AVA Annual Report 2022

The full AVA staff team
enjoy a Christmas lunch
with board members in
December.
delivering a wider range of forum activities than in previous
years. I am pleased that AVA has been able to present
another set of positive financial accounts that provide a
springboard to a future where AVA will continue to grow
its services menu and deliver an annual workplan with the
needs of the sector firmly at its core.
AVA continues to work in strategic partnership with public
sector agencies across Aberdeenshire, including many parts
of Aberdeenshire Council, Aberdeenshire’s Community
Planning Partnership, Aberdeenshire’s Health & Social
Care Partnership, and NHS Grampian. Our aim is to always
ensure that decision making retains cognisance of the skills,
experience and expertise that resides within the third sector,
and engages constructively in partnership development
that listens to and more importantly understands the value
that can be created by the sector. Our Third Sector Interface
operations, along with Magpie and our other projects are
integral pieces of the jigsaw that makes AVA; they each
contribute in differing ways to AVA being acknowledged as
a partner of significant and strategic importance within and
across the landscape of communities across Aberdeenshire.
Thank you to our members for your continuing support and
engagement with AVA, and on behalf of my fellow Directors,
it is my pleasure to be able to welcome you to AVA’s Annual
Report covering the period December 2021 to February
2023.
Chris White, Chairperson and Trustee