Blairgowrie & Rattray Development Trust

Happy New Year! 🎉🎊🎉🎊 As we welcome #NewYear2025 and say goodbye to 2024, we would like to thank everyone who has supported or worked with BRDT over the last 12 months, helping to have a positive impact in our community. #volunteering #volunteers #community #communitysupport

Everyone at BRDT would like to wish all our volunteers, supporters, colleagues and friends a peaceful and happy Christmas! @discoverblair

Our AGM is on Monday, November 25 at 6pm in Blairgowrie Town Hall. We’ll be looking back at some of the highlights of the last 12 months and ahead to 2025. Find out more on our website here 👇👇 brdt.org.uk/mini-website-c…

We’re delighted that 2 of our projects have been given a boost thanks to the Perth and Kinross Warm Welcome Fund. The Wednesday Lunch Club and the BiodiversityBlair project have been awarded a total of £1535. Read the full story on our website here 👇 brdt.org.uk/mini-website-c…

It's here! The latest edition of our town magazine is out now and being delivered to some 5000 homes in Blairgowrie and Rattray by our team of fantastic volunteers🙌🙌 You can also read it online if you can't wait for it to arrive!👇👇 yumpu.com/.../blairgowri…... Enjoy!

Our wonderful second-hand book shop Booklore has a fantastic array of Christmas goodies in store just now - beautiful cards, wrapping paper, tree decorations, candle holders, notebooks and other items are available to purchase with all proceeds going to Booklore. Pop in and see!

It’s #TrusteesWeek so what better time to say a huge thank you to our amazing board of #volunteer trustees who work tirelessly behind the scenes to support everything that BRDT does on a day to day basis – thank you Linda, Tracie, Bob, William and Len for everything you do!

Just a reminder that the Local Place Plan survey for local residents in Blairgowrie and Rattray to have their say on what the future of Perthshire’s largest town could look like is set to close at midnight this Friday. Find out more here👇 brdt.org.uk/mini-website-c…

We've had some great sessions looking at what facilities are missing in Blairgowrie & Rattray. Last week we visited @SCYDTeam and the @ClimateCafeBlair as we continue to gather people's ideas and suggestions for the #LocalPlacePlan. Have your say here👇discoverblairgowrie.co.uk/lpp-survey

Did you know BRDT’s @BaRI Food Store also stocks #eco-friendly cleaning products and toiletries which can be refilled at the store, saving on the number of plastic bottles that end up in #landfill. The store is open Mon 2-3pm, Wed 4-5pm, Thurs 9.30-10.30am & Saturdays, 10.30-12pm

📣 Just a reminder that the deadline for submissions to the autumn edition of the Blairgowrie and Rattray Hub Magazine is next week at 5pm on Wednesday, 16th October. Articles of up to 250 words are free for local community groups - send your submissions to mag@brdt.org.uk

📣 Just a heads up that the deadline for submissions to the autumn edition of the Blairgowrie and Rattray Hub Magazine is coming up! 📅 5pm, Wednesday, 16th October Send your submissions to mag@brdt.org.uk - more info can be found here 👇👇 brdt.org.uk/brdt/hub-magaz…

If you have ideas or thoughts on what’s needed in Blairgowrie and Rattray and which spaces in the town could be used differently, please have your say! We’ll be at @SCYDTeam this Friday and at the @bookmarkblair festival over the weekend. Come and see us and #haveyoursay

We enjoyed a lovely afternoon in the sunshine in Rattray Community Garden yesterday at a wee get together to thank volunteers with our core projects. The enthusiasm and hard work of all our volunteers have a hugely positive impact on life in Blairgowrie and Rattray! Thank you! 🙌

Huge thanks to members of the City of Dundee Lions Club who recently presented volunteers who run the public toilets in Blairgowrie with a donation of £200 towards the ongoing running costs of the facilities. Read the full story here: brdt.org.uk/.../roar-some-…... 📷 @CraicN_Comms

Delighted to welcome some of the friends of Rattray Community Garden to a special event today. Volunteers showed our guests around, highlighting the progress that's been made over the past few months. Find out more about the garden here: discoverblairgowrie.co.uk/rcg/home 📷@CraicN_comms

Huge thanks 🙌 to the Blairgowrie Runners for their generous donation to our Wednesday Lunch Clubs, part of our @BaRIBiodiverse Project, and run by volunteers who host monthly in-person get-togethers over soup and cake. Read the whole story here 👇 brdt.org.uk/mini-website-c…

Did you know our BARI Food & Refill store stocks #eco-friendly cleaning products & toiletries which can be refilled at the store, saving on the number of plastic bottles that end up in #landfill. The equivalent of 1 bin load of plastic waste was diverted from landfill last year.

Enjoy walking? Why not volunteer to help deliver the Blairgowrie & Rattray Hub Magazine? We have a team of approx 80 people who deliver to some 5000 houses every quarter but we’d love to hear from anyone interested in getting involved! Email mag@brdt.org.uk 📷 @CraicN_Comms

Together with Blairgowrie & District Rotary, we're hosting an afternoon tea this Saturday to raise funds for the community-run public toilets in Blairgowrie and Rattray. There'll be sandwiches, home baking and a raffle - and you get to support a great cause - what's not to like?!