Author: Neil Sinclair
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One Unrealistic Assumption of Business Pointer’s report
Business Pointer get the bad news out of the way first. For the ‘Helm’ to make a profit there needs to be at least 300 customers per week from Dunure itself, added to the revenue from visitors to the centre. Let’s tease that out. Firstly, 300 per week is 43 per day. Over an 8…
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Architects set to make more than expected
There’s a large underestimate of the architects’ fees in the ‘business plan’. Costs are given to RIBA 3 for the development phase of the ‘Helm’ project, yet they are only give to RIBA 2 for the delivery phase (page 19). There’s an important difference between RIBA 2 and RIBA 3. RIBA is the Royal Institute…
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Why were Business Pointer chosen for the Business Plan?
Business Pointer haven’t been active as a company since 2013 according to their website, and their telephone number is out of use. According to Companies House, there is no business entity called Business Pointer registered as a company. So, more questions arise.
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Draft Business Plan for the ‘Helm’
This is the September 2024 final draft of the Business Plan. There are serious questions to ask about the details in the plan and the company who prepared it. The company recommended in the report as an example for the ‘Helm’ to follow is now in liquidation with debts of more than £4 million.
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Join our contemplative Sundown Service in the Harbour
Sundown Services This year’s sundown services will take place on July 20th and Aug 17th at 6:30 pm in Dunure. We hope as usual to be down at the harbour with the sun setting in the background. If the weather is inclement (perish the thought) we will hold our service in Fisherton Church As always…
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Interesting opportunities from new broadband
It seems that the OpenReach vans gathering around Dunure over the past few days are upgrading our phone lines. The villages of Dunure and Fisherton should have more reliable and faster connections to the phone and broadband networks. Information is difficult to find – Openreach (who do the cabling) have closed their phone helpline, and…
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Dunure’s heritage and The Culzean Way
The cultural heritage of Dunure is linked to the promising advantages of the Culzean Way in this article. Read about one of Scotland’s most important poets, albeit one of many who don’t get the recognition they deserve.
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A Gaelic-named garden plot in Ayr?
One of the Ayr Burgh Records for 1536-7 records* that one Thome Dalrimple had the few of Garotrodding in Ayr. Could this be for Gàradh Trodain ‘disputed garden’? Or are we looking at a Scots formation incorporating rodding ‘track’? There are plenty of Gaelic place-names within the old Ayr burgh boundaries (many more interesting Scots ones of course) and Gaelic…
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Alloway and Fisherton Church Newsletter
The Alloway and Fisherton Church Newsletter for June has been published. You may or may not know that the Church publishes videos of services. You can view the services at this page: Alloway and Fisherton Services. Philippians 4:8 Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is…