Community Grant Scheme- Previous Projects

Marine Awareness Event

This event, was held at Balmedie by the NE LBAP to highlight the areas’ rich marine biodiversity and increase public awareness. The event emphasized how important the marine environment is and the connections it has to everyday life. By increasing our understanding of this special environment, it will show how our individual actions can have significant repercussions and how small changes can benefit a variety of species and habitats.

Port Erroll Harbour Gala Day

The Harbour Gala Day is a fun packed day out with the main emphasis on raising the awareness of the harbour, coastline and marine life. The event is organised by Port Erroll Harbour Trust to help raise funds for essential repair and maintenance of the harbour walls.

This annual event enables all the community groups from the village to come together. Last years groups included the Port Erroll Harbour Group, Football Club, Girl Guides, Mother and Toddlers, Peterhead Canoe Club, Over Fifties Club, PTA, the Lifeboat and Coastguard.

Stonehaven Harbour Day

The Harbour Festival is an annual event held by the Maritime Rescue Institute. The charity uses the event as a means to;

• Thank the community for its support throughout the year
• To raise awareness of the workings of the lifeboat station and its involvement in the community
• To encourage the local community to be more aware of their coastal environment and heritage
• To draw more people, including both tourists and locals, to an area of outstanding beauty

‘Every year the event has a selection of local pipers, stalls of interest including craft, heritage, Seawatch, coastguard, seafood cookery demonstrations and we involve search and rescue dogs, local Fire Brigade in an attempt to entice visitors to the area to appreciate a true flavour of coastal communities’ Ann Laing, MRI.

Beach Survey Project, Cairnbulg

Working in partnership with the Invercairn Community, Inverallochy Primary School, and Aberdeenshire Ranger Service the beach survey project aims to:

• clean up the beach in the vicinity of Cairnbulg harbour
• identify the probable sources of the rubbish found and to undertake a tracking exercise to confirm the major sources, using biodegradable markers
• engage in a publicity campaign to raise awareness of the problem, through press releases and  producing posters and leaflets to target the problem at source
• conduct a further beach clean event to tie in with Beachwatch to see if the amount of rubbish has been reduced in September 2007