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Aberdeenshire Just Transition Participatory Budgeting Fund Voting Form


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1st Westhill Scout Group
1st Westhill Scouts 

Renewables Project (Solar)

£17,000.00
As we own our own building, the Scout Group in Westhill wants to move towards Net Zero with the instalation of Solar PV panels and battery storage.  This is the first phase of adopting renewable energy to reduce our carbon footprint.  Our Beavers Cubs and Scouts all want us to become greener, and the adults would like reduced fuel bills too!  Community groups who hire the hall will benefit with a resilient supply and from reduced bills.  The project will be a pilot to spread knowledge on how to improve community buildings.
ADHD Adventures
ADHD Adventures

Family Support Groups

£38,000.00

ADHD Adventures is a new and evolving service run by parents and professionals with lived experience of children with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). We provide inclusive support groups for children with a confirmed or potential diagnosis of ADHD, and their families across Aberdeenshire. We offer our experience, skills and listening ears. Receiving the funding for an electric van will allow us to travel all over Aberdeenshire with our resources enabling children with ADHD and their families to get together in a safe, non-judgemental space where they can make friendships, feel important and valued and celebrate their uniqueness.

Apex Church
Apex Church

Apex Church Community Vehicle

£50,000.00
To help people overcome social isolation by providing free low carbon transportation to our community events and deliver free food, donated furniture to people and families struggling with poverty in Peterhead and the Buchan area.
Banchory Community Trust 
Banchory Community Trust

Banchory Make and Mend

£1,348.00
We want more people in Banchory to have access to equipment that can help them mend clothes and fabric and make new items out of things they don't need any more. This will divert waste from landfill and save people money. We'd like to buy a heavy duty sewing machine, an overlocker and a precision cutting machine that we will lend to people in the community and use for workshops and open sessions to upskill people in Banchory.
Banchory Paths 
Banchory Paths

Accessible circular path in Corsee Woods

£15,077.60

Banchory Paths would like to upgrade core paths within the attractive forest environment of Corsee Woods into a high-quality walking and cycling loop that will last for many years. This will encourage a wider range of people, including young families, to walk more and enjoy nature, thereby improving physical and mental health for residents and visitors to the town. The upgraded paths will be fully disability compliant and provide traffic-free routes that link new housing developments at Inchmarlo, Upper Lochton and other parts of Banchory to the forest as well as the new and increasingly popular mountain bike trails.

Banff Academy
 Banff Academy Parent Council

Climate and Conservation Learning: restoring nature, installing photo posts in the community and learning about wind energy

£5,696.49
We want to install 6 Photo Posts in key locations in the community, and monitor changes in the landscape. We’ll do timelapse photography using the posts and carry out ecological surveys. We’ll share the photos and results with the community online so we can track progress together.
We’ll design and install the posts, so we’ll get hands-on building experience as well as learning opportunities in environmental science, digital technology and community engagement. We’ve also applied for wind turbine kits so we can learn about renewable energy and get a head start in skills of the future. Please support our learning!
Bettridge Centre
The Betridge Centre

Powering the Heart of Newtonhill

£49,307.70
Newtonhill Community Hall Association is the charity which runs the village’s Bettridge Centre. Please vote for us to get funding to install solar panels and batteries so we can stay at the heart of community life for many years to come. 

Generating our own electricity will mean we can keep our prices affordable, help us get to Net Zero and keep the lights on for the community in emergencies.

