2024 Aberdeenshire Grant Awards
We're thrilled to announce that the following projects were approved to receive a grant from the Jo Walters Trust in June 2024, to bring about education in the outdoors:
- Keig Primary School Parent Council, £1,000: to upgrade the rural village playground with a TrimTrak which can be used by the pupils and the wider community.
- Turriff Academy, £2,000: this will buy tents, cooking equipment and other outdoor kit to allow senior school pupils in S1 to S3 to get the benefit of outdoor expeditions.
- Midmill School Nursery, £500: to buy waterproofs, hats, wellies etc for Midmill nursery allowing the young children to benefit from time in the outdoors without being frozen and soaked
- Oakley ASN Ltd SC053128, £370: a donation to buy a disabled picnic table for 'Growing Futures' in Stonehaven, a project designed to give teenagers with additional support needs a nature-inspired journey of gardening and food cultivation.
- Braemar Primary School Parent Council, £500: this will allow the school to give teh children from Braemar primary a chance to try skiing at Glenshee over the 2024/25 winter
- Banff Academy: £1,973: to buy equipment to allow the school to expand Mountain biking / Cycling, Climbing and Duke of Edinburgh provision
- Elrick Nursery School, £140: this will allow the nursery to buy equipment needed to continue offering forest school for their youngest pupilis.
