AVA Magazine - September 22

4 AVA | September 2022
Magpie|Reducing our
carbon footprint with
funding success
Lesley Lawrinson
AVA Communications Officer
AVA’s social enterprise, Magpie, was recently awarded funds
from the Vattenfall Unlock Our Future fund to upgrade the
lighting in our shops to improve energy efficiency - one of many
steps in the pipeline to work towards reducing our carbon footprint
whilst still delivering the same great service. Magpie Manager, Marie-
Anne Brown (middle), attended a ceremony earlier this month at the
Garioch Heritage Centre, along with several organisations awarded
grants to improve energy efficiency.
Other fund recipients include Charlie House for funding towards their
Big Build project; a state of the art specialist care facility for children
with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, Inverurie Loco
Football Team who received funding to help towards the installation
of energy efficient LED floodlights and Newton Dee Store; a social
enterprise that works with adults with special needs, who received
funding towards the purchase of an electric delivery vehicle to allow
staff and service users deliver goods around the Camphill community.
The event also served as an opportunity for like-minded organisations
to network and gain some valuable feedback from similar projects
and past recipients of the Vattenfall Unlock our Future Fund.
Magpie would like to thank the Vattenfall Unlock Your Future Fund for
the grant that we have been awarded. It will make such a difference
to the lighting in the shops by reducing our energy costs, our carbon
footprint and making it an overall better working environment. It was
great to be invited to the Garioch Heritage Centre to be awarded
the grant, meet the other delegates and hear how the fund has
helped other local projects previously. We will certainly hope to use
the fund in future for other projects.
Marie-Anne Brown
Magpie Manager
Tillybrake Industrial Estate,
Banchory, AB31 5UN
Tel: 01330 823800
Email: magpie@avashire.org.uk