We help families stay in work; support older people to stay well in their homes for longer; and provide activities vital for our community’s physical and mental health.
Boyndie Trust
Boyndie Trust

Boyndie Visitor Centre Solar Panels

£21,055.46
This is a very simple but effective project to increase production of clean energy via photo-voltaic solar panels on the roof of Boyndie Visitor Centre. This will reduce both the building’s carbon footprint and its monthly running costs. The Boyndie Trust uses the centre as a key tool to deliver work-based skills development training for vulnerable adults and young people, maximising their potential in life and inclusion in our community. Money saved from reduced electricity bills will go directly into increasing the quantity and scope of this training, employing specialist staff and safeguarding services for the future.
Drumblade Parent Council
Drumblade Parent Council

Mini Windturbines

£950.62
This project is the completion of the children's own design to supply green energy to their outdoor classroom. It includes a teaching kit to inspire kids to think about green energy and what skills are needed - preparing them for a just transition, empowering them to take action for their own future.
Ellon and District Men's Shed
Ellon and District Mens Shed

Installation of Solar Panels and Battery System

£18,903.00
The installation of 10 solar panels and battery storage will allow the Ellon Men’s Shed to meet demand and expand, whilst reducing both energy costs and carbon footprint. The Shed aims to reduce the detrimental health impacts of loneliness, isolation and inactivity by providing a safe hobby and social space - with workshops, social areas and other facilities for members and the wider community.

We plan to increase our refurbishing and community support activities (eg. warm-space café and community education). The project can make this happen cost-effectively, whilst heading for Net-Zero.
It will be an exemplar solar project for Aberdeenshire.
Ellon Castle Gardens
Ellon Castle Gardens

Deer Park Cycling and Trishaw Facilities

£12,926.27
This project will support cycle travel for all ages and abilities in Ellon, reducing journeys made by polluting vehicles.
Secure bike racks and a bike repair station will be installed in our Deer Park alongside e-bike charging points powered by our solar panels, allowing cyclists from near and far to recharge for their onward journey.
A hugely popular trishaw, operated by “Cycling Without Age Scotland”, provides free tours of the town and Ellon Castle Gardens for residents of the local care homes. This grant will provide secure storage for the trishaw where it will be recharged by our solar panels.
Ellon Community Allotments
Ellon Community Allotments

Ellon Community Allotments Development

£49,780.00
We want to open a new community allotment space at Balmacassie, Ellon. Local people will be able to access 55 safe and secure fruit and vegetable growing plots and polytunnels. Participants will see benefits to their physical and mental health wellbeing.

We will contribute to achieving net zero by reducing food miles and convert an area of barren land into a biodiverse environment. In time there will be a greater variety of birds, butterflies and bees. Visitors will be able to enjoy a social area in the fresh air.

With your support we can start growing in 2025.
Feughside Community Association
Feughside Community Association

The Start of a Community Garden, Woodland and Wildflower Meadow in Strachan!

£12,314.45
This recently purchased, overgrown plot- including wildflower meadow & woodland - will provide a fantastic amenity in the heart of Strachan. With the help of Just Transition Funding, the site can be cleared and made safe, the paths better maintained, trees managed and equipment bought so that volunteers (of all ages and abilities) from our community can make a start on transforming the remaining plot into a beautiful wildlife friendly community garden. It is envisaged that Strachan Community Garden and Woodlands will become a recognised hub for outdoor learning and outdoor socialising for generations to come. 
Fraserburgh All Weather Sports Facility
Fraserburgh All weather sports facility

Fraserburgh All Weather Sports Facility New Floodlights

£44,411.76
To replace our existing floodlights with new LED floodlights to enhance our all weather facility and progress our journey to net zero. This will help to assure the sustainability of the Fraserburgh All Weather Sports Facility and continue to provide a community 4g pitch and changing facilities.
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre

Heritage and a more sustainable world

£49,140.00
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre, currently undergoing major reconstruction following catastrophic storm damage in 2021, is a popular recreational, educational and fun space, catering for all ages and interests. This remarkable resource preserves and promotes the area’s rich heritage, of which the wider community is justly proud. 

The Centre’s significant energy consumption does not align with the current climate change agenda. The proposed installation of sustainable solar panels will decrease operating costs and increase resilience.

