Music in the Community: Hopefully, many of you were able to make it along to the superb concerts held in the Aytoun Hall recently or the Picturehouse. Both were examples of amazing partnerships between the school and the community – with Friends of Aytoun Hall and the Picturehouse providing opportunities for the young people to showcase their talents in a way that brought great entertainment to hundreds of people. Thanks to all who were involved.
Local Funding Opportunity: Fairer Communities
PKC has streamlined a couple of funds to better incorporate community input into how these resources are allocated. Throughout the summer, PKC communities will have the opportunity to share their priorities.
Alongside this consultation, PKC aims to establish a local steering group, ideally composed of members representing each theme in the survey. This group will review community feedback from surveys and explore how this input can be translated into positive projects. These projects will then be linked with established community groups. For instance, if residents desire more vibrant high streets, the steering group could speak with Bloom to explore their ideas about this and what funding would make this possible – for Auchterarder Bloom it might be a tool to make watering easier as this is a big undertaking throughout the summer. Similarly, if more benches are desired, perhaps Men’s Shed might wish to be involved with funding provided for materials or ACSR might know of a great way to explore this as they’ve already responded to community wishes for places to sit already!
£16K has been allocated to the Strathallan area. Its all about little projects which make a big difference, ensuring these initiatives are directly responsive to community needs. Therefore, if you believe it’s crucial for the community’s voice to be heard in how funds are spent, your participation is important! Surveys can be found in the library in Auchterarder and also online – this will be shared on the A&A Connected Website and FB page plus the digital boards in Auchterarder. The posters contain the detail of how to contact James if you’d like more information too!
Kincardine Fields: The valuation of this land took place last week. We’re looking forward to receiving the report on the valuation shortly.
Library: We had a great meeting in the library with a lot of ideas discussed about how more people could be encouraged to use our library. It’s a wonderful space and CPK are creating an “Action Plan” around this. If you have ideas of what you’d like to see please do share these either with me or with CPK. There will be a CPK meeting about the future library action plan. It will be on the 23rd of July at 6pm in the library. Everyone most welcome – the theme is talking positively about future ideas.
Biodiversity Town: A novel event is being held in the library on Saturday to mark Meadows day. Its an annual celebration of these glorious natural environments which are sadly in decline. See posters for details of the event.
Bat Walk: Would you like to learn more about our little nocturnal friends? Jean Oudney is coming to Auchterarder (Kincardine Road Park) at 9.30pm and will share a short fascinating talk about bats before taking a walk to spot and identify. There are a small supply of detectors available to borrow too.
Bat and Swift Boxes: Have you got space on your home or in your garden to invite bats or swifts? We can link you up with being able to get beautiful sturdy bat and swift boxes with no charge.
The Annual Horticultural Show is coming up (30th August) Its a lot of fun to enter something and there are options for everyone – pick up a schedule in the library.
Young Peoples Summer events:
Lots happening over the summer, click HERE for more information. You’ll find posters here for the wonderful Picturehouse Crew Book Festival on the 27th of July. This sounds like its going to be a lot of fun, please do share this if you have a little person who’d enjoy.
Coming Soon:
In Autumn, we’re delighted to share that Remake will be coming to Auchterarder to help us learn more about sewing and also to provide a series of sessions in the Library, crafting with recycled materials. Dates and detail to follow.
And finally, don’t forget about Auchtoberfest! If you’d like to secure your tickets now, you can do so via this link. It’s a fantastic event with a great variety of locally sourced beers and a fun afternoon! 25th October Aytoun Hall 2pm – 7pm.
