Welcome

Ailsa Horizons Ltd is a social enterprise and a charity established to build on the experience and track record gained since 2002 when we were set up as 'Girvan Horizons' - a Social Inclusion Partnership project. We are the rural regeneration company for South Ayrshire and we run a range of projects and offer services to community groups, social enterprises, and public and private sector organisations.

Services include:

• Project development and management
• Business planning
• Support to access funding
• Training
• Community engagement and capacity building
• Administration of funds

Core business for 2009 – 2010 was to implement the “Enterprising Communities” project. Grant funding for this comes from Leader, South Ayrshire Council, and the local Horizons group. The project helped 6 communities to assess their needs and aspirations and to produce action plans for the development of their villages.

During 2011-13 the company will focus on 4 broad areas of activity:

1. supporting strategic community groups
2. developing and implementing a rural skills programme
3. facilitating a business support programme
4. building capacity at village level

At the same time, we are working to reduce Ailsa Horizons' dependency on grant funding by taking on commercial contracts and by creating profit making subsidiaries.

The rest of this site provides more information on what we do. Please contact us if we can help with your project or business