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£204,000 for communities - you voted, we listened!

Shaping North Ayrshire PB results are in leaflet

North Ayrshire Council would like to share its thanks to residents across our six localities who recently voted in our latest Participatory Budgeting (PB) round.

Since the deadline in mid-November, the Connected Communities team has worked tirelessly to verify and count the votes. The team are now delighted to now announce that more than 200 community groups and projects have been successful in receiving their share of £204,159 funding.

Community groups from across North Ayrshire bid for funding from the three PB pots:

  • Locality PB: Health and Wellbeing, Building Community Spirit, Cost of Living, Green Projects
  • Youth PB: Green Projects, Health and Wellbeing, Young People’s Voice and Rights, Equality and Diversity and Cost of Living
  • Community Wealth Building Fund: Community Ownership, Enterprising Communities and Local Innovation

Voting was predominately completed online, with pupils across North Ayrshire schools voting in school using their Young Scot Card or special logins for younger pupils. Paper votes were also submitted by the public via libraries.

The successful community projects and groups from Arran, Garnock Valley, Irvine, Kilwinning, North Coast and Cumbraes and the Three Towns have since been informed of the good news.

To view all of the successful projects and learn how the funding will benefit the groups, visit the Shaping North Ayrshire website.

Quote: Participatory budgeting is citizen participation at its grassroots. It is one of the key ways that the Council is enabling local people to make decisions on how we can address inequalities. It is based on an ethos of ‘it’s your money, you decide’… Our residents know better than anyone else which projects are going to be the most beneficial to them in their local communities, so it was only fair that we gave communities a direct say on how money from the PB funds would be best spent. Opening to the public vote ensured that everyone had the power to weigh up their options and decide upon what was going to make the most impact locally for their area. You voted and we listened, now the successfully funded groups can move forward in their own aspirations and look with positivity towards 2026. Congratulations to the recipients and thank you to everyone involved.

Quote from: Councillor Alan Hill, Cabinet Member for Communities, Housing and Islands

£30k of the overall PB budget has come from the Community Wealth Building Fund and shared across North Ayrshire. With an aim to help community projects and organisations to make a positive difference in their communities, NAC’s Participatory Budgeting process has proven hugely successful since first being rolled out in 2016.

Full PB funding results are as follows:

2025 Community Wealth Building Fund: A total of £30,000 was awarded to 19 groups, see the CWB Results on the Shaping North Ayrshire website.

To find out more projects that have been successful in previous funding cycles, check out the archive on the Shaping North Ayrshire website.

Published: 01 December 2025

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