Buchan Day Opportunities

Buchan Day Opportunities provides a service to adults with a learning disability in Peterhead and surrounding areas.

Locations

Our main building-based locations are:

Sensory room

We have a sensory room at our Crimond Hub that provides a relaxing and stimulating environment. The room is used to support a multisensory experience, through visual, auditory and tactile stimulation. We have accessible, interactive sensory equipment, including:

• waterbed
• fibre optics
• fibre optic curtain
• bubble tube
• sensory Infinity interactive wall panel

The waterbed is heated and has a vibro-acoustic function for users to feel the vibrations of their favourite music or calming sounds. Sensory rooms can help the user in relaxation, stress reduction, to engage the senses in a positive way and to help manage anxieties and sensory overload.

The sensory room is also equipped with an OMI sensory projector. This is portable and can be projected onto the walls or a table, to support a variety of individual or group needs. It is motion activated with different programmes, difficulty levels and a variety of real sounds. It can be individually personalised for likes and dislikes, such as favourite music, familiar faces, favourite characters. It encourages individuals to play an active part, rather than passively watch and can provide an upbeat session or a more calming session to unwind. Those with more limited movements can access the activities through rolling a ball or using other items to activate the motion projection.

Woodcraft at Aden

Woodcraft at Aden is a woodwork project making a range of items, including garden furniture, planters and bird boxes.

People who take part in the project can get involved in a range of tasks, including:

• using a laser cutter
• putting the items together
• sanding
• painting

Kindling project

The Kindling project collects pallets from local businesses and turns them into bags of kindling.

People taking part in the project can get involved with:

• dismantling the pallets
• removing nails
• chopping the wood into kindles
• bagging the kindles ready to be sold

This project is run out of the same premises as Woodcraft at Aden. There's a dedicated area for preparing and chopping the pallets into kindlers, as well as a packing area.

Aden Craft and Gift Shop

Opportunity for people using Buchan Day Opportunities to help out in a shop environment at Aden Craft and Gift Shop. Tasks include:

• serving customers
• using the till and money handling
• stocking shelves
• stock rotation
• ordering
• general housekeeping in the shop

Woodcraft at Aden and the shop are based at Aden Country Park, Mintlaw, Peterhead, AB42 5QF.

Shop and Drop

Shop and Drop is a valuable service for the local community to shop for people who can't do it themselves. Those taking part collect shopping lists from customers, go to local shops and return with the shopping. Support is provided by Buchan Day Opportunities staff.

Courses

ASDAN courses can be completed in most groups at Buchan Day Opportunities.

Opening times

Buchan Day Opportunities are open 9am to 4pm, Monday to Friday.

Your care manager will arrange the times when you can access the day service. They will discuss programmes with you, your family and carers, and staff at Buchan Day Opportunities, providing a person-centred approach to any timetable you may be offered. This includes providing a list of available activities, times and days when these activities take place. Users of the service access Buchan Day Opportunities at different times, depending on individual needs and interests. For example a four day service, accessing half days or specific days to suit the individuals needs. These could be building based or community based activities, or a mix of both.

For information about closures, including unplanned closures, please view Aberdeenshire Day Opportunities.

Find out more

Find out how to access the service. To find out what is available in other areas, any potential closures and general information about the support provided view Aberdeenshire Day Opportunities.

Contact us

If you would like to find out more about Buchan Day Opportunities call us on 01346 515292 or email buchandayopportunities@aberdeenshire.gov.uk.