Heritage Museum DCC Contacts/News 12/13

Having been closed throughout 2020, Alford Heritage Museum expects to reopen on Thursday July 1st, following a programme of repairs and maintenance funded by Museums Galleries Scotland.

To ensure compliance with Covid advice, the museum will only be open Thursdays – Sundays and on Bank Holiday Mondays. Online pre-booking for ti med ti ckets will be in operati on to safely control visitor numbers; a one-way system will be in place around the museum; and the provision of contactless payment are just some of the changes which will be in place.

The Museum has just appointed two new Development Offi cers, again funded by Museums Galleries Scotland, to its team of volunteers. Lyza Riddell and Angela Main, who both live in Alford, will be with us for the next few months to help us to work with the community to att ract more volunteers and to help us with our forthcoming community engagement survey.

The involvement of our local residents is crucial to the future development of the museum and we hope that most people will respond to our consultati on when it is launched next month.

Lyza and Angela will be pleased to hear from any potenti al new volunteers and are happy to talk to local groups who might wish to use the museum and its collecti on for acti viti es. Email them at alfordheritagemuseum@yahoo.co.uk.

Like all att racti ons, we anti cipate a busy summer as people stay closer to home for their holidays. We have decided to off er free admission unti l the end of July to encourage local families who may not have visited before to come along and have a look. We will be asking for a donati on rather than an entry fee. We hope that you will come and visit us. Once we are open, online booking will be via our website: www.alfordheritagemuseum.com

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Your Elected Representa� ves:

Chair: Nicola Sedgwick Vice Chair Anne Miller Secretary/ Treasurer Margaret Henderson Minute Secretary Dorothy Anderson Alford Steven Graham Dorothy Anderson Margaret Henderson Bruce Sco� Vacancy x4 Lumsden/Kildrummy Sue Cross Tanya Reynolds Glenkindie/Towie Anne Miller Nicola Sedgwick Tullynessle & Forbes Vacancy x2 Montgarrie Gloria Malcolm Vacancy Keig Yvonne Buckingham Tom Milne Cushnie/Craigievar/ Fiona Bain Muir of Fowlis Vacancy Whitehouse/Tough Nicola Sedgwick Andy Travis Strathdon/Corgarff / Paul Toohey Glenbuchat Vacancy x2 Donside Community Council News...

By the ti me you read this , electi ons to Donside Community Council will have taken place in preparati on for our AGM on June 8th.

Like everyone else we have adapted to our circumstances over the last year. We conti nued to meet in the online world with varied success, given the remote edges of our area.

We conti nue to give support to local groups. At our last meeti ng a donati on was made to Alford Gardening Club to buy plants and supplies for the tubes and baskets around the village. Now that our local shops are reopening, the floral displays will bring cheer and brighten even the dullest of days.

If you take any photographs of the displays once they are in bloom, please share them with the Donside Community Council Facebook page. You can also find news and informati on from across our area and further afield on our page along with the dates of our meeti ngs, agendas and minutes of previous meeti ngs. Thanks to those of you who are already following us.

When do we meet?

Every 2nd Tuesday of the Month (except July and Dec)

What Time?

7.30pm – 9.30pm: tea/coff ee from 7.15pm

Where?

Alford Community Campus

Once Government restricti ons ease, anyone interested in what we do is warmly welcome to come along to any of our meeti ngs

If you wish to contact one of the representati ves please do so via the email addresses below and it will be forwarded: chair@ donsidecommunitycouncil. org.uk

Councillors' Contacts

Cllr Moira Ingleby 07770 410539 cllr.m.ingleby@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Cllr John Latham 07876 475038 cllr.j.latham@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk Cllr Gwyneth Petrie 07891 296064 cllr.g.petrie@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk

Cllr Robbie Withey 07388 956147 cllr.r.withey@ aberdeenshire.gov.uk

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