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Meet OUR MEMBERS

Group membership of NESCAN is open to community-led and non-profit organisations based in Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire. This includes constituted and unconstituted groups, SCIOs, CICs and social enterprise companies that are limited by guarantee, and who support NESCAN's vision & aims. Below is a growing list of group members.

We welcome individual members, however we do not publish their details on our website. 

* THIS PAGE IS A WORK IN PROGRESS *

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  • Aberdeen & Aberdeenshire Greens

  • Scottish Green Party

Scottish Green Part of Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire

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  • Aberdeen Climate Action

  • Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

We are a volunteer-run organisation that aims to inform and prompt action on climate change and sustainable practices in the North East of Scotland through awareness raising, education, partnerships and support.

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  • Aberdeen Community Energy (ACE)

  • Aberdeen City

A multi-award winning Community Benefit Society, established, owned and run by the community with a for a sustainable community that truly works for its residents, visitors and the area’s natural riverside setting.

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  • Aberdeen For A Fairer World (AFW/MDEC)

  • Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

Action for a Fairer World is a project being provided by Aberdeen for a Fairer World/MDEC. The focus of AFW is on supporting young people, schools and the wider community to take action which will make a difference at a local, regional and global level.

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  • Aberdeen University Students Association

  • University of Aberdeen

Aberdeen University Students Association is a student-led organisation that supports, empowers, and represents you, the student.

  • Aberdeen Ethnic Minority Women's Group

Aberdeen Ethnic Minority Women’s Group CIC is a community-driven organisation that provides crucial support to ethnic minority women and children in the Aberdeen area.

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  • Aboyne Climate Group

  • Aboyne

Aboyne Climate Group brings together a community of people from Aboyne and the surrounding area that share a vision and an interest in our local climate and environment. We have put on a range of educative talks and invite everyone to get involved in local projects that enhance our area and provide resilience to climate change.

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  • Aboyne Paths and Tracks

  • Aboyne

A Project of Mid Deeside Community Trust. Aboyne Paths and Tracks Group (APTG) is run by local volunteers with the aim of maintaining, developing and promoting Mid Deeside’s paths and tracks.

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  • Action for Climate and Environment

  • Newburgh

Action for Climate and Environment Newburgh is a charity covering the same areas as the Foveran Community Council area in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. We run activities, events and share information about the environment and climate change.

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  • Alford & District Men's Shed

  • Alford Green Hub

Our aim is to offer opportunities for men in the Alford area to meet and undertake creative, physical, purposeful and recreational activities of their choice, and to share their skills and knowledge with others. We are a registered charity and a member of the Scottish Men's Sheds Association.

  • Alford Primary Parent Council

Alford Primary Parent Council for updates, information and meeting with parents of Alford Primary.

  • Alford Street Planters

Alford Street Planters

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  • Asylum and Refugee Care (AARC)

  • Non-profit Social Entreprise

Asylum & Refugee Care (AARC) SCIO is a dedicated charity focused on supporting the growing number of refugees and people seeking asylum in North-East Scotland.

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  • Apex Church

Apex Church is a life giving church in the heart of our community. A recognised Scottish Charity which is in fellowship with Assemblies of God, Great Britain

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  • Ballater (Royal Deeside) Ltd

  • Crathie, Ballater and Dinnet

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  • Ballater CAN

  • Ballater

A Climate Action Now (CAN) Group based in Ballater engaged in climate change mitigation and environmental protection campaigns .

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  • Banchory Greenpower

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  • Banff and Macduff Community Council

  • Non-profit Social Enterprise

Banff and Macduff Community Council comprises of a mix of residents of both Banff and Macduff. We are the first level of local government and are responsible for representing our community and ensuring that we have a voice in the wider Aberdeenshire locality.

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  • Banff Macduff and District Men's Shed

  • Macduff

Men's Shed

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  • Bennachie Leisure Centre

  • Largie Road, Insch

Bennachie Leisure Centre has been at the heart of Insch since 2000, offering sport, health, social and educational welfare activities and services for all. Our focus is to promote health and well-being by providing a safe, supportive and welcoming environment to encourage and enthuse Insch and the surrounding community to become active and stay active.

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  • Black and Scot

Black and Scot is a female-led, not-for-profit organisation dedicated to equipping Black individuals with the skills, resources, and support needed to thrive through our technology, equity, and sustainability initiatives.

