The Rotary Club of Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay

Each year, we invite local clubs and organisations to apply for funding through our Funds4You program towards specific projects that they might have during the year. The funding criteria should include help towards the purchasing of equipment to be used by their organisation. This year we received a number of applications, and were able to assist most of them
At a meeting of our Club, we were able to present cheques to the successful applicants, several of whom are shown in the attached photos.

Great to catch up with Steve Wright from The Rotary Club of Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay today. Visitors Day at RYLA Boys was great fun with visitors from across D1010. It stayed dry during the all-important morning events and the visitors didn’t need an ☔️ 😊

Thanks for visiting and glad you were able to see the antics this morning.

The Rotary Club recently had a visit and tour round the Boskalis DSV, BOKA Atlantis, an evening well spent in the new Aberdeen South Harbour, and everyone thoroughly enjoyed getting to see what goes on aboard these complex vessels.

Working in the North Sea, the Atlantis is a Hybrid Diesel Electric Dive Vessel, with an energy storage system, operating on complex projects throughout the North Sea. The vessel is equipped with twin Dive Bells, 18 man capacity for deep sea diving, as well as ROV and a 140T subsea crane.

🐥Duck Race 2024🐥

Thank you to each and every one of you who bought ducks for our Annual Duck Race which took place this morning and a huge shout out to Jim Reid Vehicle Sales & Service for sponsoring the event!

The winners are:

🐥 1st place winning £100 - Audra Booth (38)
🐥🐥 2nd place winning £50 - Claire Turnbull (272)
🐥🐥🐥 3rd place winning £25 - Alison Johnston (408)

Well done to the winners and thank you to those who helped out today and to our spectators😉

All set up in Kintore for the Kintore Summer Festival. Kintore Summer Festival

We have tin can alley, and play your cards right!!!

Come along and say hello and have a go!

***RYLA Camp Opportunity***

We are funding a place on their years RYLA camp, unfortunately our candidate can’t make it so we are looking for some 16 or 17 who would like the opportunity to attend this amazing camp in July.

Get in touch if you know of someone who would be interested, and benefit from this experience! We have had brilliant feedback from past candidates who always get a lot out of it. A week of fun, adventure and making new friends.

There is a boys camp and a girls camp, middle of July. Look at www.ryla1010.com for more info.

Email [email protected] if you like to nominate someone and discuss.

We need to make a decision on Monday on next steps, so short notice, but let us know!

They only went and came second in the Area Final today🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳
Next stop, the Beach Ballroom for the District Final!
Well done Team Kintore👏🏻

Good luck to Kintore Primary School, who won our club heat back in March, in the Area round of the Primary School Quiz tomorrow!

Good luck to Kintore Primary School, who won our club heat back in March, in the Area round of the Primary School Quiz tomorrow!

Hope everyone is having a nice Easter Sunday.

This week the Rotary Club have Scotland’s Charity Air Ambulance coming along to present and tell us what they do. Having attended a talk by Jim recently, it’s a very interesting and informative evening.

If you want to come along just let us know, 7pm at Kintore Church Hall, on Thursday 4th April!!!

1 week left to get applications submitted.

***Rotary Funds4U Launched***

The Rotary Club are pleased to announce the launch of our Funds4U initiative.

We welcome applications for funding from local community groups, from Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay, and surrounding areas for up to £500.

See more details in image, deadline is 29th February. Message us for any further details and email [email protected] with your application.

Merry Christmas Everyone! We hope the festive spirit is starting to spread. We are delighted to now be able to share with you the details of when we will be es**rting Santa round the area this year.

Thursday 7th Dec - Conglass, Inverurie
Friday 8th Dec - Kemnay
Sunday 10th Dec - Kintore
Monday 11th Dec - Westgate, Inverurie
Tuesday 12th Dec Osprey Heights, Inverurie
Wednesday 13th - Osprey Village, Inverurie

Please check this page each day for a link to a tracker where you can follow Santa’s progress round your area. Then all you have to do is listen out for the sleigh and follow the tracker so that you can come out and see Santa when he passes.

All money raised will go to local charities and good causes in the Garioch area.

We are also on the look out for any volunteers who could help us es**rt Santa on his journey. If you are a member of a local community group who is able to help, please get in touch and we would be happy to make a donation to your cause as a thank you.
We look forward to seeing you all out there.

*We have to add our usual note that we are sorry that we can’t take Santa to every street in the area and that we can’t guarantee which streets Santa will visit in each area advertised. We are a small group of volunteers with jobs and families, spending some time trying to raise some money for good causes while hopefully spreading a bit of cheer. Where we take Santa depends on many factors like how easy it is to turn the sleigh in each street, how many houses have children, etc. Plans can also be affected by the weather and how many volunteers we have that day. If you really want to see Santa please follow the tracker and come find him. Moaning on social media will not make us more likely to take Santa down your street.

Club members are selling raffle tickets in Bon Accord today to win a car, supporting Charlie House.

It’s been a busy afternoon, we’re back on the 9th December so if you don’t have a ticket be sure to visit then!

Rotary Club members were out and about this morning to lay wreaths at Remembrance Sunday ceremonies around our communities, attending at Kintore, Kemnay, Kinellar and we also laid a wreath on behalf of the Council at Hatton of Fintray.

Marshalling at the Kintore parade also kept members busy as the Kintore pipe band led the route to the church.

