TranslateCharging structure at April 2025.
Charges are per hour based on category of use.
Free of charge category: 100% subsidy
Commercial ventures/profit activities. Restricted to the description below.
- Community Learning and Development adult and youth programmed learning, includes Duke of Edinburgh (free when building already in use or keyholding)
- Community Council meetings (restricted to 15 per annum)
- Registrar ceremonies (Kilbirnie Library)
- pupil support
Category two: £24.85
Commercial ventures/profit activities.
- commercial traders
- car boot sale, tabletop sale, commercial ticketed music and drama performances
Category three: £8.10
Adult voluntary groups, sports groups, Community Festivals and events and Charitable fundraising activities (unlicensed). Agency, Government and North Ayrshire Council services.
- North Ayrshire Council departments
- religious/spiritual groups
- social enterprises (non- commercial business)
- adult leisure activities, meetings, community development meetings, training and presentations
- non-licensed community festivals and events
- North Ayrshire Leisure (NAL), NHS, Police,
- Housing Association, Government Agencies, Job Centre Plus
- Councillor surgeries, MP’s/Trade Unions, for example: GMB, Unison, Unite
Category four: £3.60
Early Years groups, Youth Groups and Uniformed Organisations. (Membership restricted to under 18). Bookings catering for a person(s) with a disability, Senior Citizens and organisations who exist only for a charitable cause.
- health support groups/sensory impairment
- non-profit alcohol and drug support groups
- youth uniformed organisations such as Boys Brigade, Guides and Cadets
- youth voluntary such as dance classes, karate and martial arts not for self-gain
- mother and toddlers and other community childcare
- Constituted child/youth activities Youth Theatre/Arts
- Opportunities in Retirement (OIR), non-profit weight management, food poverty groups
- elderly forums
- Red Cross/Marie Curie Cancer Care and any others of this nature
- association/social enterprise
Several of our libraries have community rooms which vary in size, please contact librarysupport@north-ayrshire.gov.uk for more information.