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  • Bridge of Don and District Men's Shed

  • Bridge of Don, Aberdeen

We are a local, voluntary Community organisation for Men, aged between 18 & 118! At its core is a positive health message, by giving Members the opportunity to remain fit and active, both physically and mentally.

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  • Brighter Bucksburn

  • Bloom Group

Brighter Bucksburn is a community group set up by Bucksburn Community Council and the Beacon Gardening Club to improve the local area.

  • Cattleskate Academy

  • CIC - NPSE

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  • Circular Communities Scotland

  • Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire

At Circular Communities Scotland, we empower our national network of reuse, repair and recycling charities.

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  • Castlehill and Pittodrie Community Council

  • Aberdeen City

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  • Compass Project

  • Camphill

The Compass project aims to develop inclusive spaces that will serve and engage the local and wider community in Aberdeen City & Shire.

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  • Communities Housing Trust

The Communities Housing Trust (CHT) is a registered charity and social enterprise focused on building sustainable rural communities across central and northern Scotland.

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  • Cove in Bloom

  • Beautiful Scotland Group

A local group of hard working volunteers dedicated to making cove look beautiful all year.

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  • Cove Woodland Trust

  • SCIO

Provision of recreational facilities for the community of Cove and the advancement of environmental improvements.

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  • Deeside CAN

  • Banchory

Deeside CAN stands for Climate Action Network. It also stands for Care And Nurture for our community, environment and planet. We are a group of people living in and around mid-Deeside in Aberdeenshire, who passionately want to do something to lower our carbon footprint to minimise climate change, reverse biodiversity loss and eliminate waste.

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  • EAGerBunch

  • Ellon Academy Gardeners

The EAGer Bunch aim to build a garden where we can grow lots of edible produce and encourage wildlife with flowers and habitat boxes.

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  • Earth and Worms

  • Tillydrone

Earth & Worms is a community project based in Tillydrone. We are located at the rear of Tillydrone Pharmacy on Hayton Road. Our garden serves as the hub to our enterprise, creating fertiliser and compost from green and food waste.

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  • Ellon Community Allotments (ECA)

  • Ellon

We are a community allotment group based in Ellon working towards building spaces for growing and wildlife for people in the Ythan area.

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  • Ellon Wheel Park Group

Ellon Wheel park is a not-for-profit charity made up of local volunteers providing a free to use facility for the people of Ellon and the surrounding area. To help towards ongoing upkeep and maintenance costs we welcome donations via link below, or alternatively help support us longer term and become a yearly member and/or volunteer to give back to the community.

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  • FACEYOUTH SCIO

  • The Foundation for Advancement of Child Education and Youth Empowerment

  • Feughside Community Association

Feughside Community Council serves the communities of Strachan, Auchattie, Blackhall, Tilquhillie and Glendye.

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  • Fraserburgh & District Men's Shed

Fraserburgh Community Shed is a welcoming space for everyone to connect, learn, and create.

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  • Fresh Community Wellness SCIO

  • Seaton & Linksfield

Operating from Seaton & Linksfield neighbourhoods, and surrounding areas, we are a volunteer lead Mental Health Charity.

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  • Fair Food Aberdeenshire

Fair Food Aberdeenshire (FFA) believe everyone should have access to affordable and healthy food no matter where they live or how much they earn.

  • Friends of Erroll Place

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  • Friends of Forest Drive Park

Friends of Forest Drive Park aims to promote, maintain, protect and improve our park for the whole community to enjoy for many years to come.

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  • Friends of Seaton Park

FoSP are a registered charity comprised of volunteer board members who are dedicated to the enhancement and development of one of Aberdeen's best loved green spaces.

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  • Friends of Murray Park

Friends of Murray Park in Alford is a group to enable local people to get more involved with this great site and help with management, such as tree planting and other conservation projects.

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  • Friends of St Fittick's Park

  • Torry, Aberdeen City

St Fittick's Community Park is the last freely accessible green-space in Torry, Aberdeen. We are fighting to protect St. Fittick’s Park in its entirety and the surrounding green belt from the so-called Energy Transition Zone (ETZ), ensuring the lands continue to be thriving habitats for plants, animals and the community. We celebrate St Fittick's Park as a place for people of Torry and Aberdeen to come and enjoy and be close to nature. We work and collaborate with others to help maintain and improve the park and its biodiversity, including the East Tullos Burn.

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  • Friends of Sunnybank Park

  • SCIO

Friends of Sunnybank Park is a local charity which was set up to run the park and keep it open.

