Banchory Community Trust

20/05/2026

07/05/2026

30/04/2026

13/04/2026

Our tapestry team will be welcoming everyone from the community who wants to take a look at the first public display of the work on the Banchory Tapestry. You can come along this Friday 17th April 5pm-8pm and all day Saturday 18th April from 10am-4pm. The venue will be St Ternan's Church on the High Street next to Tease. We will have a full display of our art work and all the panels we have stitched so far. We'll also have the first showing of the top horizontal of Panel 1- the night time sky scene- with the hills and sky done in applique. Over the following weeks, this part will be further adorned with stitching to represent bird life, star constellations, fireworks and much more besides. Some of our wonderful volunteer stitchers will be there to show you how they are transferring the art work to stitched scenes. Please come along and meet us and feel free to bring family and friends with you. We look forward to seeing you soon.

06/04/2026

Today, April 6th is Tartan Day across the world. Our own Banchory Tartan has made it to all corners of the globe since it launched last summer. After lots of enquiries from you all about fabric availability, we’re pleased to say we have been able to order heavyweight 100% wool fabric which will be available to buy by the metre in a couple of months for all your projects from cushions to kilts!

26/03/2026

A chance to see what the Banchory in Stitches team have created so far in this fantastic community project, and an opportunity to find out how you might be able to get involved in the Banchory Tapestry. Dates for the diary below!👇

Our Wednesday stitching sessions have been branching out with a few of the volunteers trying their hand at needle felting ! Here is a photo of Sue Blow our embroidery expert working on some ideas to use around the base of our seasonal silver birch trees on the main vertical panels. If you can't wait to see the progress of the tapestry so far, we now have the timings for the first public display of what our amazing volunteers have achieved. Come and visit us on Friday 17th April from 5pm till 8pm or Saturday 18th April from 10am till 4pm. The venue will be St Ternan's Church on the High Street. More details to follow.

25/02/2026

13/02/2026

Sorry we haven’t posted for a while but with the festive period and the snow preventing our regular Wednesday meeting we are now back in business ! Here you can see the intricate work on two of the four Tree verticals evolving beautifully with Autumn (left) and Spring (right).
Sue Blow who keeps us all on track with the embroidery says: "The rain hasn’t diminished the attendance or the enthusiasm of the stitchers. There has been great progress over the last few weeks, possibly because the snow confined so many of us to home. We are now working in parallel: completing key sections of the embroidery on our beautiful linen fabric, while experimenting with new stitches, colours, threads and beads on our samplers. This way of working has been brilliant for building confidence and for sharing the work between us, and the samplers are developing a life of their own!"
We would happily welcome new members to the group. Our weekly session is every Wednesday from 2pm till 4pm at the Deeside Rugby Clubhouse. We realise this day and time will not suit everyone so we are currently looking at alternatives to accommodate more volunteers. For further information please contact us on our e mail: [email protected]

20/01/2026

Wonderful to see David one of our Banchory Area First Responders volunteers being recognised with this well deserved award.

An incredibly nice surprise in our email inbox today and thanks to Greg for the nomination, was an excellent team job start to finish.

01/01/2026

A guid new year to ane an' a' an' mony may ye see!