Moray Council

👻 As spooky season approaches make sure to take care with costumes and decorations - particularly around candles and open flames 👇

Candles, costumes and Halloween decorations can be a dangerous combination.

Use a torch or battery candles in pumpkins rather than candles.

Read our safety tips here: https://www.firescotland.gov.uk/halloween-candle-safety/

Download our leaflet: https://tinyurl.com/96km7a3m

📱🎉 Big news, Fit Life Moray members!

We’ve just launched our brand-new Fit Life Moray app alongside an upgraded booking and membership system.

The new app will make it easier than ever to:

✅ View activities and timetables
✅ Book and manage sessions on the go
✅ Access membership information
✅ Use a QR code for quick entry
✅ Discover activities across Moray

The app is available to download from the Apple App Store and Google Play Store now.

This is a huge step forward in making our leisure services more convenient, flexible and accessible for everyone.

Keep an eye out for more information coming soon! 👀

More details on the link in the comments 👇

📆 A wee reminder about the open day at Anderson's Primary School in Forres tomorrow (Sat 3 October) to celebrate 100 years of the building 👇

🎉🏫 A century of memories, learning and community! 🎂

This year, Anderson’s Primary School in Forres is celebrating 100 years of its historic school building, marking a century at the heart of generations of local lives and learning.

Originally opened as Forres Academy in September 1926, the building served generations of secondary pupils before becoming Anderson's Primary School in 1971.

To mark this special milestone, the school will open its doors to the public to explore the building, share memories and learn more about its rich history.

📆 Saturday 3 October 2026
⌚️ 10am-1pm

Join the celebrations by sharing your favourite school memories, photos and stories, whether you're a former pupil, member of staff, parent or part of the wider community. 💙📚

Email photos to: [email protected] with the names of as many people as possible featured in the image, along with the approximate date it was taken, to help build a detailed historical record.

Here's to 100 years of inspiring young minds and to the many more still to come! 🎈

See the full story on the link in the comments.

Share your ideas for the Buckie STEM Starts Centre on Wednesday 7 October at the Cullen Community Centre.

STEM Starts has been visiting schools and nurseries across Buckie over the past couple of weeks, bringing hands-on STEM activities and giving children the chance to explore, play and share their ideas 💭

These visits are part of their consultation to help shape the next STEM Starts hub at Buckie Town House.

The team are offering a community drop-in session at Cullen Community Centre on Wednesday 7 October from 3pm - 4:30pm, giving families the opportunity to learn, play, and to share their ideas.

Come along to enjoy some STEM fun and share with the team what you’d like to see in the new hub. Your ideas will shape a space for local children to discover and learn 📖✏

🚵 Have you seen the new Hi-BIKEs around Elgin yet?!

These electric bikes are available to hire through the dedicated app from:

📍 Cooper Park (next to Moray Council Libraries and Information Services)
📍 High Street (Council HQ end)
📍 UHI Moray
📍 Glen Moray Drive
📍 Thornhill Road (near the Scotmid)
📍 Pinefield Housing Estate

Hi-BIKE Elgin

Commute to work or college using HI-BIKE in Inverness, Fort William and Elgin. Short trip? Make it a bike trip. Use the HI-BIKE share scheme in Inverness, Fort William and Elgin for convenient and cost-effective commuting to work or college.

Regeneration was another topic of discussion at yesterday's full council, including the Cooper Park Masterplan, Gordon Arms, and the m.connect bus service.

To read the full stories, visit the links below 👇

Full council regeneration highlights from yesterday include positive updates from Moray Council's popular m.connect bus service, the Cooper Park masterplan moving to its next phase, and Levelling Up Funding being redirected to support the Gordon Arms project 🏗🏬

The m.connect bus service, is continuing to transform public transport across Moray. The approved Phase 3 of the programme will focus on strengthening data and analysis and planning tools needed to support future network growth, while maintaining services that are already connecting communities across the region 🚌🛣

Moray Council has also approved a draft Cooper Park masterplan to enable the Elgin Neighbourhood Board to move to the next phase, which includes public consultation to help lead further investment in Cooper Park to enhance its role as a destination park 🌳🌲

Finally, approved changes to the Levelling Up Fund (LUF) programme, will allow funding from a project that is no longer progressing to be redirected to support the transformation of the former Gordon Arms Hotel on the High Street 🎨

To read the full stories, visit the links below.

📣 Full Council highlights: investment, opportunities and keeping more wealth in Moray

Councillors have backed a number of key decisions today aimed at investing in our communities, supporting families and strengthening Moray’s economy.

🏃 Backing regeneration ambitions
Full Council has backed funding bids to support major regeneration projects for the Moray Athletics Hub and St Giles Centre site, helping progress ambitions for investment in Elgin and Moray.

💷 Keeping more wealth local
Councillors approved an update to our Community Wealth Building Strategy. Key public sector partners are being invited to join a partnership, looking at how spending, land, buildings and other resources can do more to support local businesses, jobs, skills and communities.

👧 £1.6 million for after-school activities
Moray has also secured £1.6 million from the Scottish Government for a new pilot making after-school activities more accessible and affordable for primary school children. Starting in Buckie and Forres, the programme will particularly support families experiencing, or at risk of, poverty, while helping parents and carers access work, training or additional working hours.

Together, these decisions are about investing in Moray’s places, people and future.

🔗 Find out more about today’s decisions on the Moray Council Newsroom on the link in the comments.

Further update on swimming pool fire at Keith Sports & Community Centre

We can confirm that the swimming pool at Keith Sports and Community Centre will reopen on Friday 2 October, following the fire at the facility on Sunday 27 September.

The fitness room, circular meeting room and sports hall reopened today, Wednesday 30 September, and are operating as normal.

The pool hall, water and changing rooms are being cleaned and prepared for reopening, while the steam room and sauna will remain closed as fire-damaged materials are removed and smoke-affected areas are cleaned.

With the affected area sealed off from the main pool hall, the swimming pool can reopen safely while the remaining work is completed.

The standard swimming timetable, including public swimming and lessons, will resume as normal from Friday.

We’d like to thank everyone for their patience and understanding while the necessary work has been carried out.

🌱 Moray schools are getting climate ready!

Pupils and teachers are helping create greener school grounds with more native trees, hedges, meadows and ponds.

The Climate Ready Schools project will give children more opportunities to learn and play outdoors, create new habitats for wildlife and help schools cope with our changing climate. 🌳🐝

Trees and hedges can provide shade during hot weather, shelter from high winds and help manage water during heavy rain.

Work at the first five schools starts this autumn, with pupils getting stuck into planting days in November and December. A further three schools are also in the works.

We’re sharing the project for Climate Week Scotland 2026 to show how practical changes today can help make our schools more resilient for the future. 💚

🔗 Read more on the link in the comments.

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