The North Carrick Community Benefit Company are holding a meeting
The meeting flier was put out on Facebook, and we reproduce it for those who’re not on Facebook or who may have missed it. It doesn’t appear on the NCCBC website.
Author: Neil Sinclair
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Kennedy Park – closed for three weekends!
Kennedy Park to have ‘sleeping policemen’
Kennedy Park will be closed to cars for the next three weekends to have speed bumps installed:
- April 11th to 12th
- April 18th to 18th
- April 25th
The entrance to the park will also be resurfaced.
Apologies for any inconvenience this may cause!
Picture courtesy of William Kerr.
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South Road
Resurfacing – at last!
Ayrshire Roads Alliance have notified the Community Council that they will resurface the south road into Dunure in two stages:
- 6th-20th July: from the harbour to the Coastal Path corner
- 20th July to 3rd August: Coastal Path corner to Dunure Mains and the main road.
We don’t yet know about what will happen to the chicanes on the road, which need to be re-located with a revised layout.
Thanks go to the Community Council for their sustained pressure and to Provost Iain Campbell for his support.
The intention is to have the works completed before the Festival of the Sea which takes place on Saturday 15th August, starting at 1:00 pm.
Watch this space for details on traffic flow and parking arrangements.
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Solid Fuel Stoves
The UK government is proposing limits on solid fuel stoves
The consultation period is near its end – 19th March is the final date.
To see the proposals visit this address: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/domestic-burning/consultation-on-solid-fuel-burning/
Proposals include:
- Strict limits on emissions from solid fuel fires and stoves
- Fines for breaching those limits
- Possible right of entry to your house to check emissions
- Checks every few years to ensure compliance
If you are not on the gas grid (Dunure has no mains gas) you may be dependent on solid fuel for your heating, or depend on it when oil is expensive. You may believe that the need to regulate stoves is greater in urban areas than rural, or that higher priority should be given to limiting pollution from toxic waste incinerators.
If you want to take part, the survey is at this address: https://consult.defra.gov.uk/domestic-burning/consultation-on-solid-fuel-burning/consultation/subpage.2026-01-13.3633732225/
The survey is only open until Thursday 19th March.
Have your say!
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Vets warning about fish hooks to dog owners
The Hospital for Small Animals have issued a warning
following a number of incidents where dogs have swallowed a fish hook.
Vets have warned that if a dog ingests a fish hook the owner shouldn’t either pull or cut the fishing line, nor try to remove the hook themselves. Always treat it as an emergency since the hook can cause terrible damage to the delicate internal organs of the dog.
Anglers should never discard hooks or leave baited hooks
where a dog can find them – for obvious reasons.You may think this is not a common problem – but it’s more common than you think.
There are hundreds of incidents per year with animals ingesting angling litter
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Dynamic Dunure update March 2026
We’ve had an update from Dynamic Dunure.
It appeared on the Dunure Facebook page on Monday (9th March).
It’s quite hard to read it there, so we’ve printed the text below.
This isn’t an updated Business Plan, which we were hoping for.
We ran the current business plan through an AI to see how it stands up: here is a summary of its conclusions.
- Estimated Year 1 financial shortfall once errors and questionable assumptions are corrected: up to £103,000. The true figure may be larger once insurance costs and realistic staffing rates are also applied.
- When the four arithmetical errors are aggregated, the total financial misstatement reaches approximately £60,793.
- The Venue Manager salary of £32,000 is likely to be insufficient to attract a candidate with the combined wedding coordination, events management, marketing, and commercial operations experience the role genuinely requires. The true market rate for this role is£35,000–£45,000. The plan should be remodelled with a realistic salary, which will further reduce the already narrow Year 1 surplus.
- The £12.00/hr rate used in the business plan is already below the National Living Wage (from April 2025: £12.21/hr). By the planned opening date of Spring 2027, the actual minimum wage is likely to be £12.60–£13.00/hr. This affects four posts (2 cleaners and 2 casual staff). The understatement of wage costs across these posts adds a further estimated £1,500–£2,700 per annum to projected operating costs, on top of the other errors already identified.
- The plan contains no insurance budget. The combined annual cost is likely to be in the range of £3,000–£6,000. This must be added to the operating budget as a fixed overhead, further eroding the already fragile Year 1 surplus.
We cordially offer an opportunity to Dynamic Dunure to answer these points, and we offer to print their response on these pages.
Given that South Ayrshire Council are on record saying that they cannot afford to subsidise community centres, it is alarmingly likely that after the first year the Helm will either be closed or sold to the private sector.
The village would then have no community centre at all.This is an important development for our village, and it needs frank and open debate both for and against.
AI Evaluation
Dynamic Dunure Update
p.s. The figure given by Dynamic Dunure for the contribution of South Ayrshire Council of £2 million is incorrect.
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Fisherton Church Final Service
The final service at Fisherton Church will be on Sunday 23rd March at 9:30.
The service will be one of Thanksgiving.
Members of the congregation of Fisherton will be welcome at Alloway and Fisherton Church for future worship.
We may hope to see the church visit us in future, celebrating the love of God in Dunure as has been a regular feature of Church life.If you wish to see video of Alloway and Fisherton Church services but you can’t attend in person, you can watch them through Steve Maw’s channel on YouTube.