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  • Friends of Westfield Park

  • Bridge of Don

Set up in 2017, Friends of Westfield Park are a small but enthusiastic group of volunteers, who help look after and make improvements to Westfield Park in Bridge of Don.

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  • Friends of Tarlair Community Group

The Friends of Tarlair Trustees are well placed to take the pool renovation project forward, with a good balance of skills not least of which is determination and enthusiasm.

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  • Friends of the Haughs

We are a constituted group formed to improve the biodiversity around the Haughs, by planting wildflowers, trees & bulbs. We aim to make the area more welcoming for all - human, animal & insect.

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  • Friends of the Earth Scotland

We are a team of 20 staff and a network of thousands of supporters and active local groups. We are part of Friends of the Earth International – the largest grassroots environmental network in the world uniting 73 member groups and millions of supporters.

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  • Fyvie Primary Parent Council

The Parent Council are heavily involved in school life, contributing to whole school decisions and raising money for resources throughout the year.

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  • Gairn Community Garden

The Gairn Community Garden is a vibrant initiative in Aberdeen, transforming 600 square meters of abandoned allotment into a thriving community space.

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  • Grampian Opportunities

  • Non-profit social enterprise

Covers Aberdeenshire and also supports people who may live in Aberdeen  

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  • Mamacita Foundation

Founded on the 23rd of September 2020, the Mamacita Foundation embarked on its mission to make a difference in the lives of those most vulnerable in our community, when it was made a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

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  • Garthdee Community Council

  • Garthdee Community Council is a voluntary organisation set up by statute by Aberdeen City Council.

  • Garthdee Community Garden

The Garthdee Community Garden is a dedicated area within the Garthdee Fields Allotment Association (GFFA) site.

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  • Garthdee Field Allotments Association

Garthdee Field is a wonderful, friendly, green space. We plotters see it as, ‘our wee place in the country’. We are enthusiastic gardeners who like sharing ideas about gardening better and greener.

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  • Granite City Good Food

  • Partnership Group

Granite City Good Food is Aberdeen City’s Sustainable Food Places Partnership, one of over 110 partnerships in a national network.

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  • Gray Street Allotment Association

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  • Greener Kemnay

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  • Garioch Sports Centre

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Garioch Sports Centre is a Scottish charity that offers gym, personal training, wellbeing, fitness, kids, teens and seniors activities in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire.

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  • Go Deep Scotland

Go Deep is a game that generates transformation in communities, to promote cohesion, inclusion, empowerment of its members and strengthen their resilience.

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  • Greener Kincardine and Mearns

  • Kincardine & Mearns

Greener Kincardine and Mearns are a new group, concerned with environmental issues.

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  • Hazlehead Outdoor Nursery

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  • Horizon

  • Stonehaven

Stonehaven Horizon is a voluntary group whose aim is to foster civic pride in the town and make Stonehaven a better place to live and work.

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  • Huntly Climate Action

  • Huntly

A local community group working to raise awareness and take action in the face of the Climate Emergency.

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  • Huntly Greenspace Collective (Non -profit social enterprise)

People for nature and nature for people, working together towards a greener Huntly.

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  • Hatton Repair Cafe

  • Inverurie Academy Reading Leadership Group

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  • Inverurie Community Energy Society Ltd operating as Garioch District Heat

  • Garioch district

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  • Inverurie Environmental Improvement Group (IEI)

  • Inverurie West Parish Church Community Garden

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  • Inverurie West Church Climate Action Group

  • Inverurie

  • Kincorth Leggart Community Council

  • Industry

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  • Kingswells Community Centre

  • Kingswells Scouts

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  • Lumphanan Paths Group

  • Industry

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  • Magpie Charity

  • Mark Bush Court Residents Association

  • Social Enterprise

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  • Maud Village Trust

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  • McDonald (Ellon) Golf Club

  • Industry

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  • Meldrum Amenities Improvement Group

  • Industry

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  • Mohanji Foundation

  • Huntly

  • Nether Loirston Growers Association

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  • New Arc Wildlife Rescue

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  • New Deer Community Association

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  • Newmachar and Kingseat Community Allotments

  • Allotments group

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  • North East Arts Touring

  • Industry

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  • North East Scotland Biodiversity Partnership

  • Non-profit Social Enterprise

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  • North East Scotland Mammal Network

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  • North East Scotland Retrofit Hub (NESFIT)

  • Industry

  • Obfuscation (Glendkindie)

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  • Old Torry Community Centre Association SCIO

  • Torry, Aberdeen City

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  • Off the Rails Community Garden

  • Industry

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  • One Seed Forward

  • Aberdeen City & Aberdeenshire

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  • Paws on Plastic

  • Environmental charity for Dog Owners

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  • Peterhead Area Community Trust

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  • Portlethen & District Community Allotment Association

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  • Portlethen Moss Conservation Group

Portlethen Moss Conservation Group was formed in 2005 to protect Portlethen Moss, a Local Nature Conservation Site.

