Places to stay, eat and things to do around Westhill, Aberdeenshire - also animal care, art, entertainment and musical opportunities, cars, design and domestic services, education, engineering, financial, gardening, health, IT, property, retail, sport services and support services for families

Great financial advice from Young Enterprise for young people — Your Money Matters Scotland Edition – designed for use with young people age 14 – 16 in Scotland and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, risk, rewards, investments, student finance and future planning around student loans, tax and national insurance

Britain's great places to visit

Contact email for NHS Grampian doctor's surgeries

Theresa Riggi children Austin, Cecilia and Luke remembered in Westhill at the Scout Hut by Pam Dignan Dancers

Westhill from above with snow in the hills in January 2021
Westhill from above with snow in the hills in January 2021

Local Transport Provision for Westhill residents to aid mobility

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Easy access to places to stay, eat and services —

Places to Stay

  • Byde Guesthouse by Elrick on Visit Scotland
  • Holiday Inn Aberdeen West
  • Premier Inn — Aberdeen (Westhill) hotel on A944 road between Tesco and Elrick
  • Aberdeen City Council — Advice and information for empty home owners
  • Aberdeen City Council — Matchermaker scheme aims to introduce homeowners who are looking to rent their empty property to people on Aberdeen City Council’s housing waiting lists
  • Aberdeen City Council — Disabled Persons Housing Service
  • Aberdeen Soroptimist Housing Society (Osprey Housing) — provides 1 bedroom flats for single women of over 60 years of age and accommodation for a person with disabilities and their carer
  • Care and Repair Scotland — independent advice and assistance to help elderly and disabled homeowners repair, improve or adapt their homes so that they can live in comfort and safety in their own community
  • Castlehill Housing Association — provides high-quality affordable housing, and an efficient, responsive and personal housing management and maintenance service
  • DPHS Aberdeen — housing advice, information and advocacy to disabled people, their families and carers
  • Find a home — social rented homes or bid for homes
  • Grampian Housing — Affordable Housing
  • Hanover Scotland — high-quality social housing
  • Houseability — housing information, advice and advocacy to people with disabilities or long-term health problems, living in or wishing to relocate to Aberdeenshire
  • Langstane Housing
  • Milltimber Community Hall — community-owned centre offering lots of activities to the residents of Milltimber and further afield
  • Northcote Lodge Care Home — located at 191 Craigton Road, Aberdeen, AB15 7UB
  • Osprey Housing — Providing quality, affordable homes across North-East Scotland
  • Sanctuary Scotland — works to create communities where people are proud to live
  • Scottish Accessible Housing Network — helps ensure aids or adaptations to homes are fitted to the highest standard
  • Shelter Scotland — defending the right to a safe home
  • Simeon care — a care home with 23 en-suite bedrooms for any older person who can no longer manage in their own home
  • Under One Roof — Impartial advice on repairs and maintenance for flat owners in Scotland
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    Places to Visit

  • Foggieloan — the village of Aberchirder
  • Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Visitor Guide
  • Aberdeen Bridge Club
  • Aberdeen City Council — Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums
  • History of Aberdeen on Wikipedia
  • Aberdeen Harbour and Torry Battery
  • Aberdeen Torry Ecomuseum Project (TEP) is a virtual arts project and highlights the Torry community’s enduring relationship with its built and natural environment, and its distinct social, work and leisure relationships with waterways, including the River Dee, Aberdeen Harbour, and varied coastal settings from beaches, cliffs, coastal walks and wetlands
  • Aberdeen Science Centre, Constitution Street near Broad Hill
  • Aberdeen U3A — provides educational, recreational and social activities for retired or semi-retired people who, after the completion of their many years of employment, or family obligations, wish to continue their life in the company of others, in Aberdeen and the Shire
  • Aberlour Highland Games
  • Aboyne and Deeside Festival
  • Aboyne Games
  • Aden Allotments — Aden Country Park, Mintlaw
  • Alford Heritage Museum
  • All Trails Leuchar Moss Forest Walk
  • Bailies Of Bennachie — a voluntary conservation society whose objectives are to encourage and stimulate the public’s interest of Bennachie.
  • Ballatar RD
  • Balmedie Country Park
  • Balmoral Castle
  • Banchory Show
  • Battle Scotland at Druggam Woodlands, Banchory, Aberdeen, AB31 5HP — range of activities airsoft, archery, axe and knife throwing, laser tag and wilderness challenge and the North East of Scotland's paintball specialist
  • Blaikiewell Animal Sanctuary — Deeside, Aberdeenshire
  • Beechgrove Garden — Easter Ord
  • Belhelvie Community Trust — Balmedie, Belhelvie, Potterton, Whitecairns and Blackdog
  • The Bellman — Proposals for new Visitor Centre at Dunnottar Castle
  • Bennachie Visitor Centre
  • Birse Community Trust, Finzean, south east of Aboyne
  • Bon Accord Baths — a project run by Bon Accord Heritage
  • Boyndie Visitor Centre, Banff
  • Broch Skate Club, Fraserburgh
  • Buchan Development Partnership
  • The Cabrach Trust
  • Castle Fraser
  • Cabin Equestrian Centre — Combined riding school, competition and training centre in Inverurie, Aberdeenshire
  • Collieston Online
  • Crathes Hall
  • Crathie Opportunity Holidays — Disabled Friendly Holiday Cottages With Access For All
  • Crathes Castle
  • Cruden Bay — a popular and picturesque area of Aberdeenshire with a great local fishing community, miles of coast line and rural scenes
  • Cruden Bay on Visit Scotland
  • Crathes Castle Car Event June to Oct
  • Craigevar Castle
  • Craigston Castle, near Turriff
  • Cruickshank Botanic Garden (University of Aberdeen)
  • Walk Highlands — Cruden Bay to the Bullers of Buchan
  • Culter Heritage — museum and tea room
  • Dalgatie Castle, near Turriff
  • Zero Carbon Daviot
  • Deeside Activity Park
  • Deeside Way
  • Druminnor Castle, near Rhynie and North West of Alford in line with Insch
  • Dunnottar Castle, near Stonehaven
  • Ecclesgreig Holiday Park at St Cyrus by Nature Reserve, south of Inverbervie in the Montrose basin
  • Fittie Community Development Trust
  • Formartine Rural Partnership — Formartine lies between the Ythan and Don rivers which flow eastwards from the Grampians and includes Ellon, Newburgh and Oldmeldrum as chief settlements
  • Visit Fraserburgh
  • Fraserburgh Castle and Lighthouse
  • Fraserburgh Heritage Centre
  • People First Fraserburgh
  • Friends of Duff House
  • Friends of Forgue Kirk
  • Fyvie Castle
  • Gardenstown Community Hub
  • Glass Community Association
  • The Garioch Partnership
  • Garlogie Beam Engine Trust — the site of a wool spinning mill dating from 1799. Little remains today except for an 1830s beam engine (a type of early steam engine) still in its Historic Environment Scotland Category A-listed engine house
  • Glamis Castle
  • Old Kirk of Glenbuchat
  • Glen Tanar, Royal Deeside
  • GO Ape Aberdeen — Test yourself with Treetop Adventure, free-fall Tarzan swings, 14m plummet & zip lines
  • Gordon Highlanders Museum
  • Grampian Transport Museum
  • Gravitate North East — Creating a world class mountain bike and adventure sports destination for Aberdeenshire
  • Haddo House
  • House of Dun, Garden and Estate and Montrose Basin Nature Reserve
  • Huntly Castle
  • Huntly Development Trust
  • The Insch Connection Museum
  • We Are Inverurie
  • Keig Community — between Alford and Kemnay
  • Kildrummy Castle
  • Positive Steps Kemnay
  • Royal Burgh of Kintore
  • Kincardineshire Development Partnership
  • Logie Coldstone — a small community at the foot of Morven in Aberdeenshire, North East Scotland. It is situated in the Howe of Cromar, about midway between Aboyne and Ballater
  • Lonach Hall, Strathdon
  • Lumsden Community Association
  • Maggie Law Maritime Museum
  • Mar Lodge Estate National Nature Reserve
  • Marr Area Partnership — Luphanan, Alford, Aboyne, Logie Coldstone and Braemar
  • Maud Museum from the Friends of Maud
  • Maud Village Trust — Maud is near Mintlaw
  • McDuff Aquarium near Banff
  • The Mearns or Kincardineshire on VisitScotland.com — The Mearns includes Fettercairn, Laurencekirk, Inverbervie, Stonehaven, Newtonhill, Portlethen, St Cyrus and Johnshaven
  • Mid Deeside Community Trust, Aboyne
  • Midmar Hall
  • Monymusk Village Hall
  • Museum of Scottish Lighthouses
  • New Deer Show — The First Agricultural Show in the North East of Scotland
  • New Deer Village – near Maud between Turriff and Mintlaw
  • Rhynie Charitable Trust
  • Peterhead Prison Museum
  • Portsoy Salmon Bothy
  • Provost Skene's House — between Broad Street, Upperkirkgate and Union Street on Flourmill Lane, Aberdeen – opened as a museum in 1953 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
  • Dee District Salmon Fishery Board & River Dee Trust
  • Peterhead Scottish Week
  • River Ythan, Aberdeenshire
  • The Royal Deeside Railway — At the Milton of Crathes, we have an award-winning Victorian station, a railway carriage tearoom, a shop with ice creams
  • Scottish Traditional Boat Festival at Portsoy
  • Slains Castle
  • Slains Environmental Action for Change — community proposal to transform Collieston's Slains Kirk into a centre that encourages environmental awareness, promotes local heritage, inspires enjoyment of the arts and music
  • Stonehaven Fireballs
  • Stonehaven Tolbooth Museum
  • Stonehaven Town Partnership
  • Visit Tarland and Cromar — The Howe of Cromar includes Logie Coldstone, Coull, Ordie and Migvie and Tarland (Tarland is the largest)
  • Tarland Development Group
  • Tullynessle and Forbes Hall
  • Aberdeen City Council — Thomas Blake Glover Trail
  • Tolquhon Castle, Tarves
  • Turriff and District Heritage Society Museum
  • Turriff Show
  • Udny Station — the cycle path or old railway line that starts at the end of Station Road in Dyce by the railway station runs to Peterhead. It passes through Udny Station, an historic railway station closed in the Beeching cuts around 1965
  • Ury Riverside Park