Doors open 1:30pm tomorrow ladies, see you there 🎉🥂

Tickets on sale now🥂🎉

Special Raffle Prize “EMOZIONI Ear Rings” donated by Sinclairs for our Intoxicating Tea Party Saturday 11th November 2023 at Hatton of Fintray Hall
Always a fabulous afternoon of cocktails, fun & laughter … lots of laughter 🤣🤣🤣
We can squeeze a few more in, get in touch for tickets 🎉🍹🥂🍸🧁🍰🥪

Tickets on sale now🥂🎉

Back in 2021 our Band turned 100 years old but unfortunately Covid put a stop to all the events we had planned. It seems wrong to let this special birthday pass by without recognition so we have decided to hold a belated celebration this year instead.
This will be a chance for Band members past and present, families and friends, supporters, and all in the local community to come together and celebrate this huge milestone.
We would really appreciate your support to make this a night to remember!!
Please use the link below to purchase tickets - any queries please don’t hesitate to message this page or speak to any Band member.

Tickets are only available until Wednesday 13th September - don’t miss out!!!

https://tinyurl.com/kintore100

Spotted on holiday! But where am I🤔?

We’re all set up at the Grove Care Home in Kemnay, stalls and games around, ice cream and BBQ.

A busy day at Blast from the Past!!

Thanks to all who bought raffle tickets, still some time left!!

A wee visit too from “Boaby”….. !!!

Thanks too Ythan Valley Rotary for coming along and helping too!

We’ll be selling tickets at the Blast from the Past event in Thainstone tomorrow! The raffle car will also be on display.

Come over and get your tickets early if you are visiting!!

Charlie House HQ
C & M McDonald
Blast From The Past with AW Autotech Ltd

📢 Have your heard? Our Rotary x Charlie House fundraiser is back - where you can bag yourself a new Suzuki Swift for just £1!

When you get your ticket, you're not only in with the chance of getting a brand new car 🚗 - you're also...

⭐ Giving children with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions, and their families, the chance to try fully accessible activities together

⭐ Enabling families to engage socially and meet others with similar stories

⭐ Supporting the families to spend quality time together, making precious memories to treasure

Get your tickets now from either of our Aberdeen locations 👇

🎟️ ReCHarge Café, Bon Accord, Upper Mall

🎟️ Curated Market, Bon Accord, Lower Mall

🎟️ Charlie House Head Office - Carden Place

Click the link in our bio for more information and full T&Cs

Special thanks to , North East Rotary Clubs and for helping us put on this amazing fundraiser.



District Governor Handover lunch in Aberdeen today. Good luck Jim😃

We were delighted to welcome John Dossett and his family to our meeting tonight, where we presented him with the Citizen of the Year award.

John was nominated due to the support he has given to the Kintore community for years, with many pies, sausage rolls and hot drinks handed out on chilly nights, suppling to local causes when needed and doing what ever he can to help all year round.

I’m sure you will all agree, a very worthy recipient of the Citizen of the Year award!

Well done John, from all of us at the Rotary Club of Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay!

⭐️WINNER OF THE GALLON BOTTLE OF WHISKY⭐️

Congratulations to Joe Mullin, a resident of Blackburn, who won the gallon of whisky which we sold numbers for at Kintore Summer Festival and Kinellar Gala. Enjoy😎

Thank you to those who purchased numbers for the gallon of whisky raffle at Kintore Summer Festival on Saturday.

The remaining numbers will be on sale at Kinellar Gala this Saturday after which the winner will be drawn😃

We are doing a collection of items for Abernecessities in Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay.

After hearing about the amazing work the charity do, we wanted to give our communities somewhere to drop items off locally.

Currently, they are looking for the following:

- Nappies
- Formula Milk (currently facing an inflation rate of 11%)
- New underwear and socks for Boys and Girls of all ages
- New toiletries for Babies and Teenagers

No child should go without, anything you can donate will be well received by young people throughout Aberdeenshire.

For drop off points please message us, in Blackburn the drop off point is Kinellar Hall (contact hall staff or Steve Wright). We’ll let you know where to drop in Kintore or Kemnay.

Many thanks.

🐥Duck Race 2023🐥

Thank you to each and every one of you who bought ducks for our Annual Duck Race which took place this afternoon and a massive shout out to Jim Reid Vehicle Sales & Service for sponsoring the event!

The winners are:

🐥 1st place winning £100 - Lisa Pratt (31)
🐥🐥 2nd place winning £50 - Moira Scott (116)
🐥🐥🐥 3rd place winning £25 - Tammy Wilson (723)

Well done to the winners and thank you to those who helped out today and to our spectators😉

Our local sponsorship continues tomorrow………. The Annual The Rotary Club of Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay Duck Race is tomorrow.

With over 100 ducks sold at the Kintore Summer Fare today 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 and the forecast to be ☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️☀️ it’s going to be a great event.

Starting point at the bridge beside Aquaterra , Midmill Ind Estate 12:30 .

We are set up and ready at the Kintore Summer Festival!!

Tin Can Alley

A gallon of a whisky, £2 a number!

And we are selling ducks for the race tomorrow lunchtime!! Get in fast.

We’ll be at the Kintore Summer Festival tomorrow with a games stall plus you’ll be able to buy ducks for our annual duck race on Sunday which is sponsored by Jim Reid Vehicle Sales & Service😎