READ US ONLINE VISIT www.communitywindpower.co.uk north ayrshire INSIDE... £7,000 FUNDING GRANT FOR HISTORIC DALRY PAVING todayDISTRIBUTED FREE TO LOCAL COMMUNITY GROUPS, SHOPS AND BUSINESSES RY THIST AL LE www.begreencentres.co.uk AUTUMN 2018 ISSUE 6 D THISTLE - F O 20 happy to move the UNDED 19 goalposts thanks to A STUNNING SUCCESS £3,700 DPBT DONATION £25,000 WINDFALL IT’S been a year of dramatic GRANT FOR progress as Community Windpower and Dalry BIGGART Parish Boundary Trust HALL continue to donate to local groups. This issue shows what can be achieved when we all work together – as the new Guides facility at Blair where we were the major funders so ...AND A SHATTERING clearly demonstrates. Just Unfortunately it’s not always plain sailing though as our vision for a MISSED OPPORTUNITY children’s educational centre went up Magic!£940 in flames while we waited to push the button. Read about both inside… GRANT HELPS LYNN GLEN’S FAIRY FRIENDS FIND US FAST... BeGreen Dalry 5 The Cross, Dalry, North Ayrshire KA24 5AL 01294 835881 Monday & Tuesday: 10am-2pm Thursday: 1pm- 4pm SEE Friday : 9.30am-1.30pm URGENT APPEAL FOR FOOD AND TOYS PAGE13 2 North Ayrshire Today Autumn 2018 Autumn 2018 North Ayrshire Today 3 HQ TEAM RAISES Julie Wales of the Bypass Art group explains that, thanks to funding from the Fundraising is £24,000 Dalry Parish Boundary Trust, local people can now enjoy… FOR BRAIN TUMOUR a tradition at RESEARCH QUICK Positivity and Progress CHECK 3 A Walk …despite the odd set-back Community Windpower Just some of the projects helped financially by DPBT My theme for this issue and Community Windpower can best be summed up in through two words: Positivity and The Barmill Jolly Progress. Beggars Burns £600 It’s been a really positive Club received DONATION period since our last issue a grant of £600 towards the costs Dalry’s and Community Windpower of organising an outing for and BeGreen have made senior citizens. real progress building on our A number of previous achievements while DIANE WOOD guests amongst working towards exciting new Community Benefits Director the 57 people History goals. who attended were Dalry Spirits are high and good things are happening. But Halfway there! Ranger Pete and Rob Fryer are to the extreme right. residents – Bypass Art members Julie Wales, Helen it’s not all been plain sailing. Unfortunately as you will As for the blue unicorn ... well it is Scotland’s national animal! hence the Walker, Linda Gallocher, Jacqueline Shaw see elsewhere in our pages we’ve had to deal with a qualification and Janet Seaton walk through history major setback. COMMUNITY Windpower don’t just donate to to our hearts. Many families are for grant aid. The awful arson at Craigends Farm not too far away local societies and innovative projects – they also affected by this disease and I Everyone enjoyed a in East Ayrshire has robbed another part of the county of very successful outing actively raise funds for charities and other good hope our efforts helped draw what would have been a fantastic educational asset. attention to the need to back that included High Tea and Coffee. £7,300 Our team’s disappointment at this turn of events was causes too – and by the sweat of their collective research like this with more brows. funding and resources. tangible when the whole project had to be shelved and Local charity APPROVED replaced with demolition of the historic farmhouse and Their CWP annual Charity Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge. ‘Brain tumours are extremely event the Blair £250 outbuildings to make the site safe. Challenge is presently in its sixth The squad, that included indiscriminate and can affect Gymkhana DONATION year and has over past years Rob Fryer, Gillian Cropper, anyone at any age. What’s in Dalry was PAID This has been hard to take. Sometimes it seems that £2,670 TO raised vital cash for Pancreatic Ben Fielding and Ranger Pete more, they kill more children and granted a born in Dalry. He does now the more we seek to help, the harder it gets! That’s a life donation of £250. BYPASS Art is a sub group of Dalry DATE lesson I suppose but saying that doesn’t make it any Cancer UK, Anthony Nolan, – all well known to readers of adults under the age of 40 than thanks to our pavers! and the Tarporley War Memorial North Ayrshire Today – plus any other cancer. Community Development Hub (DCDH). Unfortunately local history is easier to come to terms with. £7,300 award that has been Hospital. ‘Big Bosses’ Diane and Rod Andrea Pankiw, Community We originally formed installed seven pavers within not taught in