Kirkcowan – What's Going On?

CAP – Pilot Survey – Resilience

  • Public noticeboard
  • Winter fuel payments every year but should be backdated.
  • Employ masseur, residents pay a subsidized fee. Improve health for residents.
  • Concerts: Contact Aaron who does the NS folk week in July and get names of local artists for concerts. Residents get subsidized entry.
  • Winter fuel payment paid every year to each household making it that everyone in the community can benefit from the windmill funding.
  • Did spaces.
  • Extra carer employed by KCDT to look after our elderly
  • Look at how other villages have managed funds well good/bad
  • Walks/rambles music events
  • Litter picking
  • Wildlife/bird hides
  • Renovated halls, 2 hot meals a week open to everyone or delivered.
  • Inclusivity all ages not just the young/elderly
  • Improved walks in the local area
  • Winter fuel payment to be had every year!
  • Cyber centre/café technology available for public use (time session)
  • Walks in and around Kirkcowan walking booklet
  • Community gym in hall also chill out zone for older kids/teenagers
  • Did every house get a form to fill in for winter fuel payment
  • Baby/kiddy gym classes. Helping mums get back in shape with kids there too. Mental and physical health
  • Rustic cabin in Dickie wood faring west to see sun sets
  • Village hall: Sustainable heating – biomass solar panels on roof for water and f or feeding into grid. Both biomass heating + solar power will generate funds for the community. Cladding insulation outside double glazed windows.
  • Sheltered housing so residents can safely stay in their own village.
  • Activities for elderly on weekly basis.
  • Musical events indoors or outside gatherings & get together park or village hall.
  • More planting everywhere! Fruit trees, bushes, planters, window boxes, borders.
  • Coffee & chat afternoons with district nurse, physio etc. Monthly calendar events.
  • Deal with social isolation and loneliness
  • Drop in weekly in hall just coffee and chat
  • Group making things from people’s junk and sold within village to benefit village.
  • Who makes final decision on any projects
  • Exercise for all, garden group. Do planters by village and signs, Community café
  • Men’s shed for repair & build project + salvage/swap yard to re-use unwanted furniture materials etc
  • Transparency and awareness to all
  • When anyone in the village turns 17 voucher for driving theory test
  • Safeguard the facilities we have and improve them where possible