Riverside Community Trust

💙💜RCT FUNDRAISER💜💙

On Saturday 5th October A fantastic team are raising vital funds for us by walking 10k from our base at Riverside Church to River Garden Auchincruive, then doing some volunteering work on site there before camping out in the grounds.

Please consider giving generously so we can continue to provide support for people affected by homelessness, addiction and the effects of poverty in our community

Riverside to River Garden A group of RCT supporters are walking 10k from Riverside Church to River Garden residential rehab, carrying out some volunteer work for the day before camping out on the grounds there.

JOB OPPORTUNITY - WOULD YOU LIKE TO JOIN OUR TEAM?
For full job description and application form please email [email protected]

Today was a special day celebrating the launch of South Ayrshire ADP's one stop shop Compass, and the new home of RecoveryAyr @48 - brilliant to catch up with so many compassionate and proactive people making a difference in South Ayrshire.
We also took time to acknowledge lives lost in South Ayrshire to drugs and alcohol after a walk along the River Ayr, a poignant reminder of why our work matters.
We are grateful and encouraged today and wish Compass and @48 all the very best💜

GIVE WHAT YOU'VE GOT
We have a team of around 30 volunteers, each bringing a range of skills, experience, care and commitment to the work we do and the people we meet.
Volunteering can benefit mental and physical health, giving you purpose and challenge. You can gain from volunteering by building confidence and social connection, skills and even qualifications.
Our amazing volunteers never fail to impress us with what they bring to RCT! Please get in touch if you'd like to know more.
Volunteer Friendly Award
Tunnock's

Fantastic daily Drop-In service where you can see a variety of services

Fiona & Davina will be at Riverside Community Trust Care and Share today, at 2pm. We look forward to seeing everyone 😀

💜💙CARE & SHARE Wednesdays at 2pm💙💜
People were asked: Why do you come to Care & Share? One said, 'Company, connection and good food'.
You can also access a variety of services to advise you with health, housing and recovery if you're looking for help. START - South Ayrshire Treatment and Recovery Team SeAscape Ayr Housing Aid Centre SCIO Intensive Peer Recovery Support ADP NHS A&A Oral Health Improvement Connect4Change Working For Wallacetown and more....
Come along and see us, there will always be someone to chat to. Perfect for a rainy summer's day?!

Our final event of the week is tomorrow.... Wallacetown Family Fun Day at Newton Primary 12pm to 3pm 😃🥳🥳🥳

Entertainment by The Gaiety and All Warriors Gym Ayr , face painting, bouncy castles, Hannahston Alpacas (12pm to 1pm), football activities, silent disco, colouring competition with £25 Smyths Toys Superstores vouchers for the winners, games galore, over 25 stalls, food and drink Domino's Pizza 🍕 and it's all free!!!

We do have a raffle (£1 a strip - cash only) with some fantastic prizes to raise funds for Wallacetown community. Prizes include...

Alpacas Experience 🦙
Ayr United FC tickets ⚽️
Afternoon tea at Fairfield Hotel
Morrisons
Jewellery from Cherry Soda
A Pickens and Sons Butchers and Bakers vouchers
Pet goodies from Vets for Pets

Huge thanks to our sponsors South Ayrshire Community Safety Partnership , Riverside Community Trust, The Gaiety and Barclays Bank

Also massive thanks to all services and volunteers who are contributing tomorrow.

Together we can make a difference. 💜

A brilliant family day out guaranteed, open to the public 😀

South Ayrshire Community Safety Partnership and Riverside Community Trust present the Wallacetown Family Fun Day - Newton Primary Saturday 3rd August 12pm to 3pm.

All welcome to attend a free family fun day next Saturday. Music and entertainment, fire and police vehicles, bouncy castles, alpacas, dominos pizzas, drinks and over 25 stalls with a wide range of activities. There will also be a colouring competition provided by Partners For Inclusion with 2x £25 vouchers for Smyths Toys Superstores to be won!

There will also be a raffle with some fantastic prizes which will be sold at £1 a strip. All funds raised through the raffle will be used to improve the Wallacetown green spaces.

Raffle prizes include;

£50 Voucher Hannahston Alpacas
Tickets to an Ayr United FC match
Afternoon Tea Voucher from RAD Group
1 Note Book Cherry Soda
1 Bracelet Set Cherry Soda
Dog Goodies courtesy of Vets for Pets
2x £10 Vouchers A Pickens and Sons Butchers

Schools may be closed right now but our Advisors are still in a number of locations throughout South Ayrshire to support you.

You don't need an appointment - just pop in to any of the locations below for help with;

Money advice from budgeting to bankruptcy
Find out what benefits you may be entitled to
Help to claim for those benefits, including form filling
Issues with your employer? We can give advice on employment law
Need help to get a job or have Housing problems? We can give advice and signpost you to the 100's of different services we work with for help!

Wallacetown Community Litter Pick - meet at Wallacetown EYC Queen St, Ayr KA8 0DW on Wednesday 31st July 930am to 12pm.

Our partners Barclays Bank, South Ayrshire Community Safety Partnership, Police Scotland Volunteers, Ayr United Football Academy, Ayrshire Housing and South Ayrshire Council Housing Services invite you to join them in a Community Litter Pick.

