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Learning disability support

South Day Opportunities

South Day Opportunities offers a range of day support to adults with a learning disability, who live in Aberdeenshire and meet the eligibility criteria for a service.

South Day Opportunities has:

Main hub

South Day Opportunities main hub at Forest View, Woodview Place, Stonehaven, AB39 2TD.

We have a large sensory room at Forest View. It is equipped with:

  • Vibroacoustic waterbed
  • LED light up ball pool
  • Therapy POD
  • Fibre optics
  • Sensory wall panels with lights
  • Bubble tubes
  • A variety of projectors
  • Tactile sensory equipment

The sensory room is fully adapted with ceiling tracking hoists for all to access and offers a multi-sensory experience: touch, sight, smell and sound. The room provides a person-centred therapeutic experience.

The Neuk satellite base

South Day Opportunities satellite base at The Neuk (Social Work Office), 5 Low Road, Aboyne, AB34 5GW.

We have a smaller sensory room at The Neuk, providing a person-centred, multi-sensory experience. It is equipped with:

  • Handheld fibre optics
  • Bubble tubes
  • A variety of projectors
  • Tactile sensory equipment
  • Ceiling tracking hoists

Ideatek and Kraftworks

Ideatek and Kraftworks are woodwork projects. Ideatek is based at the South Day Opportunities main hub at Forest View. Kraftworks is a South Day Opportunities satellite base at Unit 1 Aboyne Industrial Estate, Low Road, Aboyne, AB34 5GW.

The projects make wooden crafts, which can be personalised to individual orders. One of our big sellers are Christmas trees. By taking part in these projects you have the opportunity to:

  • Meet and interact with customers
  • Be involved in making the orders
  • Deliver the finished items to the customer
  • Develop skills such as using tools, product packaging and customer care

There is also a kindling project which runs across both Ideatek and Kraftworks. The project collects wooden pallets locally. These are dismantled, chopped into kindling before being packed into net bags and sold.

At Kraftworks there may be additional tasks at certain times of the year, such as refurbishing outdoor items. Tasks include:

  • Sanding items
  • Doing any maintenance needed
  • Painting or varnishing the item

Closures

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

Contact us

If you would like to find out more about South Day Opportunities, call us on 01569 690543 or email admin.sds@aberdeenshire.gov.uk.