by charlie | Jan 17, 2024
The Ayrshire Coastal Path Management Board would like to extend a huge THANK YOU to the Rotary Club of Ayr for their generous donation of £500 which will allow us to get moving with a big website upgrade we have been hoping to complete for a number of years now! Ayr Rotary Club founded the Ayrshire Coastal Path to celebrate 100 years of Rotary International in 2005, and managed the trail until 2019 when an independent Management Board was established. As this latest grant demonstrates, they are still strong supporters of the Path: as well as their generosity with funding, a good number of Rotarians are still active members of the Board or volunteering with us as Pathminders. We will keep you posted with updates on our journey towards a shiny new website… Watch this...
by charlie | Sep 10, 2023
There’s now a new way to help the Ayrshire Coastal Path raise funds without spending a single penny. We’ve registered with easyfundraising, which means over 7,000 brands will now donate to us for free every time you use easyfundraising to shop with them. Brands such as Ebay, Asda, Tesco, Etsy and many more donate to us when you shop with them online with no extra cost to yourself. These donations will help us continue to maintain the Ayrshire Coastal Path and we’d really appreciate it if you could take a moment to sign up and support us. It’s completely FREE for you and only takes a moment. As the name suggests it’s easy to use: Register at https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/…/ayrshire-coastal…/ (it’s free, all you need to give is your name and email address) When you shop online, check the Easyfundraising website or app for any donations that might be available from that retailer Or install the browser extension so that a reminder will pop up automatically every time you shop online at a brand which uses easyfundraising Thank you for supporting the Ayrshire Coastal...
by charlie | Apr 13, 2023
Ayr Rotary have just donated £250 to help with Path development, specifically to buy two metal gates for a recent project at Drumshang. Along with two donations from local rambler groups, this extra money has allowed us to complete the important job of bridge replacement. The new bridge can now carry the quad bike and flail mower which local farmer Angus Craig kindly uses to keep the grass on the path well mown, saving the Pathminders many hours hard work with hand equipment. The ACP was originally an Ayr Rotary project, but was so successful it had to be hived off and is now a stand alone Community Group, run by a board of management. Many Rotarians are still involved, but the ACP require to find their own funding. Donations like this make a real difference to what the ACP can achieve in terms of Path...
by charlie | Mar 26, 2023
Ayr & District Rambling Club have recently made a sizeable donation to the Ayrshire Coastal Path. This will allow us to continue our maintenance and development programme. Trail Manager Jimmy Begg commented: “We are well aware that ADRC use and enjoy the path a lot – having encountered small and large groups of members tramping a section on which we were doing maintenance work – and receiving smiles and their grateful thanks for what we so. And this is ‘mothers’ milk’ to our Pathminders – as we in turn appreciate the fact that now, no matter where or when we are out working on a winter project or routine summer strimming, we invariably encounter walkers on the Path – a sign that our vision and all our hard work over the past fifteen years is bearing fruit in abundance. Jimmy continued: “It is too difficult to be specific on what this magnificent cheque will be spent on, since ‘maintenance’ covers things like biannual servicing of our mower and brushcutters, and some of the fuel costs incurred with distant projects at Glenapp or Knock Hill, Largs; or purchasing new plastic marker posts and postcrete; and just now, some new hand tools and other kit for our equipment stock – to save on borrowing those of our Pathminders. A current project of replacing a bridge at Drumshang, which was inadequate to carry the quad bike and flail machine required for maintaing the path, required some purchased materials, although as usual we use recycled sleepers and gather local stones to form the abutments. We also have a programe of replacing old signage,...