    • Fun for all the family, including the children

  • Codonas Amusement Aberdeen Beach Arcade
  • Broch Skate Club, Fraserburgh
  • The Den and The Glen — Indoor Soft Play and Outdoor Fun for Kids
  • GO Ape Aberdeen — Test yourself with Treetop Adventure, free-fall Tarzan swings, 14m plummet & zip lines
  • Hoodles Play Barn at North Mains of Barra, Oldmeldrum, AB51 0BB — Hoodles Playbarn and Coffee Shop offers a unique, fun play experience for children while parents and carers meet up and eat
  • Jump in Adventure Park Aberdeen — trampoline, soft play and climbing session
  • Lochter Activity Centre between Inverurie and Old Meldrum
  • Play Town Inverurie — a play centre for young children featuring a scaled down version of the town which will inspire children to explore life in our miniature settings through role play
  • Skyline Trampoline Park, Inverurie
  • Thai Buddharam Temple and Cultural Centre — located opposite Wallace house multi-story flats, Hazlehead
  • Undiscovered Scotland — Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire Local Attractions
  • Wynford Farm play barn — located between Aberdeen bypass roundabout on A944 and Clinterty
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    Places to eat, buy food and drink

  • Aberdeenshire Highland Beef — Lochton of Leys, Banchory, AB31 5QB
  • Ace Kombucha, Ballater — Kombucha is fermented tea that is known for its tangy flavour and gut-healthy organic acids, its alive, raw, unpasteurised, unfiltered, naturally fizzy, low in sugar, caffeine and calories
  • The Bread Maker
  • Alan Bruce Cakes
  • Bevs Bistro — Cafe and takeaway – Bistro 123 Holburn Street, Aberdeen AB10 6BP – Home baking, bread, celebration and wedding cakes
  • Big Beefys Biltong — Unit 4, 1 Kirkhill Place, Dyce, Aberdeen, AB21 0GU – Beef and spices to make the best biltong!
  • Bothy 57 Cafe at Kirkton of Skene on Facebook
  • The Bread Guy — Unit 6 Blackhall Industrial Estate, Inverurie, AB51 4FS – Sells bread
  • Bridgefoot Organic Co-op — Dedicated to growing and supplying delicious organic fruit and veg boxes to Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
  • Cambus o'May Cheese Co — The Creamery, Cambus O’May, Ballater, Aberdeenshire, AB35 5SD – Cheese and butter
  • Castleton Fruit — Howe of the Mearns, near Fettercairn (South Aberdeenshire) – Fruit farm for strawberries, raspberries and blueberries
  • Cocoa Ooze Chocolates — New Jasmine House, Greenbank Place, East Tullos, Aberdeen, AB12 3BT
  • Cones and Candy on Facebook — ice cream shop – this shop has ceased trading in Westhill
  • The Crafty Pickle Co — 2-4 Poynernook Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5RW – Fruit and vegetables, preserves, jams and honey
  • Crannach — Learn to bake bread at Cambus O’May, near Ballater
  • Cup Aberdeen on Facebook — tea room at 9 Little Belmont Street
  • The Devenick Dairy — Hand crafted cheeses
  • Donald Russell — British, grass-fed, melt-in-your-mouth steak with a commitment to quality having earned over 300,000 Feefo five-star customer reviews
  • Fancies by Flossy
  • The Farm Garden — Ballaterach Farmhouse No 2, Dinnet, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, AB34 5NX – Fruit and/or vegetables; Preserves, Jams and/or honey; Home Baking and/or bread; Plants and/or herbs
  • Four Mile Restaurant, Fairley Road, Kingswells — by the Westhill to Aberdeen cycle path
  • From Bakery Lane — Longfold, Blairdaff, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5LA – Preserves, Jams and/or Honey and Home Baking
  • Garlogie Inn on Facebook
  • Garlogie Inn Website
  • Granite City Fish Co Ltd — Poynernook Road, Aberdeen, AB11 5QX – Sells fish
  • Granite North Gin — 18 Burnett Place, Aberdeen, AB24 4QD – Scottish gin
  • Green Pastures Cafe on Facebook at Westhill Community Church by Broadshade
  • Hosies Fish and Chips — Westhill's only sit-in fish and chip bar at the Kirkton of Skene
  • Inverurie Green Grocer — Inverurie’s specialist food store
  • Jaffs Bar and Restaurant Dunecht
  • J.G. Ross
  • Kincardine Kitchen — Kincardine Castle, Kincardine O’Neil, Aboyne, AB34 5AE – Preserves, Jams and/or Honey, Home Baking and/or Bread
  • Loving our city TLC — Trussell Trust-affiliated food bank founded in 2015 commited to serving the people of Aberdeen
  • Low's Traditional Fish and Chips
  • Morning Dog Coffee — 2 Kirk Brae Drive, Cults, Aberdeen, AB15 9RH – Freshly roasted speciality coffee beans
  • Lynne's Cupcake Creations
  • Muchacho — a mission to bring the authentic flavours of Mexican street food to the people of Aberdeen
  • Madame Mews — Authentic Thai Cafe Aberdeen
  • Produce From Scotland — 11 Urquhart Road, Aberdeen, AB24 5LU – Scottish alcoholic drinks
  • Ola Oils — Chestnut Brae, Blackhall Road, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, AB51 5JJ – Extra virgin cold pressed rapeseed oil, infused oils, basil, garlic, lemon and chilli harvested on a farm in Inverurie
  • The Saucy Horse — Burnside, Dinnet, Aboyne, AB34 5PL – Vegan and non-vegan vermicelli noodles with secret ingredient noodle broth, authentic Indian Chai, gluten free cakes and mallownuts
  • The Seed Box — Walled Garden, Ballogie, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, AB34 5DT – Social enterprise providing horticultural training and outdoor therapy – Sells plants and herbs
  • The Shepherds Rest Pub and Grill in Westhill
  • Simply Colette — Bruce House, St Eunans Road, Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, AB34 5HH – Home and garden décor and accessories
  • Sourcloud Bakes — 112 Jesmond Avenue, Bridge of Don, Aberdeen, AB22 8UF – Preserves, Jams and/or Honey, Home Baking and/or Bread
