Schools are set to be invited to participate in a pilot scheme aimed at improving feelings of safety, reducing traffic volumes, and promoting active travel around pick up and drop off times.
Plans for the School Streets scheme, approved at today’s meeting of the Net Zero, Environment and…
Award-winning Scottish artist, Council Baby, the heartbeats of 60 Aberdonians, a 50m long multi-sensory walkway, a sprawling illuminated fungal network, and Scottish illustrator, Johanna Basford OBE, best known for her adult colouring book creations, are amongst a plethora of artists and…
An event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day will take place on Monday 27 January 2025 in the Cowdray Hall at Aberdeen Art Gallery.
Holocaust Memorial Day is held annually across the world to remember the six million Jews and other groups murdered under Nazi persecution, and more recent…
More than 6,000 people used the services of free night buses from Aberdeen City Council which went to key destinations across Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire at weekends in November and December and Hogmanay.
The weekend services, which operated from Saturday 16 November 2024 to Sunday 5…
Organisations are being encouraged to apply for the Fairer Aberdeen Fund to help tackle poverty and deprivation across the city.
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A toolkit to help city centre businesses find grants, training, and help navigating the digital world has been launched today.
The online toolkit has been developed after engagement with local businesses and includes information from a new more comprehensive tool for measuring footfall…
School meal debt, accrued by parents and carers, up until 31 March 2024, is to be written off to help families already experiencing severe financial pressures, Aberdeen City Council announced today (6 January 2025).
The Council will wipe out the debt totalling £411,977.90 as part of its…
As 2025 begins, Aberdeen City Council is already looking forward to this year’s cultural events calendar which promises to be spectacular.
Councillor Martin Greig, the Council’s culture spokesman, said: “2025 will be an incredibly important year for cultural events in Aberdeen. An…
The parents and carers of children in Aberdeen can apply for Primary One (P1) enrolment, from Monday 6 January 2025.
All children who will reach the age of five on or before the start if the new academic year on 19 August 2025 should start primary school in August 2025. Children who…
Thousands of pounds are to be made available to local community groups for projects that aim to improve Aberdeen North, South and Central Priority Neighbourhoods.
Aberdeen City Council’s Participatory Budgeting programme, known as UDECIDE, is inviting submissions for individual projects…
Two special saplings which were grown by Aberdeen City Council gardeners as part of project to grow seeds from atomic bomb-damaged trees at Hiroshima are to be turned into bonsai trees.
The nine-year-old ginkgo trees have been given to internally-renowned bonsai specialists Herons Bonsai…
Aberdeen Lads Club and Cornerstone have received donations from the Lord Provost’s Charitable Trust to assist them with their projects in Aberdeen.
The Lord Provost’s Charitable Trust is an independent fund, set up to support registered charities who operate and undertake charitable work…