All residents are welcome to attend, equipment will be provided. There will be tea/coffee and refreshments.

Improve your wellbeing, and take care of the environment on your doorstep!

Together we can make a difference. 🚮❤️

Great to see the South Ayrshire Council Church Court Wildflower Project in full bloom. It makes such a difference adding colour and life in the area. More of this!! 🌻
Working For Wallacetown

Fiona & Davina will be at Riverside Community Trust Care and Share today at 2pm. Come and say hi & pick up your free oral health products 😃

What’s on today?

A great opportunity to visit HMP Barlinnie today with the team. Impressive skills and creativity being developed in wood/metalwork by people serving a sentence and great potential to have some of the products eventually in Wallacetown.

VOLUNTEER WEEK

Care & Share was established in 2008 and was build on a firm foundation of committed volunteers.
Volunteers continue to carry us each week - we have a team of people delivering at least 40 hours of volunteering per week and most of them have stuck with us for 5 years or more. There have literally been thousands of tea towels washed and ironed over the years!
THANK YOU to the people who give us the precious gift of their time to serve in a variety of roles - some obvious and some unseen.
It is an amazing demonstration of our values - loving people and doing the right things for the right reasons.

Wow! Amazing commitment from Stevie and from the team at RecoveryAyr. So many memories have been made here 💜

Excited to see Cafe Hope set up in your new home @48 on 21st June.

A fantastic opportunity to make a difference in a young person's life with Bfriend South Ayrshire

Our befrienders and their young people made the most of the glorious sunshine last weekend. Some even met up for a joint outing. We love seeing new friendships forming! These adventurous young people chose to go horse riding!

Would you like to learn more about becoming a befriender? Please get in touch to find out more.

www.bfriend.org.uk

Please consider if you can help ⬇️

⚠⚠PLEASE SHARE ⚠⚠

Good evening, tonight we are putting out an urgent call out for help to our amazing community. We have completely ran out of cooking items for our service users who are escaping homelessness 😢

We have created a wishlist (link below) on Amazon of the cheapest items we can find and wonder if anyone is in a position to help us out by purchasing any of the items? The delivery address is set to SeAscape by default.

We can also uplift any clean and working microwaves, air fryers, small table top hobs, or similar, if anyone has any they can donate. If you can email us on [email protected] and we will be in touch to organise an uplift.

Any shares of this post would be much appreciated 💙

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/3IFIU5WCEMS1W?ref_=wl_share

See below for RecoveryAyr activities

What’s on this week?

Check our Facebook stories each day to keep up to date with what we have on!

A chance to win £50 Shop Local voucher in the Wallacetown Hub on Friday 10am to 2pm!

Drop in, give your input on Employability opportunities in the area, find out about what Thriving Communities - Employability can offer you and you could win £50 voucher!

Free tea, coffee and cakes too! 😀☕️🍰

Open to the public, all welcome!

Absolutely amazing day rounding off a brilliant week 100s of people joined us as we walked through
People will never forget this day!

Saturday 20th April Wallacetown Community Arts Festival Finale at Ayr United FC Somerset Park 12pm to 3pm.

Static vehicle display

Army, Police Scotland Ayrshire, Scottish Fire and Rescue Service , South Ayrshire Council Housing Services Bin Lorry

Over 20 stalls with a variety of children's activities including beat the goalie, smoothie bike, arts/crafts, hook the duck, glitter tattoos, The Iris Ayr silent disco, children's entertainment and much more!!!

Stage with live music and entertainment by local artists including Scott Nicol, Katee Kross, Debbie Campbell Music Ukrainian Community Group (UCG) in South Ayrshire and pupils from St John's Primary and Newton Primary compered by the brilliant Ryan Hassan.

Hot dogs, snacks and drinks.

AND ITS ALL FREE!!!!!

Open to the public, come on down and celebrate the grand finale of the inaugural Wallacetown Community Arts Festival 2024!

🌟COME AND JOIN US🌟

What a week we've had so far. The has brought so many inspiring and meaningful moments we've been privileged to witness and be a part of - art, music, expression and growth.

We are so looking forward to celebrating with our community tomorrow.
We will be there with bells on 😁 (and hats...)

The Iris Ayr
Working For Wallacetown
Pearl Kinnear
Gaiety Creative Learning

Today our Writing Group, guided by Des Dillon, performed a couple of pieces they had written as part of the . Well done to all the writers and actors for bringing these special moments to their audience at Care & Share.

"You are doing just fine, be kind to yourself, be kind to your younger self, because I think despite everything, they would be so proud of the person you became, the person you are. They would marvel at your strength, at your vulnerability, they would champion your courage and most importantly they would treat you with compassion so why don't you do the same?"

What an important message for us to hear.

The Iris Ayr
Gaiety Creative Learning
Working For Wallacetown

Great to be part of the this week. Already an incredibly varied display of creativity, ideas and hope... and there's still a few days to go!!

This looks brilliant! 🎨
Check out the details below

Trust the process 🌈
Excited about the Wallacetown Community Arts Festival coming soon - 15th-20th April.
Work being done here in the background guided by Pearl Kinnear. We will definitely be putting the bright into
Working For Wallacetown