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Read our Connecting Communities in Aberdeen booklet!
Read our 2024 ACVO booklet featuring our highlights from the past year Read the booklet online now at acvo.org.uk/connect As the ACVO Team wind down for the upcoming festive break, we would like to share our Connecting Communities in Aberdeen booklet...
Aberdeen’s Trades Widows’ Fund Charity Surpasses £1 million Milestone
Aberdeen charity, the Trades Widows’ Fund Charity, celebrated a major milestone yesterday (Wednesday, December 18th) having donated more than £1 million to local groups and charities. The charity marked the occasion with an event at Trinity Hall, the home of The...
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Aberdeenshire’s Head of Education Joins Aberdeen Science Centre Board
The head of education at Aberdeenshire Council has been appointed to the board of Aberdeen Science Centre. Laurence Findlay, who is director of Education and Children's Services at Aberdeenshire Council, will bring many years of experience in the field...
Scotland’s Festival of Light SPECTRA returns with spectacular new programme in 2023
SPECTRA, Aberdeen’s multi award-winning festival of light and sound, returns to light up the Granite City from Thursday 9 – Sunday 12 February 2023. The festival brings a spectacular programme of free works by some of the world’s leading visual artists, studios and...
NHS Grampian Endowment Fund has announced the launch of the latest round of its Community Grants Programme
The Endowment Fund, which is the official charity of NHS Grampian, launched its funding programme in 2020 to encourage community-based health and wellbeing initiatives across the North-east. The programme provides grants of up to £10,000 to local charities and...
Christmas comes early for North-east charities
Piper Sandler’s Sportschallenge hands over £75,000 to local beneficiaries. Funds totalling over £75,000, raised during Piper Sandler’s Sportschallenge event, are being donated to five Scottish charities this week. The money raised during the North-east’s premier...
Streetsport volunteer shortlisted as Unsung Hero at BBC Sports Personality of the Year
A long-term Streetsport volunteer from Aberdeen has been nominated as a finalist for this year’s Unsung Hero award at the 2022 BBC Sports Personality of the Year. Dave Thompson, 54, is a regular volunteer at both Streetsport, the flagship programme...
Leading energy services company, GEOLOG, announces partnership with local charity, Befriend a Child, this Christmas
International oil and gas company GEOLOG have announced their choice of charity to support in the UK as Aberdeen based organisation Befriend a Child, who help local children and young people living in difficult life circumstances through their befriending and...
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