Reduced overheads will secure this asset for the community in the long term, allowing income to be utilised for the introduction of new, and enhanced visitor experiences.
Inverurie Environmental Improvement Group
Inverurie Environmental Improvement

Battery Operated Watering System for Hanging Baskets

£2,161.00
Inverurie Environmental Improvement Group (IEI) provide floral displays in Inverurie Town Centre with their hanging baskets and planters.
As a way of reducing our carbon footprint IEI propose a more environmentally friendly way of watering the floral displays by installing a battery operated watering system in their Maxus eDeliver3 electric vehicle. This will also help to reduce the carbon emissions released into the atmosphere during the watering operation.
Inverallochy Golf Club
Inverallochy Golf Club

Low Energy Lighting

£11.350.86
Our project aims to install low-energy LED lighting throughout the clubhouse and sensor-activated lights in communal areas, significantly reducing energy consumption and our carbon footprint. We will also extend low-energy lighting externally to improve safety for the local community using the Golf Club as a walking thoroughfare. 

By enhancing energy efficiency, this project will lower electricity costs, increase sustainability, and build further on our goal of becoming a greener, more community-focused space. This initiative will not only benefit the club financially but also ensure a safer, eco-friendly environment for members, visitors and the local community using our facilities.
Inverurie Locos Works Football Club
Inverurie Locos

Upgrade to LED Floodlights

£18,760.00
Our project is to upgrade the existing LED floodlights at Harlaw Park to 300 Lux.
This upgrade will improve the match experience at night matches for all participating players and supporters.
Inverurie West Parish Church
Inverurie West Church

Keep the chill out, folk in, heat up and carbon down

£6,871.00
Help us create a warm, cosy and inviting space. The grant will be used to purchase and install eco-friendly, sustainable loft floor insulation to support our contribution to transitioning to net zero. This would be in the roof of the Sanctuary of Inverurie West Church; a space that offers worship, community activities, hospitality and a home for creative arts and events.
Meldrum Paths Group
Meldrum Paths Group

Paths Maintenance Project

£2,728.16
Meldrum Paths Group have been working with and for our community for many years. We strive to develop new walking, and wheeling routes such as the Meldrum Meg Way, which will link Oldmeldrum to Inverurie and Daviot, and to maintain existing routes such as the Coutens tracks and various other routes in and around Oldmeldrum. This equipment will really help us to maintain local paths and to keep the routes open for all users in our community. It will also allow us to offer volunteering opportunities for those who would like to get involved in this valuable and enjoyable work.
Mohanji Centre of Benevolence
Mohanji Centre of Benevolence

Natures Harmony Hub

£23,263.66
Nature's Harmony Hub will help transform Huntly into a thriving regenerative market garden! This project will revitalize 0.75 acres of land to grow free, fresh, and varied produce for our community, especially aiding those affected by the cost-of-living crisis. By embracing sustainable practices like permaculture and agroforestry, we'll enhance biodiversity, restore rare upland meadows, and reduce food miles. Open to everyone, the garden will be a living classroom for green skills development, fostering community spirit and resilience against climate change. Your vote supports local food equality, environmental stewardship, and a greener future for rural Aberdeenshire. 
Oakley ASN
Oakley

Inclusive Journeys for ASN

£35,445.00
We believe that every child and young person with Additional Support Needs (ASN) and disabilities in Aberdeenshire deserves access to the support they need. By purchasing a Citroën SpaceTourer Electric vehicle, we’ll provide eco-friendly, reliable transportation that helps families reach essential services, enjoy outings, and connect with our community. 
This project will help to provide a more inclusive and supportive environment where every child can thrive, and will be accessible to all families. In the long run, it will create a lasting legacy of accessibility and community spirit, ensuring brighter, more inclusive futures for all children and families with ASN
Oldmeldrum Green Growing Space (OGGS) 
Oldmeldrum Green Growing Space.

