to a new ground for gallery space would be created Beith Juniors and Beith Astro. Also as well as a new small-scale incorporated would be a new running cinema ‘Beith Picture House’. track, skate park and hockey facility. 3. Artistic Residencies 4. Walking Trail A programme of artistic residencies should be Beith has a thriving canoe club that currently delivered to enact creative tangible and immediate has limited facilities on Loch Kilbirnie. We changes to areas of the town these residencies could propose an upgrade of these facilities to be focused on the following: provide increased storage, changing areas, a) Shop shutter project – artwork on all the shutter to office, kitchen, social space and viewing enliven the streets tower b) Routes of colour – artwork along routes that 5. Beith Canoe Centre children take to school Beith has a thriving canoe club that currently c) Gable ends – exposed gables from demolition to has limited facilities on Loch Kilbirnie. We receive murals or plants propose an upgrade of these facilities to provide increased storage, changing areas, d) Whisky Bond – artwork applied to the Whisky office, kitchen, social space and viewing tower. Bonds to enliven the view into Beith e) Bus stop exhibitions within vacant shop windows 7. Expansion of Beith Townhouse Beith Townhouse provides a fascinating and 6.