Kintore and District Community Council

Meet Moira Moran who is Chair of Kintore & District Community Council.

Moira was brought up at a farm in Bourtie between Inverurie and Oldmeldrum. 

She went on to train as a psychiatric nurse working in both hospitals and the community in Grampian and South Manchester with a break to live in Norway. 

Moira moved to the Middle East for several years where she worked in office administration. 

On return to Scotland she worked in Marine Insurance and also worked in office management at the Rowett Institute. 

Further to that Moira has worked in IT administration including UK IT Manager for a couple of oil service companies. After being made redundant she took the opportunity to retire. 

She has lived at Thainstone for 45 years and seen many changes in the area, some for the better, some not so good.

Interested in gardening, particularly fruit, foraging and looking after her beloved cats.

Moira joined the Community Council in 2020 as Secretary and is now Chair of Kintore and District Community Council.

You can email Moira at chair.kdcc@gmail.com

 Meet Ken McEwen.

Throughout his career, Ken McEwen’s focus has been on communications and media. He started with the Press and Journal, became press officer at the Aberdeen City Council, moving to NESDA, before founding his own PR company.

When he moved to Kintore, in 1999, the town was perceived, in some quarters, as simply a “dormitory town” for Aberdeen. Ken saw the web and social media as way to correct this image and project Kintore as the truly vibrant community it is, with a strong history and heritage.

He set up the kintore.org.uk website, followed by the Kintore Facebook page, Twitter and Instagram. After 20 years of running them as a free service to Kintore, ownership was transferred to Kintore and District Community Council in 2021.

Ken served as vice chairman and acting chair of Kintore and District Community Council between 2019 and 2021 – a period which included adapting to the pandemic and switching meetings to online. 

Ken is a trustee with local charity Action Kintore, who run The Bothie youth organisation and are working to bring the Town House back into use for the community.

  Meet Rachel Lewis.

Rachel has been a resident of Kintore since 2018. 

Having a background in youth work Rachel is well know for running the local  community youth facility called  'The Bothie' including all the youth groups, since we opened in 2013. 

She is also a youth Poverty engagement worker for the tackling poverty and inequalities team in Aberdeenshire Council which covers youth projects right across Aberdeenshire. 

Rachel's collie dog Jaz doubles as a youth worker and attends youth groups too.

Meet Jim Reid.

Family man Jim is Managing Director of Kintore car dealership Jim Reid Vehicle Sales & Service.

Jim joined the KDCC in June 2022 as he wanted to give something back to the local community. Motivated to join the community council as he was incensed that the local FREE Community Magazine , the Kintore Konnect was on the brink of extinction and wanted to help save it. 

Taking this important community asset within the control of the KDCC has been a real game changer and the magazine is now thriving.

Jim also helps organise and coordinate the community volunteer team , the Kintore Resilience Group which has been a been very active during the local flooding in late 2023.

You can get in contact with Jim by emailing advertising.kdcc@gmail.com

Meet Eve Lamond

Eve works as an event organiser and an Administration Support .

Moving to Kintore back in 2019.

Eve joined the Kintore & District Community Council in September 2023 after joining one of the KDCC monthly meetings. Eve had come along to personally thank the Community Council for having supporting the local De-fibs as  one of the Community AED's saving the life of her father in law who had been visiting them in Summer 2023.

Meet Alan Milne. 

Alan works offshore as a rope access construction supervisor. 

An important Member of KDCC with a passion for helping others and is an active member of the Kintore Resilience Group. Alan's responsibilities also extend to ensuring that the 6 Community owned AED's are regularly inspected and maintained to make sure they are in good working order when required in an emergency.  Alan is also a Community First Responder with Scottish Ambulance supporting the Garioch Area. 

Morag was born and brought up in Peebles where she lived and worked before moving to the Northeast in 2014 to manage Thainstone House Hotel.

She moved to Kintore in 2016 and continued to work in the hotel business at the airport and then city centre before taking up her current role with Retirement Living in Chapelton.

She was keen to meet new people and become actively involved in the community having already joined the Rotary Club of Kintore, Blackburn and Kemnay where she was president in 2022-23. She was also a committee member of the Kintore Summer Festival and was the Chairperson in 2023. Morag also enjoys volunteering at the Inverurie Parkrun as part of their core team and has also previously supported the  Kintore Scout Group ,