E-Bulletin
Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug
Partnership (ADP)
March 2017
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Welcome to the March edition of Aberdeenshire ADP E-Bulletin where we would like to
showcase our work as well as give you as much local information as possible.
We hope you will find these updates informative and interesting.
Please feel free to contact us with any feedback, comments or suggestions for anything
you would like us to cover in future editions. We are always striving to improve the
bulletin and your input is invaluable.
In this issue:
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Alcohol marketing and
children
‘Your voice your choice’
Community Forums’ news
Recovery cafés
Advice and help
Conferences and events
and more …
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ADP NEWS
Huntly Recovery Hub supported by Tesco
Here’s their thank you to Tesco:
“Dear Tesco's
On behalf of the The Huntly Recovery Hub, we would like to thank you for the wonderful stuff you
have supplied to us over the past few weeks through the fair share food cloud initiative.
Some product we have been able to store and keep for our prize bingo event which was held today.
We had 25 people in total, some of which joined us from our partnered recovery cafes from
Fraserburgh & Banff.
The prizes were fantastic, the food was excellent and a great time was had by all.
A very big thank you to Tesco's Huntly for all their support towards the Huntly Recovery Hub.
It certainly is very much appreciated.
Kind Regards
Diane Ord, Robert Reid, volunteers, Cairscotland, Aberdeenshire's Drug Partnership and all
attendants at The Huntly Recovery Hub.”
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Alcohol Marketing and Children
People who start drinking early in life are more likely to become binge and problem drinkers.
Underage drinking can affect normal brain development and present other significant risks to
children’s wellbeing.
Studies observing effects on children consistently report that exposure to alcohol marketing leads
young people to drink more, and to drink at an earlier age.
The current self-regulatory systems that govern alcohol marketing are not meeting their intended
purpose of protecting children from exposure to alcohol marketing or alcohol marketing designed to
particularly appeal to children. Existing UK advertising codes are so weak that young people are
regularly exposed to alcohol marketing which they find appealing.
Such permissive regulation has helped normalise alcohol so that many see it as an unremarkable
product and forget the harm it can cause. For example, licensing officers regularly hear enquiries
from commercial soft play areas and other unsuitable contexts for an alcohol sales licence due to
‘customer demand’.
A survey Alcohol Focus Scotland carried out
demonstrated the impact of such normalisation by
finding that 10 and 11 year olds were more familiar with
certain beer brands than leading brands of biscuits, crisps
and ice cream.
Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drugs Partnership Lead
Officer Wayne Gault discovered the weakness of the
current system after raising concerns with the industry
funded Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) following a
recent incident.
“In the summer holidays I took my 13 year old son and a
group of his mates to see ‘Central Intelligence’, a 12A
juvenile comedy at the local cinema.
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I was astonished to find that before it ran the audience, mainly teenagers, were exposed to almost
20 minutes of back to back alcohol adverts. ASA’s weak response, almost 5 months later, showed
that they just don’t take this issue seriously.
Our kids are precious and they deserve to experience an alcohol-free childhood free from exposure
to alcohol marketing.”
Alcohol marketing has no place in childhood. All children should play, learn and socialise in places
that are healthy and safe, protected from exposure to alcohol advertising and sponsorship.
Growing concerns about the impact of advertising normalising alcohol as an ordinary safe product
rather than the carcinogenic and addictive drug that it is has led to the launch of the national
campaign #alcoholfreekids.
The campaign seeks to raise awareness that the current advertising codes of conduct are failing to
protect children, and that it is time to take effective action in Scotland to ensure that children can
play, learn and socialise in places that are free from alcohol marketing.
Local Alcohol and Drug Partnerships, NHS Grampian, Children 1st, the Scottish Cancer Prevention
Network and the medical Royal Colleges, as well as the majority of MSPs (72) and various local
politicians have signed up to the campaign pledge:
"I believe that alcohol marketing has no place in childhood. All children should play, learn and
socialise in places that are healthy and safe, protected from exposure to alcohol advertising and
sponsorship."
Now the campaign is asking children and young people's organisations, health groups and anyone
else concerned about this issue to also sign up.
You can play your part too by:
1. Signing up to the pledge at http://www.alcohol-focus-scotland.org.uk/campaignspolicy/alcohol-marketing/
2. Raising concerns with the ASA should you encounter any examples placing youngsters at risk
by emailing [email protected].
3. Encouraging your local MP to campaign on this issue for the adoption of better protections
for our children. Do they think that it is acceptable that the Government prioritises
commercial interests over the wellbeing of our children through tolerating lax regulation and
industry drafted guidelines that consider it OK to expose children to alcohol advertising in
cinemas? Alex Salmond recently raised the issue with the Minister responsible for Digital
and Culture, Matthew Hancock.
