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The Fairer Aberdeen Board has distributed £1.5million allocated by Aberdeen City Council to tackle poverty and deprivation across the city.
The funding supports the third sector to deliver services and to work in partnership with statutory services to address poverty. It provides for…
Community Planning Aberdeen is to strengthen partnership working to build on success in meeting the needs of children and young people.
Members today considered report Our Board - Community Planning Aberdeen that highlighted ways to achieve this, including greater data-sharing across…
Dozens of emergency battery packs which will ensure power during storms have been handed over to community resilience groups and vulnerable people across Aberdeen.
Aberdeen City Council gave the potentially life-saving equipment to Peterculter Community Resilience Group, Cults, Milltimber…
The Accessing Money Advice and Advisory Services questionnaire which returned 560 responses has helped identify areas where improvements can be made, with many of the recommendations having already been implemented.
At Tuesday's (25 March 2025) Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee,…
A committee visit to local charity AberNecessities has highlighted the positive impact that partnership working between organisations can have on communities and service users.
During the visit in January 2025, members of the Anti-Poverty and Inequality Committee met with Danielle Flecher-…
Free Numeracy Champion training is being made available to local employers, the third sector and community organisations, to support adults to overcome barriers to improving their numeracy skills, Aberdeen City Council announced today (24 March 2025).
ABZWorks, the Council’s Employability…
People of Aberdeen are being encouraged to take part in a new engagement on multiple strategies that together aim to shape the future of the city.
…People living in Aberdeen’s priority neighbourhoods have voted for 23 projects to receive funding to improve their communities thanks to UDECIDE, Aberdeen City Council’s participatory budget programme.
The community projects include First Aid…
Aberdeen has recorded fewer anti-social offences, as work continued to be undertaken in managing anti-social behaviour and youth disturbances across Aberdeen.
Councillors in the Communities, Housing and Public Protection Committee today (11 March) were updated on work carried out by…
A phased approach for the demolition of Council and private homes affected by RAAC (Reinforced Autoclaved Concrete) in Aberdeen has today been agreed (11 March).
Aberdeen City Council Communities, Housing and Public Protection Committee today accepted proposals for the initial…
Trading Standards officers have seized 225 packs of illegal cigarettes, 30 packs of counterfeit hand rolling tobacco, and 29 illegal vapes from two shops in Aberdeen – one of which stashed their illegal goods in two secret cupboards in the stockroom.
The seizures were part of in the…
Aberdeen Youth Movement (AYM) has received the Anne Frank Award 2025 from Action for a Fairer World and Grampian Regional Equality Council (GREC).
The judging panel was unanimous in its view that the evidence met the standard for the award. They found the AYM to be very strong…