Tag: Heritage Lottery Fund

  • Questions for Dynamic Dunure

    Your accounts add up to a surplus of £69,474.00 –

    So why are you borrowing money from other local charities to fund a bid? Why do you need a crowdfunder?

    Where has the money gone?

    How can you justify spending £290,000

    On ‘Community and public engagement activities’ when there has been not a single written item of feedback from your consultations so far?

    South Ayrshire Councillors are on record that they want social enterprises to run like businesses –

    Have you found a single Community Centre that runs on operating income only, as you propose for the Helm?

    A visitor centre very like the proposed Helm was built for £4 million.

    It too was based on optimistic visitor numbers. It has now failed and the land was sold on for £150,000 for housing development.

    That centre was built despite concerns from the community about its business plan and what would happen if it closed.

    Similar concerns are being raised now about the Helm. What is your answer to these concerns?

    How do you communicate with the community?

    You have a website with no meaningful content, you have no facebook page, you don’t publish notice of meetings, you don’t publish minutes, and your newsletters are so poorly written as to be incomprehensible.

    Fisherton Church was highlighted for its potential at your meeting in 2022

    Why did you not consider it further?

    You could have bought it for the price of the ‘Community and public engagement activities’!

  • Dunure Community Council Minutes March 2026

  • Dynamic Dunure update March 2026

    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.

    Our initial analysis of the Business Plan has been revised, and will be shared with the community as soon as possible.

    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.


    Dynamic Dunure Update


    p.s. The figure given by Dynamic Dunure for the contribution of South Ayrshire Council of £2 million is incorrect.
    The correct figure is in fact nearer to £3 million (Community Council minutes of November 2025).

  • Dunure Community Council Minutes 16th September 2025

  • Dynamic Dunure Call for Positive Comments

    Dynamic Dunure have published a newsletter calling for positive comments on their proposal for the ‘Helm’.

    It is interesting that the choice was made to seek only positive comments.

    Dynamic Dunure claim to reflect the views of Dunure and Fisherton, the ‘will of the people’, yet it seems they are only interested in views which reflect their own. This is not reflecting the views of the village, it is filtering out alternative viewpoints.

    Judge for yourself.

    Remember, this is a £5 million project, with nearly £1 million in consultation fees alone.

    I have asked on numerous occasions for the minutes of Dynamic Dunure meetings, and been met repeatedly with silence.

    Likewise, I have asked for results of surveys carried out and the questions asked: again I’ve been answered with silence.

    It is difficult to reconcile claims that Dynamic Dunure reflect the views of local people when they routinely refuse to publish minutes of meetings and filter comments from the public to suppress free commentary on their proposals.

    It is the view of this site that everyone has a right to their opinion, to express that opinion, and to have their views known without hindrance.

    It’s called democracy.

  • Dunure Community Council Minutes 21st April 2025

    Minutes of the Community Council meeting which preceded the AGM. They were approved at the Community Council meeting following the AGM.

  • Dynamic Dunure Public Meeting November 2022

    Minutes of meeting held on 15th November 2022.

    I had to trawl through Facebook to find these minutes: these are the only ones I could find.

    The first file is the minutes as seen on Facebook, the second those same minutes tidied up on the computer.