our schools: there The polar opposite is the case at the Guides’ approved. Yes, history does Wood, tackled the Fundraising Manager at Brain because we wanted to site the existing path may well be an occasional Blair Activity Centre above Dalry, where the fruit cost money! three peaks of Pen-y- Tumour Research, said: ‘The a work of public art in front of the school project regarding it of our labours is there for all to see. “The money We completed the paving Ghent, Whernside and money raised from the walk on the new Dalry Biggart Fountain. but it’s not part of the school raised from the project at a cost of £2,620 What a fantastic facility we have helped create. My Ingleborough Bypass. This remains curriculum. So it’s up to walk helped that included the supply hearty congratulations go to Guides’ Project Manager – a combined our main objective but us locals to do our best to fund work at our and installation of the 50mm Betty Wilson and her wonderful team. Young folk in the total ascent somewhere along the highlight and promote it. four dedicated The Gymkhana offers the thick granite pavers made by future may not know Betty’s name but they will greatly of 1450mtrs. line we became involved Turning to the Centres of main equestrian disciplines Robertson’s Memorials of Dalry. benefit from her vision for many years to come. And despite in our local history, mainly commemorative paving, we Excellence.” of showing, showjumping and Our next project is to site a Community Windpower is proud to have played a a few groans cross country plus fun and thanks to the story of Andrea Pankiw new Heritage Board just off the major part in this wonderful educational development Community Fundraising here and pony/horse and fancy dress Bessie Dunlop. We are fortunate in Dalry Manager at Brain Tumour cross and another at the park and with the DPBT has since provided an additional Research moans classes where all the family In fact we would like to have the Community £15,000 to install a state-of-the-art catering kitchen. there the can get involved. the bypass work of art to Windpower/Dalry Parish gates. Please look out for them. We are fortunate in Dalry As building work on the new bypass continues entire group This was a case of the take the form of a statue in Boundary Trust Fund to have a fund such as the into 2019, so we also build for the future in an Having previously conquered finished the 24 and a Boundary Trust grant tribute to Bessie who was Julie Wales helping create further Community Windpower/ atmosphere crackling with positivity. our own Ben Nevis and hiked half miles route in less an innocent Dalry woman the Sandstone Trail in Cheshire, than 12 hours – a great donations as all monies raised are extremely grateful for the Dalry Parish Boundary Trust at the Gymkhana were then accused of witchcraft in Our BeGreen team continues to engage with local England, the HQ team is up for achievement. funding we have received that has enabled local groups groups and schools to help the youngest members of donated to charity. 1576. just about anything: they’ve even The 2018 Charity She was taken all the way to date from Dalry Parish and individuals to complete society learn, appreciate their environment and interact canoed the River Dee (not our Challenge Day was Boundary Trust. As I write a number of diverse and with the people they live amongst. to Edinburgh and tried at the own Aberdeenshire version but organised just after £600 capital’s High Court where we’ve received £2,670 of a worthwhile projects. Our £120,000 funding package for the Dalry Parish Ben Fielding appears to the river of the same name that CWP’s Managing be carrying the weight Dancing DONATION she was found guilty and Boundary Trust continues too, as they use their deep forms part of the border between Director Rod Wood’s for two. C’mon Sheraz! for Dalry subsequently burnt at the stake Paving Slab observations: local knowledge to help residents and groups. Wales and England). brother-in-law, Gavin on Castlehill. z The China Town slab has z Walter Wingate’s slab So despite the occasional setback, Community Yes, that’s impressive stuff Dickinson, sadly passed away helped fund work at our four 16 year old Dalry dancer At around the same time caused much discussion. features a verse of his Windpower is moving forward with our programme of and this year’s challenge was from a brain tumour at only 56 dedicated Centres of Excellence, Morgan Smith received as our formation, DCDH was z Bessie Dunlop’s fate was much loved poem ‘The community engagement. yet another stunning success as years of age.