Background
The ASA is a non-governmental organisation voluntarily paid for by the advertising industry.
ASA is responsible for the regulation of non-broadcast advertising against a code of practice written
by the advertising industry.
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There are no rules that prohibit exposure of alcohol advertisements to under-18 year olds unless
25% or more of the audience is under-18 or the movie is a super-hero comic book spin-off or a 15
rated film on supernatural subjects.
As much as 40% of cinema advertising time can be dedicated to alcohol advertising.
'Your Voice Your Choice?'
Your Voice Your Choice is a project that involves local people. Residents will decide for themselves
what projects are needed to improve health and the environment for our communities’
wellbeing and be involved in delivering these. This is known as Participatory Budgeting. Following a
successful pilot in Fraserburgh and Peterhead last year the project has now been expanded to
include other areas of Aberdeenshire:
Buchan - Peterhead
Banff and Buchan - Fraserburgh
Formartine - Turriff
Garioch - Whole of Garioch
Kincardine & Mearns - Mearns Coastal Area (St Cyrus, Johnshaven, Gourdon, Inverbervie)
Marr - Whole of Marr
Participatory Budgeting (or PB) is the term used when local people decide how public funds are
allocated and used. Participatory budgeting always involves members of the public deciding how to
spend a public budget.
For more details and to find out how you can apply click here
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ADP Community Forums Updates
ADP North Community Forum
ADP North community forum looks at priorities for the year ahead
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On 23 February the ADP North community forum had its first meeting of 2017 in the Public Hall in
Boddam. A total of 23 community members in recovery, activists of forum funded projects, and
representatives of health, social care and support agencies all met to reflect on the achievements of the
past year and to discuss priorities for the year ahead.
Inspired by film footage from last year’s ‘3 Forums 1 Voice’ event and
supported by slide images from all the forum’s past year activities
participants listed their personal activity highlights of 2016, and what they
felt was achieved in the North. Here are some snippets of participants’
feedback:
‘becoming part of the North forum gave me the confidence to return to work.’  ‘recovery cafes
being started – they are so powerful for people and supportive as well as a confidence booster.’
‘getting involved in local community events such as Super Saturday is great for trying to drop the
stigma and let others see that people can recover’ ‘every week we manage to help someone in some
way, which is great’ (comment from representatives of a project funded by the North forum) ‘getting
people to attend conversation cafes and get their say in what they want to happen’ ‘The 3 Forums 1
Voice event’ ‘production of high quality videos that spread the
message’ ‘Recovery week events - in particular recovery cooking
in Fraserburgh’
The forum co-chair Brenda McGinlay also presented an overview of
the work of the ADP North community forum in 2016, the
priorities, the actions and outcomes and also some fast facts about
participation and reach as shown in the slide to the right.
It was then the turn of the present forum membership to discuss the approaches and priorities for the
coming year in conversation groups. A set of questions helped to guide the discussion.
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Aberdeenshire has identified ‘Changing Aberdeenshire’s relationship with Alcohol’ as one of
three community planning priorities. What does this mean for us and how can we put this into
local action?
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How can we continue to promote recovery and increase involvement in the forum’s activities?
Recovery promotion:
What kind of activities, projects or initiatives should the forum focus on in the coming year?
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Lively group discussions produced an extensive list of suggestions, views and actions to pursue. All the
discussion outcomes and feedback from forum membership will be collated in a detailed report and will
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form the back bone of a development and action plan for the ADP North community forum for 2017.
This plan will be presented at the next ADP North community forum meeting in Banff on 21st April.
Some of the suggested activities and initiatives for the forum to focus on in the coming year:
 Work together with local partners to fund and support the development of resilience
building activity projects for young people to reduce the risks of them getting into habits
of drinking and associating this with a good time
 Fund and support the development of a podcasting project, enabling community members
to learn podcasting skills and to produce podcasts relating to alcohol awareness and
recovery
 Fund and support the development of further recovery cafes/hubs/initiatives across the
North
 Promote physical and mental wellbeing as an important aspect of recovery by focussing on
the development of local initiatives such as walking for recovery etc.
 Link with employability agencies with a view to develop information packs for employers
including media testimonies (film/podcast) of lived experience and success stories
 Expand promotional work by focussing on contributions to community newsletters and
media
If you are interested in more information or would like to have access to the report and plan please
contact the Community Engagement Officer Tanja via email [email protected] or
phone her on 07500 095790 or subscribe to the forum mailing list by contacting
[email protected] .
