Current Projects
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Currently, the Bakery ingredients are supplied from throughout Scotland. The new business expansion plans incorporate the ability to process locally grown vegetables and meat on site. This enables the Bakery to expand its savoury offering and develop the local supply chain, increase its product offering and provide economic growth for both the village and the wider community. Processing vegetables and meat employs specific skills that will be learned and developed.
Newton Dee will also incorporate the space to work with locally grown grains, which is less known and harder to work with. This provides the opportunity to learn and develop techniques that can expand expertise and therefore provide training and development of this area with economic possibilities. The plans include baking courses to be run for the wider community.
June 2025
Bakery & Confectionery Project
Newton Dee has developed plans, secured planning permission, and is committed to building an energy efficient, modern, new Bakery and Confectionery. This new space will offer additional skills development placements for adults with learning disabilities. In addition, it will offer job opportunities for the local community. Not only in the construction of the energy efficient building but once it is established, for bakers and care workers.
The Bakery and Confectionery make a valuable contribution to employment, skills growth, and provides food for the village and the wider community. It currently offers jobs and skills training positions to adults with learning disabilities, volunteers and employees. As an organisation Newton Dee meets all the Fair Work First criteria. The new building allows for the expansion of the number of people to be trained and employed.
The new building will allow for Newton Dee and the region to reach net zero whilst meeting their needs in an equitable fashion, by securing those jobs and skill opportunities and safely transferring them into green ones with no need of stopping current operations.
The existing building does not meet Newton Dee’s net zero goal, currently producing 22.2 CO2 tonnes a year. The new building is designed and will be constructed using the most advanced technology and practises for carbon reduction. For example, the natural insulation will use sequesters 11 tonnes of CO2eq when produced. Photovoltaic panels, air source heat pumps and a heat recovery system are all included. This is an important employment and skills development opportunity and can provide exemplar practice for the Northeast. This project will give work to an architectural firm, a construction contractor and many specialised subcontractor firms. This project will contribute to the local construction economy with the opportunity of increasing low carbon construction skills in the local workforce.
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