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Kincardine & Mearns Community Plan
Priority 5 Including Everyone in Our Communities – 3rd review
Intended Outcomes:
All local residents feel included and able to participate equally in vibrant and resilient communities and organisations are supported to be inclusive of a wide range of people in their work. Read the rest of this entry »
Kincardine & Mearns Community Plan
Priority 4 Local Economies – 3rd review
Intended Outcomes:
Our area is recognised as a supportive business environment; where residents, businesses and social enterprises are encouraged and assisted to make their communities self-sufficient. Read the rest of this entry »
Are You A Green Dog Walker?
Aberdeenshire Council has recently signed up to the award winning Green Dog Walking Scheme.
Green Dog Walkers (GDW) is a non-confrontational, friendly way to change attitudes about dog fouling. Volunteers wear GDW merchandise (or their dogs wear the green GDW collar) to show they have “taken the pledge” to always:
- Clean up after their dog
- Carry extra dog waste bags
- Be happy to be approached to ‘lend’ a dog waste bag to those without
- Be a friendly reminder to other dog walkers to clean up after their dog
Community councils work hand-in-hand with local groups to provide the “on the ground” work to sign up pledgers and the council provides the funding for the start-up merchandise and pledge brochures. It is the community volunteers who do the groundwork of signing on pledgers, running booths at local galas and other events.
Aberdeenshire Council will provide a Green Dog Walkers Tool Kit to each community organisation which becomes an official GDW group. The tool kit will include a supply of pledge brochures, dog collars, green doggy bags, posters, lanyards and other items.
Interested?
What to do next…
Contact Gillian Abel, Dog Warden – South, on 01569 768224 or by email at: gillian.abel@aberdeenshire.gov.uk for more information on how to get started!
Better Late Than Never….
The Annals of Arbuthnott
Isabella Williamson is one of life’s ‘maker-happeners’. She’s had to be to keep the Grassic Gibbon Centre in Arbuthnott open and vibrant. The times have changed and people don’t use village halls in quite the same way as they used to. This was one of the reasons that she started supporting a group of older residents to document their memories of past times in Arbuthnott.
In this interview, Isabella tells us how the Arbuthnott Reminiscence Group got started and how it fell in alongside the development of the Grassic Gibbon Centre – both of which are quite outstanding efforts to make sure the local past is gone but not forgotten.
SUPPORTING LOCAL ECONOMIES – 2ND REVIEW
Intended Outcomes:
Our area is recognised as a supportive business environment; where residents, businesses and social enterprises are encouraged and assisted to make their communities self-sufficient. Read the rest of this entry »
MEETING HOUSING NEEDS – 2ND REVIEW
Intended Outcomes:
Awareness of the need and options for appropriate and affordable housing is raised. Levels of homelessness are reduced through early intervention, education and the development of supportive social networks.
MEETING TRANSPORT NEEDS – 2ND REVIEW
Intended Outcomes:
Partners and local residents are working together to identify issues and opportunities and improve upon transport in a coordinated way.
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