First Aid Awareness Event - Interested?

The Community Council are considering organising a 2 hour first aid awareness event for staff associated with local businesses. 

The Community Council recognise that there is a large elderly demographic group in the area.  The purpose of this event is to give attendees a basic awareness of how to recognise, and how to deal with, heart complaints or symptoms of a stroke until medical assistance can be administered. 

There is no formal qualification attached to attendance at the event, rather, it is intended that it would enhance participants’ confidence in assisting someone experiencing a heart complaint or stroke symptoms.

Attendance at the event would be free.

At the moment, we trying to establish the potential uptake and viability of such an initiative and, should there be enough interest, we will organise a date and a venue.

If you or your organisation are interested in attending such an even, please Email us and let us know.

To email us, click here

Community Council aid to Food Bank Project

The Community Council donated £100 toward the Airyhall Primary School Foodbank project. During the week beginning the 20th March the School's Pupil Council arranged to hold a collection for a food bank. 

The School worked with Community Food Initiative North East (CFINE), who organise food bank services and targeted food parcels for families in need in the North East. 

Leigh Houston, Depute Head at the School, who co-ordinated the event said "Students at the school managed to gather in 919 meals for CFINE and I would like to thank the Community Council for their contribution. We are already making plans to hold another initiative in term one or two of next year and make it a biannual event".  

The Community Council congratulate Ms Houston, her students and their parents on a great effort and are pleased to have been associated with this very worthwhile cause.

For more information on the initiative click here

For information on CFINE click here

Cafe Connect now open

The Centenary Hall at Mannofield Church has now been converted to a Community Cafe called Cafe Connect. The Cafe opened it's doors for business on 18 April. 

The creation of the cafe develops and engenders community engagement, targetting loneliness and isolation. It benefits the whole community including, the elderly, people with dementia and their carers and young parents and their children.

It is the intention that the community has an easily accessible, local and inclusive venue to meet and experience a welcoming, friendly environment providing affordable, nourishing food. 

Kirsty Macrae formerly of Circles @ Mannofield heads up the catering team and brings a wealth of experience to Cafe Connect.

There are opportunities to volunteer your services to work at the Cafe and anyone interested in volunteering should write to Cafe Connect at Mannofield Parish Church or email to manager@cafeconnectmannofield.co.uk copying the email to secretary@cafeconnectmannofield.co.uk. 

The Cafe is open:

Tuesday – Saturday      8am – 4pm and 

Sunday                       11am – 4pm

View the Cafe facebook page by clicking here

Community Council Meeting - 25 April 2017

The next meeting of the Community Council will be held at Airyhall Primary School, Countesswells Road on Tuesday 25 April 2017 beginning at 7pm prompt.

The Agenda for the meeting can be downloaded by clicking here.

EVERYONE WELCOME

Minutes of Meeting - 28 March 2017

The minutes of the Community Council Meeting held on Tuesday 28 March 2107 can be downloaded by clicking here.

Or you can use the link in the Document Archive Section on the right of this page.

If there are issues within the minutes, or comments that you want to make, please feel free to leave a comment here or email us on bandmcommcouncil@gmail.com

Nuart Aberdeen

The Nuart exhibition and workshops will be run in the city on the 14th, 15th and 16th of April.  As part of the exhibition, a number of walls across the city centre have been decorated by internationally renowned street artists.



If you want to participate in the workshops and lectures or if you just want to go and look at the street art, the event brochure can be found at

http://www.nuartaberdeen.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Aberdeen_Programme-web3.pdf

If it is just you want to view, then the various murals can be found in

• Aberdeen Market, Market Street 
• East Green 
• Guestrow 
• 19 Belmont Street 
• 18 Harriet Street 
• 29-31 Queen Street 
• Jopp’s Lane (2 works)

Community Council Bench

Residents may have noticed that a new bench has been placed in Springfield Road between Craigton Road and Craigton Terrace,  The Community Council recognised that, with the changes to the bus routes, more people were walking from North Deeside Road and Craigton Road.  It was suggested that a bench, half way up the hill would be welcome.

The Community Council would like to thank the local councillors for their advice and Aberdeen City Council, environmental services for their assistance in acquiring and fitting the bench.

We truly hope that this bench will be welcomed, well used and become an asset to the Community.

Community Gardens Initiative

A reminder that, with spring here, the Community Council has set aside some funds to assist communities brighten up their streets with flower planting initiatives.

Last year, the residents of Northcote Park applied for, and were awarded, money to purchase and plant flowers around the council trees in their street.

Not only did they brighten up their environment but the residents met over a cup of tea to discuss what they were going to do and how they were going to do it.  Once the flowers and compost had been bought they organised a community planting event.  Not only was the street appearance enhanced, but members of the community got to know each other a little better.

If you would like to apply for some funds to carry out a community gardening initiative, fill in a funding application form and let us know what it is you would intend doing.  We will see what we can do to help.

The funding form can be downloaded by clicking here or on the relevant entry in the document archive on the right of the screen.

If you have any other community based initiative you would like financial assistance with, have a look at our funding policy by clicking here.

Police Report - March 2017

Sergeant David Cowie says, "With the lighter nights and summer approaching our focus will remain on areas affected by break-ins and car crime. We will also continue to address quality of life calls and inconsiderate driving. We are always appreciative of calls from members of the public in order to allow us to be intelligence led and will continue to work hard to respond as always."

The local policing team are based at Whinhill and request that if any suspicious activity is seen they are contacted, either as an emergency on 999 or on the Police Scotland Service Centre at 101. 

Follow the Local Policing Team on Twitter @NorthEPolice   #WestEndCPT 

Also available are the three following contact email addresses for the West End:
AiryhallBroomhillGarthdeeCPT@Scotland.pnn.police.ukHazleheadAshleyQueensCrossCPT@Scotland.pnn.police.ukTorryFerryhillCPT@scotland.pnn.police.uk

Click here to download the full report