  • Szechuan Chinese Takeaway Westhill
  • The Sparrow Bakery Cupcake Delivery Aberdeen
  • Tangletree Studio on Visit Scotland — Unit 2, Station Square, Aboyne, AB34 5HX – Preserves, confectionery, drinks, jams and honey
  • Touch of Love Outreach — a charitable organisation helping to feed local Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire homes experiencing real hardship by meeting their most basic need for food through a home delivery of weekly provision of 3 days emergency food supplies
  • Watt's Baking
  • Wark Farm — Wark Farm, Cushnie, Alford, Aberdeenshire, AB33 8LL – Beef, Lamb and/or Mutton, Pork and/or Bacon, Eggs and Organic Produce
  • White Cottage, Aboyne — White Cottage, Craigwell, Aboyne, AB34 5BP – Preserves, jams, honey, confectionery
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    Animal care

  • Ardene House — Vet hospital on A944 by Five Mile Garage
  • Ashgrove Veterinary Centre
  • Boxer Welfare Scotland — rescuing and rehoming boxers
  • Cetacean Research & Rescue Unit — a marine conservation charity dedicated to the study, conservation and understanding of UK whales, dolphins and porpoises (cetaceans) through scientific research, environmental education and the provision of a voluntary veterinary rescue service for marine wildlife in distress
  • Doggydudes Dog Grooming
  • Donview Veterinary Centre — Inverurie and Kintore
  • Gascon Cattle Society
  • Kelldun Canines Dog Walker
  • The New Arc — The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre at Ellon
  • Owl and Pussycat Centre
  • Paws and Claws Day Care
  • Scottish Greyhound Sanctuary
  • Touchdown Memorial Home for Horses
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    Art, Craft, Entertainment and Musical Opportunities

  • Aberdeen Bach Choir
  • Aberdeen Chamber Music Concerts
  • Aberdeen Chamber Orchestra
  • Aberdeen Chorus of Sweet Adelines
  • Aberdeen Concert Band
  • Aberdeen Passion on Facebook
  • Aberdeenshire Saxophone Orchestra
  • Aberdeen Strathspey and Reel Society — traditional Scottish music orchestras
  • Anatomy Rooms — a unique creative hub offering a range of working spaces, events and projects in support of individual practitioners, groups and arts organisations
  • Banchory Strathspey and Reel Society
  • Bon Accord Camera Club
  • Bon Accord Silver Bands
  • Bucksburn Pipe Band
  • Aberdeen Orpheus Choir — a four-part choir who perform a wide-ranging repertoire of choral music – programmes are varied, innovative and include classical and modern musical styles
  • Aberdeen Sinfonietta — an orchestra that describes itself as Aberdeen's Own Orchestra
  • The Classical Association of Scotland — Aberdeen and North of Scotland Centre
  • Concordia String Orchestra — is an accomplished, dynamic and friendly amateur musical ensemble based in Aberdeen
  • Culter Theatre Club — Pantomime, Amateur Dramatics and Theatre, Song and Dance, brought to the stage for you by a gang of people, based in Peterculter, Scotland
  • Dark Island Trust — promoting traditional music and dance in the Aberdeen area
  • Friends of Aberdeen Art Gallery and Museums
  • The Arts Society Grampian
  • Con Anima was a Chamber Choir based in Aberdeen, conducted by Professor Paul Mealor
  • Grampian Concert Orchestra
  • Grampian Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers
  • Grampian Hospital Radio — broadcasts to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and Roxburghe House to cheer up patients and distract them from their illness
  • Granite City Pipes and Drums — formed in October 2014 by a band of enthusiastic young pipers and drummers from the North East of Scotland
  • Haddo Arts — creative home for all the arts in the heart of North East Scotland. Magnificent Haddo House is our inspiration
  • Highland Granite Pipes and Drums
  • Inverurie Choral Society
  • Inverurie Music
  • Jazz Scotland
  • Mearns FM
  • Music 4 U — Music 4 U is an inclusive provider of performing arts classes in Aberdeen and Newburgh
  • Newtonhill Pipe Band — a recreational pipe band and voluntary charitable organisation whose aim is to disseminate the knowledge and enjoyment of pipes and pipe bands to the wider community and to teach both piping and drumming.
  • North East Scotland Performing Arts — offers performing opportunities to all participants before a sympathetic audience and was formed in 1909 and known as The Aberdeen and North East of Scotland Music Festival Association
  • Peacock and Worm — a printmaking workshop in the north east of Scotland offering a wide range of artistic techniques, such as relief printing, intaglio, screenprint, lithography, and risograph
  • Pitmedden Music Festival
  • Puppet Animation Scotland — champions puppetry, visual theatre and animated film in Scotland and internationally
  • Scottish Culture and Traditions — aim is to promote awareness and growth of Scottish traditional music, song and dance, and to do so in a way which brings enjoyment, encouragement, enthusiasm and a sense of community
  • Scottish Sculpture Workshop
  • Shazam Theatre Company
  • Sound Scotland — Sound Festival
  • Stonehaven Folk Festival
  • Traditional Music Forum — aims to develop, sustain, support and maximise the potential of traditional music in Scotland
  • Ugie Voice — Ugie Voices is a new local singing group
  • Upper Deeside Art Society
  • Ythan Fiddlers — a Fiddle and Accordion group based in Ellon Aberdeenshire, dedicated to promoting Traditional Scottish Music
  • Ythan Singers
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    Cars — servicing and driving