Growing for All - Accessibility Project

£18,065.19
OGGS will improve their facilities to include an accessible, zero water, toilet block, accessible parking spaces and raised growing beds. 
These changes will reduce our carbon footprint by reducing car journeys to and from our community growing spaces. 
This project will also allow us to offer a safe and inclusive space for members of our community who have impaired mobility, who suffer from chronic health conditions and our oldest and youngest members. 
These facilities will also allow us to offer access to local school and community groups to raise their awareness of growing your own! 
Peterhead FC Community Foundation
Peterhead FC Community Foundation

Energy Transition - Solar and Battery Storage Solutions

£50,000
The Project will reduce the carbon footprint of operations and our costs resulting in facilities being available to the community at as low a cost as possible to reduce inequalities to access and create a better quality of life for all within our community.
We are committed to play our part by showcasing best practice in sustainability, promoting, and inspiring our community to be part of Aberdeenshire region’s journey to Net Zero.
We want to use the project to increase awareness and understanding, stimulating discussion on sustainable solutions and encourage their replication throughout our community.
Portlethen Allotments
Portlethen Allotments

Bringing Allotments to Portlethen

£25,843.00
People growing and consuming their own fruit and vegetables are the essential ideals to improving our society as a whole. Our flora and fauna challenges along with the environment, climate and man made factors are pressurising our ecological systems beyond anything we have experienced. It is now essential that we bring self sufficiency to a whole new audience, by teaching, sharing and experiencing new skills, for the next generation to prosper in an uncertain world where are very survival is key to nurturing and keeping healthy the very ground beneath our feet.
Portsoy Community Enterprise
Portsoy Community Enterprise

Make Portsoy's Historic Museum Warm Again! 

£32,000.00
Dating back to 1834, the Portsoy Salmon Bothy is a museum, community space and venue. Unfortunately, our volunteers can’t extend their usual warm welcome to our visitors, as our boiler is broken. Without adequate heating, our historic displays and artefacts risk being destroyed.
The building is damp and our old roof and walls have inadequate insulation to retain heat and keep people cosy.

With this grant, we will install a Ground Source Heat Pump and reduce our carbon footprint by installing more energy efficient measures. Please vote for us to help keep the bothy open and Portsoy’s maritime heritage alive.
Rainbow Rogues
Rainbow Rogues

Sustainable Community Garden Project

£8,917.00
Sustainable Community Garden Project will create a community garden where children and families can learn about growing fruits, vegetables, and wildflowers, while fostering environmental awareness through hands-on activities. By promoting sustainability, this project will enhance social inclusion, reduce isolation, and empower families to adopt greener practices.
Scottish Sculpture Workshop
Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Electric vehicles at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)

£30,606.00

SSW is a making space for artists and our local community to come together, learn new skills and access a wide range of making in clay, metal and stone. We also support a thriving Community Making Space offering hundreds of free making sessions, kids holiday clubs and community celebrations each year.

We are working to become net zero over the next decade and will use these funds to transition from our unreliable 40 year old, diesel forklift to a new, highly efficient, electric forklift and an electric charging point for vehicles. The forklift is vital to us and will be used daily - it enables us to move materials across the site, take deliveries of stock and set up spaces ready for activity. This will also reduce emissions by 50%, extend the usage of electrical vehicles locally, create a healthier environment for our team and users and enable us to move more materials between our spaces - extending the use of our space for community activity. 


SensationALL
Sensationall

SensationALL Survival

£17,077.20
Increasing energy costs and pressures have left us in a desperate need to upgrade and replace our costly and inefficient heating system at our 125 year Old Schoolhouse!

Please vote and help us realise this significant project not only to provide a warm, welcoming facility for families and individuals with complex needs, but to aid us in meeting our environmental aims and offsetting a significant amount of carbon emissions!

