The history of Cove

Have a look at the history of the Community of Cove from the 18th century to the current day by Douglas W Gray.

The bustling community is far removed from a sleepy fishing village in the 1790’s of less than 300 souls  more...

Community Council meetings

All members of the Community are invited to the regular Community Council meetings which are held at Loirston Primary School.

Meet your Cove and Altens Community Councillors here

Come along to hear what's going on at 7:00pm on the following dates;

• 23^rd August 2010
• 20^th September 2010
• 25^th October 2010
• 29^th November 2010
• 17^th January 2011
• 7^th February AGM 2011
• 28^th February 2011
• 28^th March 2011
• 25^th April 2011
• 30^th May 2011
• 27^th June 2011

Chairman's Notes - August 2010

Andy Finlayson, Cove and Altens Chairman, provides an update on current matters affecting the residents of the Community of Cove and Altens. more...

Doonies Farm

Doonies Farm website - www.dooniesfarm.com

Doonies Farm sits on the cliff tops between Aberdeen Lighthouse and the village of Cove. The farm is home to some of Britain’s rarest breeds of cattle, sheep, horses, pigs, goats and poultry. It is a working farm that is managed using mainly traditional farming methods to encourage local wildlife to flourish too.

For generations of children, Doonies has been their first contact with the countryside.

Cities twinned with Aberdeen

Aberdeen is twinned with the following cities;

Does your group/organisation have interests you feel might benefit from making connections with or visiting other similar groups in one of our twin cities?

Find out more from Aberdeen City Council - Twin City Partnerships.

Local City Councillor Surgeries

If you would like to meet one of your Local City Councillors to discuss any matter then you can attend one of their surgeries listed under Useful Numbers.  Surgeries are available for Neil Cooney, Kate Dean or Callum McCaig.

A Design Workshop for the Sustainable Growth of Cove

The Prince's Foundation returned in September with updated proposals following on from their initial information gathering exercise in April.  It is regrettable that so few of you took the opportunity to attend the three evening sessions and put forward your views on their proposals.  Apart from the housing developments on the land backing on to Whitehills Road and Station Fields below Cove Rangers' ground they came up with some radical ideas for improvements to Cove such as providing a High Street and additional roads.  They are currently away refining their proposals in light of comments they received from you and will be returning in due course for further consultation.

Make sure you take the opportunity on their next visit to attend and make your views known to ensure that that their proposals are in accordance with your vision for Cove.

Please watch the press for the dates of their next visit.  Further details can be found here .

December 2008 update

63rd Aberdeen (Cove Bay) Scout Group

The Scout Group are looking for adult volunteers to help run their Beaver, Cub and Scout sections.   more...

53rd Cove Brownies

We have spaces for girls aged 7- 10 to join our Brownie Pack.

Meetings at Loirston School on Wednesdays from 6.15pm to 7.30pm

For more information please call Susan Baxter on 01224 890015

Altens Community Centre Appeal

Do you have any spare time and are able to help at Altens Community Centre on a voluntary basis?  More information can be found here .

Latest news

More information required

We are gradually building up information to place on our website.

If you run a community group or club in Cove and Altens and would like to have your details added, please contact us.

Community Centre Programmes

The 2010-2011 programmes for Loirston Community Learning Centre and Altens Community Centre are now available.   Have a browse to see what interests you.

Extracts from The Cove Chronicle

We now have a selection of articles from the current
Cove Chronicle.

Police News

Jamie Wade 0538 and Jake Woo 0991 are based at the Cove Police Station at the Cove Library, Loirston Avenue and look forward to meeting and assisting the Cove community.  Police newsletter August 2010

Cove Gala 2010 - Pirates!

The results of the Gala competitions can be found here.

Once again, Gala Day turned out to be a great success, despite the overnight “challenge” of gale-force winds destroying many of our tents.  Grateful thanks must go to the team of volunteers who turned up on the day to help us through this, and the many other difficulties of Gala Day, including Tommy, Brian, Ronnie, Colin, Kay, Christine, Rachel Jodie, Calum, Babs, David, Richard and Matt.

The Constitution of Cove Gala Committee states that it is about providing "a fun day out for the people of Cove".   I hope you will agree that we achieved this!  Thanks must go to our Princesses, Abby and Alex, who did a wonderful job of judging and presenting prizes.

A lot of hard work was undertaken throughout the year, by a Committee of only 6 people. With such a small number of Committee Members, it’s amazing that we managed to stage a Gala at all.  A big thank you to all the members of the Committee, to John Lyon of Loirston School for his unfailing help and patience, and to Dave Macdermid for once again, doing a sterling job as MC for the day.

The profits from this year’s Gala will be distributed among the local Groups and Organisations who took part.   This will take place at the AGM, which is to be held in Loirston School, on Thursday 30th September, at 7.30pm.

Also at the AGM, we will be looking for volunteers to form the next Committee.  The Gala is a great chance to participate in your community, so if you want to ensure that there is a Cove Gala 2011, please consider giving some of your time to join us.

Brian Dean
Chairman
briandean48@aol.com

Neighbourhood Bulletin

The latest Neighbourhood Bulletin provides information on local services, projects and events happening in your area.

Cove and District Gardening Club

Some members of our newly formed Gardening Club entered the Pallet Garden Group section of the Gardening Scotland exhibition at Ingliston, Edinburgh.  The title is "Old Cove".  This pallet garden represents the harbour area situated in the older part of our community - Old Cove.  You will also see a driftwood representation of an "old cove" sitting mending his nets.  We were awarded a place in the Show's Gold band and second place in the Dobbies competition.

"Old Cove" - (click image for larger version)

For more information contact Jim 894299, Andy 898286 or Claire 899181

It's Your Neighbourhood!

Cove and Altens Community Council - Cove in Bloom - entered the 2008 and 2009 Neighbourhood Awards scheme, which is non-competitive, and gained a Certificate of Merit on both occasions.

This year the scheme has changed its name to It's Your Neighbourhood.  We have entered again and will be working on the tubs, Community Garden on Cove Road and the flower bed at the north end of Earn's Heugh Road.  At the moment we (a small group of willing residents) are only maintaining the areas we have created so far.  Read more on this here.

Neighbourhood Bulletin - Cove

The February-April 2010 issue of the Neighbourhood Bulletin for Cove can be found here.

The quarterly Bulletin, from Aberdeen City Council, aims to keep you up to date with local events, services and projects.

September 2009 Neighbourhood Bulletin