North Forum meeting dates for 2017 are as follows, please note the change for April’s
meeting –
Friday 21 April Macduff Town Hall 2-4pm, tea and coffee from 1.30pm
Thursday 1st June MAC B Community Centre in Mintlaw
Thursday 7th September Solid Rock Cafe in Fraserburgh
Thursday 23rd November St Andrews Church Turriff
For June, September and November meetings Tea/Coffee is available from 9.30am with the
meeting starting at 10am.
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ADP Central Community Forum
Central Forum meeting dates for 2017 are as follows:
Tuesday 25th April: 11.00 – 2.00 (refreshments at 12.30) Insch Community Centre (hosted by
Inspiring Insch)
Friday 30th June: 1.00 – 3.00 (refreshments at 12.00) Linden Community Centre, Huntly (hosted by
Huntly Recovery Hub)
Thursday 24th August: 1.30 – 3.30 (refreshments at 1.00) Meldrum Town Hall
Thursday 16th November: 1.30 – 3.30 (refreshments at 1.00) Tesco community space (Hosted by
LINKS Recovery Café)
ADP South Community Forum
The ADP South community forum is holding its AGM on Tuesday 2nd May 2017 from 1pm - 4pm
at West Church in Banchory, AB31 5TB.
Please join in for a sandwich lunch prior to the meeting from 12.30 onwards.
It would be great to see as many people there as possible as the forum looks to appoint new
members for its committee. Please get in touch if you require transport.
As of May the South forum will have 2 vacancies, the chair position and the position of secretary.
Any interested forum members, and in particular community members, are encouraged to consider
this great opportunity to take up a role within the forum committee and to be actively involved in
shaping the work of the South forum.
If you would like to stand for committee or require more information about these positions please
get in touch with [email protected] , Mobile: 07500 095790 before 18th April
2017 or with [email protected] thereafter.
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Events
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Recovery Cafes
Cornerstone Connects Peterhead Recovery Cafe
Every Thursday, 4.30pm-6.30pm, Cornerstone Connects, 1 Skelton Street, Peterhead,
AB42 1HR
Are you suffering from drug or alcohol addiction/misuse? Do you feel that you are using a
substance so that you can cope with day to day life?
Come along to our support sessions where we offer a friendly and welcoming atmosphere
for people considering recovery, or on their recovery journey. Free refreshments and soup
are provided.
www.cornerstone.org.uk
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Banff Bridge Recovery Café
is every Friday 4-6.30 now at Macduff Town hall.
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New Recovery Café in Banchory
Banchory Recovery cafe is Wednesdays 1.30-3.30 in Number One, Scott Skinner Square, Banchory.
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LINKS Recovery café is now combining with The Conversation Café which meets at the Garioch
Community Kitchen in the Wyness Hall, Jackson Street, Inverurie. This new joint enterprise will be
held fortnightly and will start on Wednesday 15th February from 1.00 – 3.00. It is hoped that having
access to cooking and baking facilities will encourage more people to come along and get involved.
One of the planned activities is a talk on home energy from SCARF which will take place on the 1st
March so why not come along and find out how you can cut down on your heating bills.
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Advice and Help
V1P Grampian opened Monday 12 December 2016. They aim to
provide a comprehensive Veterans Service.
Meetings in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire
natdomesticabuseforcedmarriagehelpline.org.uk/
My Family and Alcohol is for parents, wives,
husbands, partners, grandparents , aunts, uncles,
cousins.. basically any family member…. who is
worried about alcohol in their lives.
DRiNKLiNK is a new concept, offering something completely
different to what currently exists.
Our Aim: To link people affected by someone else’s drinking.
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Click here to download the workbook
Conferences and events
SHAAP/SARN Alcohol Occasionals
Scottish Health Action on Alcohol Problems (SHAAP) and the Scottish
Alcohol Research Network (SARN) are pleased to announce our
programme for the lunchtime 'Alcohol Occasional' seminars. These
showcase innovative research on alcohol use and provide the chance
for researchers, practitioners and policy makers and members of the public to hear and discuss
alcohol related topics, over lunch in the historic Royal College of Physicians in Queen Street,
Edinburgh.
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‘About Aberdeenshire ADP’ barcode – a good way
to getting to know & linking into us via your phone
quickly and conveniently at the click of you phone button.
Follow Aberdeenshire ADP on Twitter - @AbdnshireADP
Local and national news for the Third Sector in Aberdeenshire – Aberdeenshire Voluntary
Action (AVA) Newsletter: February 2017
Scottish Government Alcohol and Drug Bulletin – February 2017
Alcohol Focus Scotland – eFocus March 2017
Scottish Drugs Forum (SDF) – January 2017 Newsletter
Scottish Families Affected by Alcohol and Drugs –February/March Newsletter
The next Aberdeenshire Alcohol and Drug Partnership E-Bulletin will come out
on 28 April 2017.
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