Immediate benefit in estimated savings will then be reassigned to help the charity continue to realise its mission and create new groups for neurodivergent individuals of all ages and stages!
Sheltered Housing Tenants Forum
Tenants Forum

Sheltered Housing Community Greenhouses

£39,520.80
Eight of our Sheltered Housing Schemes in Aberdeenshire hope to purchase a Greenhouse. This opportunity would allow some of our 'green 'fingered' tenants to further hone their skills and educate others in nurturing plant life from seed to edible produce for all to share.
To produce organic fruit and vegetables not only has health benefits it also provides an enjoyable activity which results in less food waste, food packaging and carbon emissions.
A great opportunity for our experienced generation to educate our young on the importance of eating well whilst caring for our planet.
St Kane's ELCC
St Kane's

St Kane's Eco project

£4,500,00
This project is to ensure that the children are learning about the world of recycling and sustainability. By purchasing recycled planters, the children can see where their recycling can end up and what can be made from it.
The children will grow their own vegetables from start to finish and be able to see first hand how it is done.
By purchasing the tote bags for life, this ensures that every child that we have in the session and years to come can have their own bag to use for school then, then after for their own leisure.
Strichen Community Park Company
Strichen Community Park

Strichen Community Park paths, training, wheel chair provision

£41,044.56
Strichen Community Park facilities have been created over the last quarter century for the benefit of visitors form the whole of the North East of Scotland. We now wish to improve the remaining narrow paths to provide safer and easier access for all visitors including wheel chair users.
It is proposed to provide an electric powered mobility scooter for the use of visitors who are unable to make full use of our path network.
Strichen Town House Trust
Strichen Townhouse

Strichen Town House Project part 3

£45,000.00
Strichen Community took over the Town House in 2016 with the Strichen Town House Trust SCIO being created to manage the renovation and improvement of the Town House in 2019.
Funding is in place to make the building wind and water tight. The roof was re-slated in Winter 2023-24, the windows and Upper Hall will be repaired, insulated, plaster-boarded and historic features re-instated this Autumn/Winter.
This Project seeks funding to insulate the Ground Floor Hall, Entrance Hall and Wash Room, update the Wash Room fittings, repair the Tower stairwell plasterwork, fit LED lights and redecorate these areas.
The Banffshire Partnership Ltd
The Banffshire Partnership

Dial-A-Bus Minibus

£50,000.00
The Dial-A-Bus service, plus our new services addressing local poverty, inability to access services, rural isolation and helping local families in times of crisis, all rely upon our minibus fleet and fabulous staff. With a new multi-function accessible minibus, we can maximise passenger transport and delivery of essential items, with a reliable and less polluting new vehicle, that will be cheaper to run. This application will help us future-proof our services and keep them sustainable for the benefit of our community.
The Barn
The Barn

A warmer welcome for audiences and communities

£11,500.00
To restore the Barn’s beautiful visitor entrance by replacing degrading timber window frames to energy efficient steel. Supporting this project means reducing heat loss and lowering carbon emissions, whilst preserving cultural heritage. Your vote will help protect a community space for future generations!
The Forge Banff
The Forge.jpg The Forge.

The Forge Banff 

£19,260.00
The Forge CIC will provide a much needed, inclusive and dynamic creative space in the heart of Banff to benefit all ages across the community. Our successful programme of thirteen events this year included eco-markets, freecycle days, spoken word, family art, storytelling and leisure activities. With an all-weather building the offer can expand significantly to regular creative arts and leisure activities, including tailored sessions for young people and vulnerable adults. Our programming will provide essential opportunities for individuals to enjoy fun, safe and social interactions, and will build a legacy of creative skills-development currently unavailable in Banff and Macduff.
Tyred n Cranky CIC
Tyred n Cranky

Pop-up mobile cycling services

£48,000.00
We bring mobile pop-up cycling activities to your communities, from pop-up bike shops, portable bike skills track, learn to to ride training, bike maintenance, bike hire, Dr Bike, and Free Bikes for young people, to name but a few. We can reach more communities and more people by being mobile, empowering you to be more active, and to be able to choose to travel actively, helping to break down barriers. Vote for us to enable our amazing service to reduce our carbon footprint further, and continue to bring these amazing services to you.

