Ten days of fun in Royal Deeside's most resilient village.

Second week of August every year. Be Amused.

Ballater

Best Dressed Sandbag too!

Just for fun, and just for 2016, we invite you to decorate a sandbag for BVW!

There's bound to be a few spare ones knocking around... You could turn it into your favourite character, use it to plant flowers, or whatever you like.

Again we just want to cheer the village up a bit and give people something to chuckle about as they go about their day.

This competition is only online, there is no map etc. Just take a photo of your sandbag and send it to our Facebook page or, if you are not on Facebook, email it to info@ballatervictoriaweek.co.uk and we will post it for you.

There's a £50 cash prize for the pic with the most likes by the end of BVW (Aug 14th).