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  • Polish Association Aberdeen

  • Aberdeen

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  • Portsoy Community Enterprise

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  • Printfield Community Project

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  • Ruthrieston Community Centre Association

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  • RGU Go Green

  • Industry

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  • Tap o Noth Community Seed Library (Prev. Rhynie Seed Library)

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  • RISE Aberdeen CIC

  • Industry

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  • Royal Northern Countryside Initiative

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  • Scarf

  • Region wide

  • Seaton Community Hub

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  • SEAChange (Slains Environmental Action for Change)

  • Collieston and Slains

  • Shevock Burn CIC

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  • Slains and Collieston Community Council

  • Community Council, Aberdeenshire

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  • Staff Garden - University of Aberdeen

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  • Social Juice CIC

  • Industry

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  • Sound Festival - Non-profit social enterprise

  • Industry

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  • Springhill Community Garden

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  • St Machar Community Biodiversity Group

  • St Machar Cathedral

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  • St. Machar Academy Parent Council

  • St Machar Drive

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  • Station House Media Unit

  • Industry

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  • Stockfree Farming

  • Sustainable Farming

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  • Stonehaven Town Partnership

  • Industry

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  • Sustainable Ellon

  • Ellon

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  • Sustainable Mearns

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  • St. Fittick's Torry

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  • Tarland Climate Crisis Group

  • Cromar

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  • Tarland Development Group

  • Tarland and Howe of Cromar

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  • The Barn

  • Industry

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  • The Community Collective Stonehaven

  • Industry

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  • The Forget-Me-Not Club

  • Industry

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  • The Haven Stonehaven

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  • The Foyer Vinery

  • Banff

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  • The Haven - Stonehaven

  • Industry

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  • The Forge Banff CIC

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  • The Mixing Bowl

  • Bieldside, Aberdeen

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  • The Secret Garden Society

  • Old Aberdeen

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  • Tillydrone Community Council

  • Community Council

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  • Turriff Baden Powell Centre

  • SCIO

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  • Turriff Primary Eco-Schools Group

  • Eco Schools Group

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  • Udny Community Trust Company Ltd

  • Industry

We exist to help the community of Udny to develop and are working hard to transform local facilities to best serve the needs and wishes of Udny.

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  • Udny Climate Action

  • UCA is part of PUT (Pitmedden Udny Tarves Community SCIO SC045547). PUT also undertakes all the flower planting in Pitmedden, along with associated environmental initiatives in the area. The purpose of UCA is to develop and support initiatives to combat climate change and reduce its harmful effects on the environment.

  • Udny Repair Cafe

  • A Repair Cafe for the Udny (and wider) area of Aberdeenshire

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  • Westhill & Elrick Community Council

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Westhill & Elrick Community Council is a statutory organisation made up of local volunteers. We’re non-political and governed by a code of conduct. WECC offers a collective voice on community matters and works to improve the quality of life for residents. Activities include supporting local organisations; promoting safety and safeguarding amenity; organising events; and commenting on planning applications.

  • Wild Flowers in Wild Places

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  • YAHYAS International Hub

  • Young Adult Helps Young Asylum Seeker

YAHYA provides unaccompanied young asylum seekers with support by organising group activities where they can socialise with local young adults in a friendly, non-judgmental environment. Through fun events and workshops focused on building interpersonal skills, we help reduce isolation and boredom. Our goal is to improve their wellbeing, boost confidence, and support community integration, giving them the tools they need to thrive and rebuild their lives in the UK.

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  • Zero Carbon Daviot

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NESCAN Hub is free to join & as part of our network you can meet, learn & work together with other organisations working on similar projects here in the North East.

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Any community-led organisation and non-profit social enterprise or individual within Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire, who support NESCAN's vision and objectives can apply for associate membership.

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