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1st Westhill Scout Group
1st Westhill Scouts 

Renewables Project (Solar)

£17,000.00
ADHD Adventures
ADHD Adventures

Family Support Groups

£38,000.00
Apex Church
Apex Church

Apex Church Community Vehicle

£50,000.00
Banchory Community Trust 
Banchory Community Trust

Banchory Make and Mend

£1,348.00
Banchory Paths 
Banchory Paths

Accessible circular path in Corsee Woods

£15,077.60
Banff Academy
 Banff Academy Parent Council

Climate and Conservation Learning: restoring nature, installing photo posts in the community and learning about wind energy

£5,696.49
Bettridge Centre
The Betridge Centre

Powering the Heart of Newtonhill

£49,307.70
Boyndie Trust
Boyndie Trust

Boyndie Visitor Centre Solar Panels

£21,055.46
Drumblade Parent Council
Drumblade Parent Council

Mini Windturbines

£950.62
Ellon and District Men's Shed
Ellon and District Mens Shed

Installation of Solar Panels and Battery System

£18,903.00
Ellon Castle Gardens
Ellon Castle Gardens

Deer Park Cycling and Trishaw Facilities

£12,926.27
Ellon Community Allotments
Ellon Community Allotments

Ellon Community Allotments Development

£49,780.00
Feughside Community Association
Feughside Community Association

The Start of a Community Garden, Woodland and Wildflower Meadow in Strachan!

£12,314.45
Fraserburgh All Weather Sports Facility
Fraserburgh All weather sports facility

Fraserburgh All Weather Sports Facility New Floodlights

£44,411.76
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
Fraserburgh Heritage Centre

Heritage and a more sustainable world

£49,140.00
Inverallochy Golf Club
Inverallochy Golf Club

Low Energy Lighting

£11.350.86
Inverurie Environmental Improvement Group
Inverurie Environmental Improvement

Battery Operated Watering System for Hanging Baskets

£2,161.00
Inverurie West Parish Church
Inverurie West Church

Keep the chill out, folk in, heat up and carbon down

£6,871.00
Inverurie Locos Works Football Club
Inverurie Locos

Upgrade to LED Floodlights

£18,760.00
Meldrum Paths Group
Meldrum Paths Group

Paths Maintenance Project

£2,728.16
Mohanji Centre of Benevolence
Mohanji Centre of Benevolence
Natures Harmony Hub

£23,263.66
Oakley ASN
Oakley

Inclusive Journeys for ASN

£35,445.00
Oldmeldrum Green Growing Space (OGGS) 
Oldmeldrum Green Growing Space.

Growing for All - Accessibility Project

£18,065.19
Peterhead FC Community Foundation
Peterhead FC Community Foundation

Energy Transition - Solar and Battery Storage Solutions

£50,000
Portlethen Allotments
Portlethen Allotments

Bringing Allotments to Portlethen

£25,843.00
Portsoy Community Enterprise
Portsoy Community Enterprise

Make Portsoy's Historic Museum Warm Again! 

£32,000.00
Rainbow Rogues
Rainbow Rogues

Sustainable Community Garden Project

£8,917.00
Scottish sculpture Workshop
Scottish Sculpture Workshop

Electric vehicles at Scottish Sculpture Workshop (SSW)


£30,606.00
SensationALL
Sensationall

SensationALL Survival

£17,077.20
Sheltered Housing Tenants Forum
Tenants Forum
Sheltered Housing Community Greenhouses

£39,520.80
St Kanes ELCC
St Kane's

St Kanes Eco project

£4,500,00
Strichen Community Park Company
Strichen Community Park

Strichen Community Park paths, training, wheel chair provision

£41,044.56
Strichen Town House Trust
Strichen Townhouse

Strichen Town House Project part 3

£45,000.00
The Banffshire Partnership Ltd
The Banffshire Partnership

Dial-A-Bus Minibus

£50,000.00
The Barn
The Barn

A warmer welcome for audiences and communities

£11,500.00
The Forge Banff
The Forge.jpg The Forge.

The Forge Banff 

£19,260.00
Tyred n Cranky CIC
Tyred n Cranky

Pop-up mobile cycling services

£48,000.00

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