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About Dundee Culture
Dundee Culture is the handbook of the city, your main stop for cultural news on arts, music, sport and much more alongside showcasing stories and features on everything positive in Dundee.
Founded in 2013, Dundee Culture is an award-winning social media platform that has been showcasing Dundee to the world for over a decade. With over 120,000 followers and 200 million visits, Dundee Culture has become a staple of Dundee’s media landscape, one of the city's most respected brands and one of Scotland's biggest hyper-local social media platforms.
Dundee Culture is a platform for everyone – whether you’re from Dundee and live here, have moved away and want to stay connected to what’s happening at home, studied in or visited the city, or are simply curious about what Dundee has to offer. The platform has become especially popular with Millennials and Gen Z Dundonians, who make up a large part of its growing audience.
Dundee Culture proudly champions the City of Discovery, promoting its creative spirit and celebrating its achievements. The platform has played a key role in local initiatives and partnerships that support Dundee’s cultural identity, including helping save Mills Observatory from closure through community-led awareness and engagement.
Andrew Batchelor FRSA
Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Born with several disabilities such as cerebral palsy, autism and epilepsy, Andrew has never stopped them from impacting on the thing that he loves - promoting Dundee and showcasing it to the world.
Inspired by his late auntie's love for Dundee, Andrew, who was only 12 years of age at the time, took it upon himself to create a Facebook page to promote Dundee's UK City of Culture bid originally as a passion project, it has since built a huge community on social media, garnering support from over 120,000 followers and visited by over 200 million people from over 100 countries worldwide.
Andrew is a Dundee Ambassador, officially awarded the title in 2014 following his work promoting Dundee’s UK City of Culture bid. In 2017, he was recognised as one of the top Young Digital Leaders in the world by Digital Leaders. Andrew went on to win the 2018 Dundee Inspire Award and was also a finalist in the Year of Young People 2018 category at the Young Scot Awards for his Dundee’s Young People project, which helped catapult young people from the city into the national spotlight.
In 2023, Andrew was nominated as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. In both 2024 and 2026, he was named one of Scotland’s top social media influencers by The Courier. In 2025, Mills Observatory was shortlisted in the Social Media category at The Courier Business Awards following a hugely successful public engagement campaign that Andrew played a central role in through Dundee Culture, helping drive renewed interest, record visitor numbers, and wider awareness during a critical period for the observatory’s future.
In 2026, Andrew was also featured as one of the top Scottish Arts & Culture influencers at the Scottish Influencer Awards and was named Dundonian of the Year at the DUSA President's Awards. He has also been recognised in the Chamber Champion Awards in the Impact Individual category.
From 2022 until 2024, Andrew also wrote a column for the Evening Telegraph and The Courier.
Aside from his work with Dundee Culture, Andrew is also the Marketing Manager at the Dundee Museum of Transport, which has a partnership with Dundee Culture. He has overseen the museum's best-ever social media performance across its social media channels for two consecutive years.
Andrew also lives with his two ragdoll cats: Frankie and Benny, who went viral in 2025 after using them to promote a cat exhibition in Dundee!