  • Aberdeen Advanced Motorists
  • Advanced Driving Tutors across the UK
  • DJ Autos on Facebook — motor vehicle company in Aberdeen
  • DJ Autos Website — motor vehicle company in Aberdeen
  • Gordon Advanced Motorists
  • Gov.uk — Take a practice theory test
  • Grampian Motor Training Trust — financial support for the training and development of staff within the motor industry in the North East of Scotland
  • The Highway Code, road safety and vehicle rules
  • L and A Driver Training (Graeme Bowen) on Facebook
  • Safe Driving for Life — Helping you stay safe on Britain's roads
  • Safe Driving for Life — Free practice tests
  • Spectrum Driver Training (Steve Strachan)
  • Westhill Cars
  • Westhill Garage
  • Zap Map — map of electric vehicle charging points as well as a charging guide and info on connector types. As the UK's charging point infrastructure increases so is increased demand and usage of electric cars, according to Zap Map stats.
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    Design and Architectural Services

  • 3 tiers Creative — Prop and styling business based locally in Aberdeen
  • ASA Aberdeen Architects — representing 200 architects in Aberdeen and promoting the interests of Architects and Architecture within the area
  • Dimensional Survey & Design Services — Engineering, drafting, 3D spatial data collection, management, analysis and evaluation service to the oil and gas sector.
  • Groundwater Architectural Design — Architectural design services for Residential, and Commercial projects including: Industrial, Retail, Offices, Bars & Restaurants, Agricultural and Recreational developments
  • North East Scotland Preservation Trust
  • Portico Design chartered architects
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    Digital Services — Access to Information

  • Aberdeenshire Council Live Life Aberdeenshire — The Digital Library
  • Advocacy North East — only funded to deal with health and social care issues
  • Advocacy Service Aberdeen
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Planning Applications Search Tool
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Report an issue with Aberdeenshire services
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Request a bulky waste uplift
  • Apply 4 Homes — Aberdeenshire and Moray’s Housing Options Page enabling those that live in the area to apply for Council housing
  • Books for All — Download books for the Scottish curriculum in accessible formats
  • BT's Phone Book for residential properties, people and businesses
  • Charity Digital — helping charities save money on digital software purchases
  • Childnet International — a non-profit organisation with a Digital Leaders Programme working with others to help make the internet a great and safe place for children
  • Citizens Advice Bureau Aberdeen
  • Citizens Advice Bureau South West Aberdeenshire in Westhill is located at the shopping centre in Westhil and provides free, confidential and independent advice on debt, benefits, housing, utilities, employment problems, consumer issues, immigration and personal matters
  • Dracos — Find your nearest post box
  • Evening Express Archive for Westhill
  • Fill That Hole
  • Film Access Scotland — Members use film and filmmaking to change lives by developing personal, social and technical skills, improving employability outcomes and focussing on health and wellbeing
  • Fix My Street — Report, view, or discuss local problems
  • Google News Showcase — news aggregate service offering access to news articles usually behind a paywall
  • Gordon Rural Action — free, confidential, impartial and independent advice
  • Grampian Online
  • Freeview TV Guide
  • Freeview — How to Watch Freeview online
  • Hundred Zeros — Download Free Books for Kindle
  • Instant Google Street View
  • Listening Books — audiobook lending charity for those with an illness, mental health, physical or learning disability that find it hard to read the printed word
  • myAberdeenshire — offers a range of services from automatic alerts for jobs through bin collection dates to school meal payments and a parents portal
  • MyGEOAdventure App — enabling you to be inspired and active in a digital world
  • Police Scotland — Contact Details for Aberdeenshire South and the District of Westhill
  • Press Reader — Digital Newspaper and Magazine Subscriptions
  • Registers of Scotland — public registers of land, property, and other legal documents in Scotland
  • RNIB Newsagent — your accessible local newsagent giving you access to major daily and weekend papers that you can read with a screen reader
  • Pushing Out the Boat — North East Scotland's Biennial Magazine of New Writing and the Visual Arts
  • Royal Mail — Find a Postcode
  • Silver City Surfers — Help older people with modern technology
  • UK Safer Internet Center — online safety tips, advice and resources to help children and young people stay safe
  • Webopedia — The Online Tech Dictionary for Students, Educators and IT Professionals
  • Westhill and Elrick Community Council
  • Yell — The UK's leading online directory
  • Young Enterprise — Your Money Matters Scotland Edition – designed for use with young people age 14 – 16 in Scotland and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, risk, rewards, investments, student finance and future planning around student loans, tax and national insurance
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    Domestic Services

  • JGB Ironing Service
  • Oven Cleaning Services Stonehaven
  • Westhill Cleaning Services
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    Education

