New for 2026: Thriving Together @ Compass
For people attending day services / activities through Self Directed support
Every Tuesday 13:30 – 15:30
Supported activity sessions for participants and their carers. To enquire or book contact booking@cwt.scot / 01224 678830
Compass Garden Shop Opening Hours
Our Garden Shop has local, organically grown, seasonal produce, honey, plants, and local crafts.
New Outdoor Adventures
For pre-school children & parent / carer
New 6 week block starting Thursday 19th February to 26th March 10.00 – 11.30am
Forest school and early years qualified practitioner led
- Extensive natural setting
- Fun physical activities
- Creative nature-based activities
Spaces are limited: Book Now! Contact booking@cwt.scot / 01224 678830
Party and Play at North Point
The North Point building on the site offers a fantastic venue to host your child’s birthday party.
Great value under 12s party package!
Contact us for more details.
Come along to our Drop-in soft play & activity sessions.
For under 5s plus parent/carer.
Every Friday 10am – 12pm
£4 for first child with parent/carer,
£2 each additional child
We’d love to see you!
Support Us
As a charity, we rely on the generosity of volunteers, donors and funders to deliver our community-orientated services, breathing life into this beautiful, disused site.
Please help us to continue our much needed work.
Buy our Organic Produce
Support your health and wellbeing with organically-produced local, seasonal produce harvested from the gardens of Compass. We also offer plants, firewood, kindling, wood chippings and Compass honey.
Hire a Space
Our fully-refurbished North Point Building is available for hire from 1st November 2024.
With sports flooring, changing rooms, kitchen, meeting room and storage space, we aim to offer a high-quality venue at a reasonable cost.
Volunteer
We welcome volunteers from all walks of life!
Come along to help in the garden, utilise your DIY skills or simply lend a hand with our ‘to do lists’.
Social Prescribing
Our Skills for Health service can help you develop practical skills to bring about the health-promoting changes that you want in your life.
News & Events
Keep up to date with the latest opportunities at Compass. You can also read our newsletter, Directions.
Our Achievements to Date
No. Volunteers
Volunteer Hours
Organic Produce (kg)
Waste Recycled / Reused (m3)
%
Fundraising Goal Phase 1: £200,000
Sep 2020 – Sep 2021
%
Fundraising Goal Phase 2: £1m
Oct 2021 – Sep 2024
%
Fundraising Goal Phase 3: c. £1.2m
Oct 2024 – Sep 2027
%
Fundraising Goal Phase 4: c. £7m
Oct 2027 –
Phase 1
- Tidy outdoor areas with composting and recycling
- Restore paths and steps
- Survey trees and plan scheduled management
- Increase site security to counter crime and vandalism
- Complete essential building repairs
- Begin sustainable refurbishment and re-purposing of some buildings
- Set up demonstration garden plots
- Appoint project co-ordinator
- Engage with local community
Phase 2: Places
- Complete refurbishment of North Point: a multi-purpose building with new multi-user access
- Create temporary volunteer and staff hub
- Erect polytunnel and two composting toilets for volunteer and participants
- Purchase two volunteer cabins for shelter and social space
- Plan and start refurbishment of enterprise and kindergarten buildings
Phase 2: People
- Increase Compass team from 1 part-time to 5 full-time staff to deliver our community orientated services
- Increase volunteer numbers and volunteered hours by 50%
- Expand volunteering activities
- Establish social prescribing service with therapeutic activities in collaboration with NHS
- Expand Duke of Edinburgh and Saltire Awards volunteering opportunities by 50%
- Increase corporate & school volunteering groups by 75%
- Delivered employability skills opportunities, including 12 dry-stone walling sessions
Phase 2: Produce
- Plant 150 fruit bushes and native tree species
- Expand no-dig organic garden by 100% and increase year on year production: over 3300kg harvested to date.
- Distribute seasonal, organically-grown produce to the local community
- Increase bee colonies from 1 to 12 and establish wild flower areas
- Produced 60 m3 of compost and re-used 150m3 of woodchips/cardboard
- Sustainably recycled over 30m³ of materials / metal
Phase 3
- Deliver sustainable refurbishment and re-purposing of former kindergarten and science buildings to create new East Point Hub with:
- Cafe and play cafe
- Health & Education Hub to support local NHS practices through our social prescribing services and outdoor learning activities
- Extension to current Blue Door charity shop [N. Deeside Road] to support and upcycle larger items
- Zero-waste kitchen for processing onsite produce, education and skills development
- Resurface main driveway and car-parking area
- Finalise masterplan for revitalisation across the whole site
Phase 4
Staged refurbishment of main C-listed building will be a major and exciting aim in phase 4 onwards.
Timing and progress in phase 4 onwards will be dependant on funds raised.
Contact Us
Visit the site: Compass, Craigton Road, Cults, Aberdeen, AB15 9QD
Email: compass@cwt.scot
Donate to Compass
Your donation will help us continue to restore and re-purpose the site for the benefit of the local and wider community of Aberdeen.