Your Community, Your Future 

Marr Area Partnership (MAP) have been working on behalf of the Marr Local Community Planning Group to support communities that want to develop their own Community Action Plans. 

MAP can work with communities of all sizes on these plans adapting the process and timescale according to the size of the community.  MAP have worked with Banchory, Ballater, Aboyne and Tarland and are currently working with developing a process with Glenbuchat a small rural community in Strathdon.

What is a Community Action Plan?

It is an assessment undertaken by a community to reflect the needs and aspirations of local people - your assessment, your needs, your plan.

What are the benefits of undertaking an action plan?

• To identify what can and should be done to benefit the community
• To get people thinking positively about their community
• To reinforce the proactive role of the community association or community council to raise its profile
• To help to recruit more activists
• To publicise and generate support for current community groups and initiatives
• To provide evidence of community needs
• To make things happen.

A presentation by Marr Area Parnership on Community Action Planning can be downloaded here.

Here are the Community Action Plans for:

• Alford
• Ballater
• Banchory
• Tarland

Presentations from communities on their experience of undergoing community action planning were presented at the February round of Community Ward Forums.  The presentations can be viewed at the links below:

• Alford
• Ballater
• Banchory

We have also gone through a similar process with young people to produce the Marr Youth Action Plan (attached below) along with mindmaps of youth issues from the Aboyne, Alford, anchory and Huntly Community School Networks.

• Marr Youth Action Plan

• Youth issues Aboyne
• Youth issues Alford
• Youth issues Banchory
• Youth issues Huntly

If you as a community are interested developing a Community Action Plan and would like some support to do this please contact This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  For more information on Marr Area Partnership please go to their website on www.marrareapartnership.org.uk/index.html.  Please be aware that the Marr Local Community Planning Group are only able to support a small number of communities each year to go through this process.

Community Groups

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