  • Aberdeen for a Fairer World — inspiring learning and action for a fairer world and working in the North East of Scotland, raising awareness and promoting understanding of global concerns and supporting active global citizenship
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Crombie Primary Contact Details
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Elrick Primary Contact Details
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Westhill Primary Contact Details
  • Aberdeen and District Bee Keepers Association — promoting the study and development of apiculture, and advancing the heritage, culture and science of beekeeping
  • Aberdeen City Heritage Trust — helps take care of the historic environment by making available a limited number of discretionary grants
  • Aberdeen History Society — a programme of talks on local history and other events
  • Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society — the custodian of the heritage of medicine in NE Scotland with an extensive library of resources and collection of historical medical instruments and artefacts
  • Aberdeen and North East Scotland Family History Society
  • Aberdeen U3A — provides educational, recreational and social activities for retired or semi-retired people who, after the completion of their many years of employment, or family obligations, wish to continue their life in the company of others, in Aberdeen and the Shire
  • Aberdeen Scottish Hellenic Society
  • Absafe — inspiring a passion for safety through education and engagement
  • Albyn School — An independent, co‑educational day and boarding school for pupils aged 2‑18
  • Association for Media Education in Scotland (AMES)
  • The Barn Arts, Banchory
  • Beavers Westhill Scout Group
  • Book of Deer — a tenth century illuminated manuscript from North East Scotland
  • Bookfeeding Project — help for communities to build libraries to promote equal education
  • Books Abroad — office in Rhynie with a shop Banff, accepts donations from schools and libraries and aspires to support education in developing countries worldwide by redistributing carefully chosen, second-hand books
  • Caledonia One School Global — providing a professional climate for learning which nurtures the development of each individual student’s potential
  • Crombie Primary School, Hay's Way, Westhill
  • Educate — works to empower children and young people in Honduras through supporting community-driven initiatives focused on education
  • Elrick Primary School, Rowan Drive, Westhill
  • Environmental Systems and Societies IB Standard Level — support for education web pages
  • Friends of the Elphinstone Institute — objectives of studying, recording and promoting the cultural traditions and language of communities in the North and North-East of Scotland
  • Exceed Trust — set up in 2008 with the goal of making a meaningful and lasting difference to the lives of children who have been marginalised by socio-economic circumstances
  • Ferryhill Railway Heritage Trust incorporating Ferryhill Men's Shed
  • Film Access Scotland — Members use film and filmmaking to change lives by developing personal, social and technical skills, improving employability outcomes and focussing on health and wellbeing
  • Garioch Heritage Centre
  • Girlguiding Scotland
  • The Gordon Cook Foundation — dedicated to the advancement and promotion of all aspects of education and training which are likely to promote character development, citizenship such as social, moral and health education
  • Grampian Music Therapy
  • Luke and Learn Guitar
  • Mains of Loirston — supporting agriculture education in Scotland and aims to support the education of School children or students and promote research in the practice of agriculture and encourages innovative on-farm practical research which benefits Scottish agriculture
  • Mashal Trust — committed to support education of children who come from underprivileged families – full time education provision to children and support for them throughout their educational career
  • The Nepalese Himalayan Association Scotland — promoting language, creativity and culture in Aberdeen
  • North East Scotland Scouts — prepares young people with skills for life
  • The North East of Scotland Music School — provides tuition at an advanced level for musically talented individuals of all ages
  • RSVP Charity — RSVP is a Scottish Charity dedicated to enabling Bugarama children to change their lives through education
  • Scouts 1st Westhill — Skills for Life – over 180 young people aged 6-14 from Westhill and the surrounding area experience everyday adventure and take part in a Scouting programme.
  • Scottish Culture — aim is to advance the education of the public in Scottish Culture and Traditions by the promotion of Scottish traditional music, song and dance through learning and participation in a way that fosters enjoinment, enthusiasm and a sense of community
  • Sea Cadets Bridge of Don — helps young people to learn teamwork, respect, loyalty, self-confidence, commitment, self-discipline and honesty in a safe and friendly environment
  • The Seven Incorporated Trades of Aberdeen — commitments to skills, people development and education of young persons living in the Aberdeen community
  • Scouthall Playgroup on Facebook
  • Scottish Economic Society — promoting the study and teaching of economics and facilitating discussion of Scottish economic problems and their relationship to the political and social life of Scotland
  • Blairs Museum — Scottish Catholic Heritage Collections Trust
  • Port Elphinstone Community House
  • Scottish Rural College (SRUC)
  • Station House Media Unit — Community Media development unit in Scotland, supporting residents in the seven regeneration areas of Aberdeen in radio and video production, traditional and on-line publications, music production and digital inclusion
  • Tarves Heritage Project
  • TechFest — provides STEM events throughout Scotland and promotes STEM subjects or Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics activities to young people and the wider community
  • Tullos Training — engineering training organisation providing advancement of vocational and further education in the development of individual capabilities, skills and understanding
  • W3schools — learn to write web pages
  • Westhill Academy
  • Westhill Academy Parent Council
  • Westhill Primary School
  • Westhill Rocks
  • The Wood Foundation — delivers, develops and supports a successful range of programmes enabling and empowering social and economic impact
  • Young Enterprise — Your Money Matters Scotland Edition – designed for use with young people age 14 – 16 in Scotland and covers topics including spending and saving, borrowing, debt, insurance, risk, rewards, investments, student finance and future planning around student loans, tax and national insurance
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    Engineering Services

  • AK Well Services — provides specialist advice and support to independent oil companies on all aspects of Drilling & Completion Fluids engineering, including associated areas such as solids control, drilling waste, cementing, and environmental services
  • Glens of Foudland Windfarm Community Trust
  • Green Thread Solutions — Transforming your environmental impact using the power of nature
  • i3 Energy based in Westhill — i3 Energy is an energy company focused on the development and production of high return hydrocarbon fields and discoveries
  • LiceComb Engineering
  • Opito — working together to develop a safe and skilled energy workforce
  • Society of Petrophysicists and Well Log Analysts (SPWLA) is the Home for Formation Evaluation and Petrophysics
  • Thin Jack — Revolutionary Splitting and Flange Separating Services and Flange Centric Systems – well applications include flange separation, tree cap, and bonnet removal. The company also breaks apart stuck items on heavy machinery in manufacturing plants
  • Turbine Efficiency — a range of light industrial gas turbine equipment solutions for the power, oil and gas and industrial markets
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    Event Venues, Local Organisations and Activites in Westhill

  • Ashdale Hall on Facebook — get timely updates about what's on at the Ashdale Hall
  • Ashdale Hall Website — find out about events at Ashdale Hall, Westhill as well as job vacancies
  • Clubbercise Classes in Westhill
  • Entier Services — From catering, housekeeping, maintenance and hospitality services for the oil and gas, education and business sectors right through to catering for corporate events, private functions and weddings
  • Milne Hall, Kirkton of Skene on Facebook — the place where most residents in the Kirkton of Skene get village news
  • Rotary Club of Westhill and District
  • Skene and Westhill Heritage Group — Society was formed towards the end of 2001. Following its winding up in August 2019 this new group was set up to carry on its area of interest in a more informal way and to enable those interested in the history of the area to meet and chat about relevant topics
  • Westhill Community Church
  • Westhill and District 41 Club
  • Westhill and District Men's Shed — open 3 days a week Monday and Friday 10-4 and Wednesday 3-8 and is a wood and metal workshop by Westhill swimming pool at AB32 6XZ. Men can meet for coffee, take part in the bridge club, play pool and darts and maintain the model railway.
  • Westhill Library Live Life Aberdeenshire
  • Westhill Wire on Facebook — News page established in 2014 by Ben Philip as part of RGU Journalism portfolio. Now graduated he is a reporter for BBC Scotland based in Aberdeen. Formerly he was a reporter and presenter for STV News
  • Your Event Scotland — support to organise and manage events
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    Financial and Legal Services

  • Acumen Financial Planning — Accredited and Chartered Financial Planning
  • Brimmond Financial Planning
  • ESP Book Keeping Services
  • Forbes Lawson financial advisers
  • Fyfe Moir and Associates Accountants Aberdeen
  • Grampian Accounting — help with accounts, payroll, VAT or Self-Assessment
  • McCue Wealth Management
  • The Society of Advocates in Aberdeen — plays a key role in the life of NE Scotland's legal profession and draws its membership from the legal profession and includes practising lawyers, supporting professionals, academics and members of the judiciary
  • Wealthcare Management
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    Gardening, Landscaping and Environment Services

  • Aberdeen's Horticultural Society
  • AJ Landscapes Company Aberdeen
  • Cromar and District Horticultural and Industrial Society
  • Community Land Scotland — established in 2010 as a response to the need for a collective voice for community landowners in Scotland. Vision is for the community ownership of land and buildings to be a significant driver of sustainable development across the whole of Scotland
  • Environmental Systems and Societies IB Standard Level — support for education web pages
  • Foxlane Garden Centre
  • Future Woodlands Scotland
  • Grass Guzzlers
  • James S Youngsen Building and Gardening Services
  • Kembhill Park Flood Group
  • The MacRobert Trust — proud keeper of an historic legacy, land owner to protect the countryside and charity
  • Maple Garden Services
  • Marshall's Farm Shop Garden Centre
  • Maryculter Woodlands Trust
  • The Natural Research Group — Leaders in Ecological, Ornithological, Raptor Research & Consultancy
  • The Open Space Trust — vision is to create a vibrant space, in the heart of Aberdeen, within the significant heritage of the building (parts dating back 1,000 years) for the people of Aberdeen and visitors to use and enjoy
  • The Seed Box — Horticultural and Outdoor Therapy Centre situated on Deeside
  • Paths for All
  • Westhill Fencing and Decking
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    Health and Wellness

