Carrick Rugby Football Club - Access to Community Sport

Name of organisation/business:

Carrick Rugby Football Club

Funding:

£6111.12 - Community Led local Development - Ayrshire Rural and Islands Ambition (ARIA) – Small Capital Fund (2022/23)

Scottish Rural Development Programme priority:

Supporting rural communities

        Contact details: 
Sommerville Pavilion
Glebe Park
Maybole
South Ayrshire
KA19 7HZ
No Post Box - carrickrugby@gmail.com

Website:

Carrick Rugby

Twitter profile page:

Carrick RFC

Facebook page:

Carrick RFC

Location

The fund is helping to support transport costs and reduce our carbon footprint. The cost of transport has risen hugely over the past year, the funding is allowing us to offer increased access to sport by providing subsidised transport.
Quote source:
Anna Connon

Carrick Rugby Football Club are constantly engaging with their local community, which includes team players, parents, supporters, committee members, trustees and sponsors.

Having centralised club transport means that all the volunteers from both on and off the pitch can travel together, increasing the feeling of community and giving the club a very high retention rate of volunteers across the board. Funding is helping to support the transport costs and reduce the clubs carbon footprint.

The funding forms part of the Scottish Government Community Led Local Development (CLLD) funding allocation to the Ayshire Local Action Group (LAG). The LAG is a group of representatives from the local area so its decision making is bottom up. With this funding, the LAG runs the Ayrshire Rural and Islands Ambition (ARIA) Fund, which is administered by South Ayrshire Council. Additionally, a Fund Co-ordinator supports the applicant through the process to assist and help with any concerns or questions.

ACCESS THE CASE STUDY HERE

You can find out more about the ARIA fund including Eligible Areas and Indicative Key Dates here