Peterhead: Focusing on the Future

04/09/2026

Would you like to be a part of Aberdeenshire Restaurant Weeks?

With over 70 businesses taking part in the 2024 event and even more joining in 2025, the event showcases a fantastic mix of cuisines, locations, and price points. It continues to grow in popularity with both businesses and diners alike, and we are delighted to invite you to be part of it once again.

A hugely successful and popular promotional event with both businesses and customers across the country and indeed the globe, Restaurant Week aims to increase footfall by showcasing the incredible food and drink offer across Aberdeenshire to locals and visitors, highlighting value, quality, provenance, and choice at a traditionally quieter time of year. This can result in:

*Increased sales
*Enhance reputation
*New consumer base

Register now for free at https://www.aberdeenshirerestaurantweek.com/business-registration

03/09/2026

Check out these amazing photos from Arbuthnot House in Peterhead - soon to be home to the new Museum of Aberdeenshire.

03/09/2026

New path officially opened at Peterhead’s Collieburn after community calls

A new path providing improved links for the community has been officially unveiled in Peterhead.

The establishment of the Collieburn path is seen as something of a ‘missing link’ for neighbourhoods accessing the popular Formartine and Buchan Way – or ‘liney’ as it’s better known – and local amenities.

Thanks to a successful £190,000 funding bid made to Transport Scotland’s Active Travel Infrastructure Fund, with additional grant support of £25,000 from the Coastal Communities Buchan Fund, the Aberdeenshire Council project offers a fully accessible route for pedestrians, cyclists and wheelers to enjoy.

The project supports the wider ambitions of the council’s Local Transport Strategy in delivering off-road opportunities for active travel and improving important community linkages. The new path will form part of the proposed path network to support sustainable access to the community campus, currently under construction.

While Collieburn is already well used by pedestrians, it remained inaccessible to many people and couldn’t be used all year round since the trodden paths had drainage issues.

The new sealed-surface path which meanders through the area and benefits from lighting will enable and encourage active journeys to work and to school and has been carefully designed to avoid any impact on existing tree planting.

Lighting and benches have also been installed and enhanced biodiversity opportunities including wildflower seeding will take place later in the year.

02/09/2026

Aberdeenshire Carer Support Service (VSA) and Aberdeenshire Health & Social Care Partnership are hosting a series of pop-up Carer Events in September.

Unpaid carers are warmly invited to drop in at any point, to learn what support is available locally, speak to staff about available help and find out about carers’ rights.

For more information on VSA Aberdeenshire Carers Service, including referral forms, carer information, events, leaflets and toolkits, visit www.vsa.org.uk/our-services/aberdeenshire-carers

Further information on Carer Support in Aberdeenshire can be found on https://www.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/social-care-and-health/caring-for-others including Carers' Rights, Short Breaks, Training and Qualifications for Unpaid Carers.

02/09/2026

🚀 Applications are now open for the NESIZ Skills Fund

The North East Scotland Investment Zone (NESIZ) Skills Fund has launched with up to £750,000 available to support projects that strengthen skills, develop talent and build workforce capability across Aberdeen City and Aberdeenshire.

We're looking to support new or enhanced activity that addresses identified skills challenges and delivers measurable benefits for the region's Green Energy and Digital Technology sectors.

✅ Green Energy & Energy Transition
✅ Digital Technology
✅ STEM & Talent Pipelines
✅ Employer-Led Skills Activity
✅ Entrepreneurial Skills Development

Funding is available through three routes:
🔹 Pilot Projects: up to £24,999
🔹 Medium Projects: £25,000 to £249,999
🔹 Large / Strategic Projects: £250,000 to £750,000

📅 Expression of Interest Deadline: 18 September 2026
📅 Full Application Deadline: 30 October 2026

📢 Please share with your networks

We're keen to reach businesses, employers, education and training providers, charities, social enterprises, public sector bodies and delivery partnerships across the North East of Scotland.

01/09/2026

Aberdeenshire Careers Expo - Peterhead

Are you interested in gaining employment in North East Scotland?

Join the Aberdeenshire Employment Support Team and over 30 employers for their Careers Expo in Peterhead, Aberdeenshire.

No tickets needed, just drop-in.
📅 Wednesday 9th September 2026
🕙 10am – 3pm
📍 The Palace Hotel, Peterhead

There will be a variety of workshops available throughout the day.
🎟️Register now for free:
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/aberdeenshire-careers-expo-tickets-1999033175039?aff=oddtdtcreator

01/09/2026

📅 Discover what's on next month

Whether you're starting a business, looking to grow, or keen to connect with other local businesses, Business Gateway - Aberdeen City & Shire have got a range of free events coming up next month.

Take a look on the link below and book your place.

🔗 https://buff.ly/OAi0kht

31/08/2026

⚓ Fishermen & Crews – Working hard at sea? ⚓

Check In on Your Health at Harbourside

FREE dental checks, physiotherapy, health checks and grip strength/functional fitness taster tests.

No booking required. Just come along and speak to the team and healthcare partners.

📍 Peterhead Harbour – 10 September 10am – 4pm
📍 Fraserburgh Harbour – 11 September 10am – 4pm

Follow North East Scotland FishMish

Seafit is an initiative from the Seafarers Hospital Society and Fishermen’s Mission delivered in partnership with Live Life Aberdeenshire.

29/08/2026

'Sisters are brewing it for themselves! Meet the family behind Peterhead’s Symposium Coffee'

Read all about the success story of SYMPOSIUM coffee house in this article by the Press and Journal.

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/7091694/symposium-coffee-peterhead-haggath-family/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

27/08/2026

There are only 3 days left to vote for your winners in the Heart of the High Street Awards, the vote closes on the 30th August.

So if you haven't voted yet, get clicking!

https://engage.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/aberdeenshire-heart-of-the-high-street-finalists

📣 This is not a drill, we repeat, this is not a drill!

There are only 3 days left to vote for your winners in the Heart of the High Street Awards, the vote closes on the 30th August

So if you haven't voted yet, get clicking!

Vote now https://engage.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/aberdeenshire-heart-of-the-high-street-finalists