  • Aberdeenshire Council — Health and Social Care Partnership
  • Aberdeen Medico-Chirurgical Society — the custodian of the heritage of medicine in NE Scotland with an extensive library of resources and collection of historical medical instruments and artefacts
  • Aberdeen In Recovery
  • Aberdeen Tivoli — information and advice to help people lead a better lifestyle. Healthy living, exercise and mindfulness are three keys to a healthy life
  • Asthma and Allergy Foundation
  • Bipolar Help and support group in Aberdeen
  • Friends of Anchor — The ANCHOR Unit is a collective of specialised wards and clinics within Aberdeen Royal Infirmary - the central hub of cancer and haematology care for the North-east of Scotland
  • Banks o Dee Gym — a not for profit charity – Qualified staff provide regular fitness testing and programs to help you achieve your personal goals
  • Brain Injury Grampian
  • Buttony Bear — supporting children and young people with a stoma
  • Cairoeas international palliative care trust — a Scottish-based charity which works in partnership with national and international individuals and organisations using a health systems approach to promote and faciliate the provision of high quality palliative care in resource limited settings such as developing countries
  • Cali Beauty — nail, eye and massage treatments
  • Camphill Wellbeing Trust — Combining conventional and AnthroHealth interventions
  • Choices Aberdeen — seeks to promote positive relationships and support and empower people in making choices which will enhance their physical, emotional and relational wellbeing
  • Clan Cancer Support in North Scotland
  • Drink Link — a charity which aims to link people affected by someone else's drinking
  • E.coli O157 & Haemolytic Uraemic Syndrome
  • emat Medical Aid — an Aberdeen-based charity which has been working in Pakistan for over a decade, primarily in the prevention and treatment of eye disease
  • Friends of the Neuro Ward — support to give care and comfort to patients of the Neuro Rehab Unit at Woodend Hospital
  • Fighting for Sight — a charity based in the Eye-out patient department at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary and seeks to protect the vision of the people of Grampian
  • Friends of Roxburghe House Grampian — Roxburghe House is a specialist palliative care unit in Aberdeen where care concentrates on symptom control for patients with life limiting illness
  • GCRA exercise classes — fitness, fun and friendship for those with a long term condition to improve wellbeing
  • George Crombie Trust — aids the prevention or relief of poverty, by providing accommodation and seeks to relieve those in need by reason of age, ill health and disability by making available financial assistance for medical treatment
  • Grampian Hospital Radio — broadcasts to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen Maternity Hospital and Roxburghe House to cheer up patients and distract them from their illness
  • Grampian Pain Support — supporting you with persistent pain
  • Grampian Music Therapy
  • Horizons Trust UK — Horizons was formed to help with the aim to improve healthcare in the Gambia through the construction of a high quality multi-million pound hospital project committed to deliver state of the art sustainable healthcare provision that is affordable for all Gambians.
  • Kadampa Meditation Centre Aberdeen
  • Kayleigh's Wee Stars — financial support for children with a terminal illness
  • Leemac Clinic — The UK’s First Centre of Excellence in Integrated Healthcare, a place to heal
  • LGD Alliance Europe for Complex Lymphatic Anomalies
  • Little Drops Charity Trust — seeks to improve health and education amongst marginalised communities
  • Mearns and Coastal Healthy Living Network
  • Miscarriage Support
  • Needs Scotland — North East Eating Disorders Support
  • NHS Grampian Endowment Fund — safeguards donations made by patients, families and users of health services using them to enhance services NHS Grampian provides
  • North East Rider Volunteers Scotland — mission is to deliver urgent medical samples, equipment and supplies between hospitals, healthcare sites and laboratories in the North East of Scotland when Healthcare Providers own transport services do not operate
  • The Potter's Hand — catering for people to help overcome addiction, illness, homelessness and unemployment
  • The Roland Sutton Academic Trust — aims to improve education and research in radiology in the North East of Scotland for the benefit of the population of Grampian. Note that only specialist radiologists can interpret and understand X-rays – GPs just receive an informative, easy to understand report to aid treatment of patients
  • Scottish Cannabis Oil Assistance Programme
  • Scottish Intensive Care — The purpose of the Society has remained the same since it was founded in 1991, seeking to promote educational, research and audit activities
  • Sensation All — Therapy-based sessions designed to improve an individual’s communication, learning, self-regulation, emotional awareness and general development
  • Serenity Nails on Facebook
  • Skene Medical Group
  • Shirley's Space — mental health charity for adults in Aberdeenshire
  • Stella's Voice — providing care, education, jobs while protecting the world's most vulnerable from human trafficking
  • Varapunya Meditation Centre accessible off Westhill Road on Facebook
  • Westhill and Banchory Health and Therapies Practice
  • Westhill Psyiotherapy
  • Westhill Swimming Pool on Facebook
  • Westhill and District Amateur Swimming Club — if you are interested in competitive swimming, and are aged between 7-11 years and would like more information, use the contact form on website or e-mail membership at westhilldistrictasc dot org dot uk
  • Westhill Swimming Pool Live Life Aberdeenshire
  • Xeroderma Pigmentosum community
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    Hairdressers and stylists

  • The Happy Barber Gents Hairdressor Mason Lodge
  • Hair By Leona Mobile Hairdresser
  • Julie Bell's Mobile Hairdressing
  • Lee Beaute Salon
  • Low and Co Hair Designs
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    Local charities with a focus on International Development

  • Aberdeen Mosque and Islamic Centre
  • Aberdeen Multicultural Centre
  • The Ann, Ciara & Niamh Copeland Trust Fund
  • The Acqu Initiative — works to raise awareness and funds for individuals around the world without access to clean water and sanitation
  • Elsulaimaniya Trust
  • From Scotland — Famine Relief for Orphans in Malawi
  • Gathimba Edwards — seeks to provide as many Kenyan children as possible with the opportunity of a bright future
  • Libyan Helping Hands — who seek to help refugee families and orphaned children
  • Malawian Initiative for National Development
  • Nansato — four nursery schools run in Mulanje, Southern Malawi
  • Children of Rwanda
  • Sisterland — looking out for and giving shelter to homeless mothers and children living on the street of Sierra Leone
  • South African Children's Charitable Trust — helps support vital organisations to ensure that along with the basic rights of food, clothes, accommodation and education, that the maintenance of the buildings and grounds that these children are living in are equally meeting their developing needs

