Category: General News

All at the 1st Rosehearty Company are looking forward to welcoming Alison Chambers, Brigade Vice-President, to our village on Saturday 17th July!

Alison is coming to Rosehearty to present Jack Irvine with his President’s Commendation alongside other young men from around the Battalion who will be receiving higher Brigade Awards. We believe Alison will be the highest ranking official from the BB to ever visit our village in our entire 98-year history.

Alison is a leader in the Airdrie, Coatbridge and District Battalion where she has served as the Battalion Training Convener. She currently serves as a Queen’s Badge Co-ordinator for Lanarkshire District Fellowship and was appointed a Brigade Vice-President last year.

The forecast says the sun may even make an appearance as we look forward to this special day!

This is just a reminder since we have recently had a few requests about how the Battalion Mini Bus Can be booked.

To Book out the Mini Bus head to https://bus.buchanbb.org.uk/ and login with the Details Provided.

On the dashboard you should see a button that says Reserve, click this and it will let you fill in a booking form.

Once you have submitted your booking request it will then be sent to be approver, you will be notified once it has been accepted.

We have a step by step Booking Tutorial Available to view at https://bus.buchanbb.org.uk/tutorials/make-a-booking.pdf

If you have any questions, please email bus@buchanbb.org.uk or send us a message on Facebook.

Our Facebook page now has a magnificent 900 like!

The more people that follow our page, the more people know about the wonderful work our Battalion does for young people in the north east of Scotland!

Thank you for following us and stay tuned for more exciting times ahead as we gradually emerge from this lockdown in 2021!

If you haven’t liked our page yet, you can head to our page at https://www.facebook.com/buchanbb

This evening members of the Buchan Executive met on Zoom for the first time in 2021 to discuss several important Battalion matters.

We are all very much looking forward to a time when we are able to come together again and meet in person not only for our meetings, but also in our companies

We are looking to create a Digital Vault of old Battalion Photos, Videos, Newspaper Articles, Really anything about the Battalion.

This Archive will be made available to View after content has been organised and added to the site. We are Currently Requesting if anyone has anything they wish to add to the Vault, to submit it via the methods below.

What we are looking for?

• Photos from Past Battalion Events
• Videos from Battalion Events
• Scans/images of Articles about the Battalion
• Anything you think should be added to the vault

Feel free to send in anything/as much as you want. The more images we receive the more complete the vault will become.

How to Submit Items to the Vault?

There are a few ways that items can be submitted

• Upload via this link https://rossduthie-my.sharepoint.com/:f:/g/personal/ross_ross-duthie_com/Eh_4Q-Ol2BVCpvP0VwPAxfwBe-sC8ERlV1hdJwgucuPIKw
• Email it to vault@buchanbb.org.uk

Make sure after uploading images to send an email to vault@buchanbb.org.uk informing us of what you have uploaded so we know how to categorize it in the Vault.

When Uploading please try to keep your file as easy as possible to organise, i.e. upload folders/zip files for each different event or name the files to what the event was, this will make it easier to identify which event the images come from.

We hope that the vault develops with lot’s of photos and videos in it. If you have any questions about the vault please email vault@buchanbb.org.uk . The vault will be available to view once we have started to populate it.

Looking Forward to seeing all the uploads!!

Thanks,
Buchan Battalion Boys’ Brigade

Fraserburgh Heritage Centre BB Exhibition – This coming season Fraserburgh Heritage Centre will host an exhibition focusing on the formation of the Fraserburgh District Boys’ Brigade.

It charts the first 50 years up to the establishment of the Buchan Battalion in 1970.

The exhibition features some familiar BB items and photographs but also personal artifacts from the founders of the Fraserburgh movement as well as some of the most coveted prizes in the old Fraserburgh District.

The exhibition runs April-October 2020.