    • IT and Electrical Services

  • Alert Electrical — Alert Electrical of Aberdeen are electrical contractors
  • Carol Leith Photography on Facebook
  • Carol Leith Photography Website
  • Cleveland Cable Company — delivering complete cable solutions
  • Computers and Integration, Inverurie
  • Cromar Future Group — aim to make science and technology accessible by bringing hands-on activities locally. Run the award winning Everything Electronics Youth Club
  • Cumming Fire and Security — consultancy advice and product services relating to Gas, Fire, Security and Safety issues
  • Garioch Camera Club
  • i-Protech — electrical, fire and security
  • PC Paul — domestic computer repairs
  • Photos To DVD, Stonehaven
  • Only Heating.com
  • Revolutionary IT from Chris Brown — IT support, CCTV, domain setup and management, remote support, computer servicing, upgrades, and maintenance
  • Sparks Facilities Solutions — service and maintenance engineers for electrical, mechanical, refrigeration, air conditioning, commercial catering appliances and renewables
  • Westhill Electrical Aberdeen
  • Westhill Marketing
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    Property and Legal Services for the Home

  • Aberdeen Considine — Property, legal and financial
  • Aberdeen Property Leasing
  • The Flooring Lodge at Mason Lodge — wide range of carpets, wood floors, laminates, vinyls and design flooring
  • Komandor Aberdeen — bespoke furniture for home and office
  • Mark Mennie Glazing — full range of services covering all aspects of glazing
  • Perfect Shine — Commercial Window Cleaning
  • Simply Ship — International Removals
  • Simpson Property Services Scotland
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    Retail

  • Abledeen Shopmobility
  • All about lemons — Products delivered to your door
  • The Blue Door Camphill Wellbeing Trust — Located on North Deeside Road, Bieldside, Aberdeen, the charity shop carries an extensive stock of donated items attracting a wide range of local customers
  • The Blue Door Charity Shop on Facebook
  • Costco
  • Costco Photo Centre
  • Instant Neighbour — food bank, food for children and equipment, gifts for children at Christmas and low-cost, high-quality, cleaned and tested nearly-new furniture and electrical items to the public via the St Machar shop
  • FlyCup Catering, Inverurie
  • Glencraft — the social enterprise that manufactures beds and is run by disabled people
  • Good Old Wood
  • Veelow — Ethical, sustainable clothing from Milltimber, Aberdeen
  • Veg oot — Online shop for treats that are gluten free, dairy free and vegan
  • Westhill Buy Local Spend Local
  • Westhill Shopping Centre operated by MAPP
  • Wood Shop from Wood recyclability, a social enterprise
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    Support with Sport Activities

  • Aberdeen Amateur Athletic Club
  • Aberdeen Cycle Forum — Aberdeen Cycle Map
  • Aberdeenshire Council — Core Paths Plan Maps
  • Aberdeen City Council — Cycling maps
  • Aberdeen Football Club Heritage Trust — a charity that seeks to care and expand upon the historical record and memorabilia of Aberdeen Football Club, its supporters and community
  • Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust — to provide support and opportunity to change lives for the better
  • Aberdeen Kayak Club
  • Aberdeen Mountain Rescue Team
  • Aberdeenshire Sailing
  • Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association and Hazlehead Academy Rowing Club
  • 107 Aberdeen Squadron Air Training Corps
  • Aberdeen Wanderers Rugby Club
  • Aboyne Gymnastics and Trampolining Club
  • Aboyne Canoe Club
  • All Trails
  • Andy Jackson Fund for Access — making it easier to get on the water
  • Apex Fitness and Performance
  • Auchenblae Golf Course, near Stonehaven
  • Banchory Air Cadets
  • Banchory Community Football Club
  • Banchory Cycles
  • Banchory Gymnastics Club
  • Banchory Skate Park
  • Banchory Stonehaven Athletics Club
  • Banchory Trampolining
  • The Bettridge Centre in Newtonhill is an independent community-owned and managed leisure centre which offers a wide selection of sports, community, arts and social activities
  • Beacon Rhythmic Gymnastics
  • Bikefix Grampian — Mobile Bike Repair Service
  • The Cairngorms Campaign Scotland
  • Colony Park Football Club
  • Cruden Bay Golf Club
  • Danscentre — Ballet, Jazz, Contemporary, Hip-Hop, Modern, Tap – for boys, girls and adults. Find the right class for you and your family
  • Deeside Rugby Club
  • Deeside Runners
  • Deveronvale Community Football Club — a Scottish FA Platinum Qualty mark club who offers football for all from 3 years old to Adult Football in both the Girls and Boys Pathways
  • Don District Salmon Fishery Board and the River Don Trust — protects and enhances stocks of salmon and sea trout across the district. The Board is made up of salmon fishery owners, angling representatives and representatives from local authorities, SNH and SEPA
  • Edinburgh Bicycle Cooperative, George Street, Aberdeen
  • Garioch Carriage Driving for Disabled Group
  • Grampian Disability Sport
  • Garioch Community Sports Hub
  • Garioch Gymnastics
  • Garioch Sports Centre and Gym, Inverurie
  • Garioch Rugby Football Club
  • Gordon Group Riding for the Disabled Association
  • Granite City Wanderers Hockey Club
  • Horseback UK — Using horsemanship and outdoor activities, you can get nationally recognised and accredited personal development programmes that encourage participants to acquire new coping strategies, life skills and build lasting resilience
  • Lawsondale Sports Club
  • LA Dance and Cheer, Portlethen
  • Munara Cycle Solutions
  • Newburgh Angling Club
  • Newburgh Thistle Youth Football Club
  • North East Scotland Cricket
  • Oldmeldrum Sports and Highland Games
  • Ordnance Survey OS Maps
  • Pam Dignan Highland Dance Classes in Westhill
  • Pedal Power Cycle Centre, Inverurie
  • Ride In Peace Adventures — coaching sessions, introduction tours and guided rides to take you from the Royal Deeside or Donside countryside with enduro trails in Aberdeenshire through big mountain adventures into the Cairngorm National Park
  • Ride On Sports Maintenance
  • Riding For the Disabled Association Incorporating Carriage Driving
  • Rosehearty Community Boat Club
  • Royal Scottish Country Dance Society in Aberdeen
  • Russell Anderson Development School
  • Scotland Cycle Repair Scheme
  • Scottish Mountaineering Trust — provides grants to projects and organisations that promote public recreation, knowledge and safe enjoyment of the mountain amenities, especially in the mountains of Scotland
  • Sea Cadets Stonehaven
  • Sport Aberdeen — committed to creating opportunities, inspiring people and changing lives through sport and physical activity
  • Stonehaven Gymnastics Club
  • Stonehaven Heated Open Air Swimming Pool
  • Sustrans — a charity making it easier for people to walk and cycle
  • Sustrans Map of Cycle Routes in Scotland
  • Sustrans National Cycle Network — a UK-wide network of signed paths and routes for walking, cycling, wheeling and exploring outdoors
  • Transport Scotland Active Travel
  • Transition Extreme — youth and community programmes, BMX and Skate Park, Climbing Wall and High Ropes course
  • Walk-ability — Specialising in providing walks in the Scottish Hills for the disabled and their carers
  • Westhill and District Community Sport and Leisure Hub (WDCSH) — making it easier for Westhill residents to engage in a healthier, more active lifestyle and provides info and advice on local sport and leisure activites
  • Westhill and District Community Sport and Leisure Hub (WDCSH) on Facebook — making it easier for Westhill residents to engage in a healthier, more active lifestyle and provides info and advice on local sport and leisure activites
  • Westhill Golf Club
  • Westhill Lawn Tennis Club
  • Westdyke Leisure Centre
  • Westhill Choi Kwong Do
  • Westhill Walkers
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    Support Services for families

  • Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust — to provide support and opportunity to change lives for the better
  • Abernecessities — aims to provide support to the children of disadvantaged families across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
  • Aberdeen Samaritans
  • Aberdeen Schools Rowing Association and Hazlehead Academy Rowing Club
  • Aberdeen Women's Alliance — a forum promoting and supporting equality for women who live and work in Aberdeen
  • Aberdeen YMCA — creating opportunities to empower children, young people, families and communities in body, mind and spirit irrespective of religion, gender, class or race
  • ACVO — provides support, learning and development opportunities for people and organisations through their programmes of work, whether you want to know more about volunteering, setting up and running a third sector organisation in Aberdeen or using social enterprise as a model to deliver social good, the ACVO website is your local starting point
  • African Women Group Scotland — Equality Empowerment Advancement
  • Alcolescents — young adult recovery
  • ASAS — social inclusion of all shapes and sizes – vision is to enhance life of Adults with Learning Disabilities (ALD) and Mental Health Issues, by promoting social inclusion to those individuals and to raise awareness and understanding to the public
  • Avenue — provides Mediation, Counselling and Child Contact Centres in Northeast Scotland and helps families work towards a brighter future in times of stress, change and conflict
  • Banchory Sports Village
  • Bair Necessities — pre-loved baby essentials for those in need
  • Beannachar is a Camphill Community near Aberdeen — large 19th century house, comprising two house communities (Sycamore and Silver Birch) and two purpose-built houses, Rose and Linden. With workshops for weaving, wool processing, woodwork, rug making, leatherwork, laundry and herb processing, and also additional co-worker accommodation (Rowan and Juniper). A large walled garden, a farm, a sports area and extensive woodland make up the 28 acres of ground – residential places for up to 20 young adults with learning support needs and up to 18 day placements
  • Boys' Brigade
  • Cairns Counselling — dedicated to providing counselling to the people of Aberdeen city and the surrounding area
  • Charlie House — support provided is driven by the needs of the special children and their families in the local Aberdeen area
  • Childcare International
  • City Moves Dance Agency — offers a number of different educational opportunities and outreach programmes
  • Club Sport Aberdeen — find a club near you
  • Community Link Childcare — after school clubs and childcare services
  • Community Offroad Transport Action Group — a member of the nationwide UK 4x4 Response network, established to support emergency services and communities in times of need
  • Create Aberdeen — Providing Activities and Support for Adults with Additional Support Needs
  • Dennis Law Legacy Trust — operates and delivers a number of ‘free to access’ programmes and positive destination activities that enable young people to take part in and gain access to sport and other creative activities within their local communities
  • Face youth — focus on education, livelihoods and health and well-being for marginalized youths and children
  • Garioch Community Kitchen
  • Grampian 50 Plus Network — opportunities for older people to lead more active, stimulating and rewarding lives
  • Grampian Opportunities — aims to promote employability, develop enterprise, and open up employment, volunteering and learning opportunities for people with disabilities
  • Grampian Opportunities Charitable Trusts — vast collection of links to sources of funding
  • Grampian Regional Equality Council — works to tackle prejudice and discrimination, celebrate diversity, build positive community relations, and provide evidence to change policy and practice
  • Grampian Womans Aid — offers a free, confidential and non-judgemental, specialist service to women, children and young people in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire who have experienced domestic abuse
  • Kemnay Breakfast and After School Club
  • Hand of Solace Befriending Service
  • Home Start Aberdeen — providing emotional and practical support to families and children at home
  • Home Start Deeside, Alford and Strathdon
  • Home Start Deveron
  • Home Start Garioch
  • Home Start Kincardine
  • Home Start North East Aberdeenshire
  • Hope Counselling
  • Inspire — day services, respite care and community support activites for families
  • Kincardine and Deeside Befriending — aim is to improve and maintain the mental and physical health of people over 55 who are socially isolated and living independently in the community
  • LATNEM Peer Support for Mums and Birthing People
  • Life Stars SCIO — Lifestars believe in ensuring that all children have the facility to grow to their greatest potential, and by incorporating active learning within schools, children with additional support needs can develop key life and social skills
  • Newton Dee — where Coworkers (live in volunteers) and Villagers (adults with special needs) live together – provision of houses where those that live at this place build homes together in a mutually supportive environment. Newton Dee Camphill Community helps support all community members to reach their fullest potential. This is all rounded out by a robust social, cultural and spiritual life
  • North East Scotland Scouts
  • Organisation for Nepalese Culture and Welfare
  • Newlife Aberdeen Charity — provides voluntary opportunities for those trying to get into work and can supply Aberdeen with youth workers, community support workers and support staff. Newlife provides a minibus to help those in Aberdeen who struggle to get around as well as to provide young people with holiday opportunities and to support other charities needing transport.
  • Pet and Companion — Canine Therapy and Pastoral Care for people in need of support
  • Rape Crisis Grampian — rape and sexual abuse support
  • Scarf — social enterprise that seeks to help alleviate fuel poverty
  • Scill Aberdeenshire — help for carers, parents and professionals to support children with additional support needs
  • Scottish Alliance of Regional Equality Councils — working to support and empower minority communities, particularly in relation to tackling prejudice and discrimination, promoting community cohesion and connections
  • Scottish Men's Sheds Association
  • Somebody Cares Scotland — free food, furniture, clothing and much more to the poor, the vulnerable and the marginalised people of the area courtesy of the kindness and generosity of the good people of Aberdeen and beyond
  • Sunrise Partnership — Supporting Children and Young People Through Loss and Bereavement
  • The UK Oil and Gas Chaplaincy provides pastoral and spiritual care to those who work or have worked in the industry, past and present, and their dependants
  • The Way Trust — set up to oversee work help schemes for men and women who have difficulty in gaining and sustaining employment and to give those out of work skills for work and essential social skills
  • We Too — a parent driven organisation, based in Aberdeen and covering the North East of Scotland to empower families of children with disabilities
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    Trades

  • Aberbuild (incorporating GI Cladding) — Extension and conversions, garden rooms, PVC Cladding, PVC windows and doors, composite doors, joinery, landscaping, building work
  • Aspect Consultants — a range of services including building surveys, architectural services and project management
  • B Mackland — a family run business offering a variety of services covering building renovations to joinery projects
  • David Massie Carpentry and Joinery Services
  • GPH Builders Merchants
  • The Little Plumber
  • John Mullen Joinery
  • Neil Craig Plumbing — Bathroom Installations in Westhill
  • R and D Services — Electrical, Gas, Plumbing and Heating, Joinery and multi-trade
  • Rae Brown and Co — Joiners and Building Contractors
  • Scottish Trades Excellence
  • T and M Slating Roofing Specialist

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    Religious Places

    Churches in Aberdeen

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