Dundee Culture

Dundee Culture is an award-winning social media brand which has showcased Dundee and it's culture to the world. Starting off in 2013 by then 12 year old Andrew Batchelor, it was originally created to support Dundee's UK City of Culture bid for 2017.

Now in 2019, Dundee Culture has an audience of over 10 million people from 85 countries worldwide and is now away to move on to becoming a full time business for 18 year old Andrew Batchelor.

Andrew Batchelor

Andrew Batchelor is an 18-year old from Dundee, Scotland – named by Digital Leaders as one of the top ten youngest digital leaders in the United Kingdom and named by the Courier as a ‘teen prodigy’, Andrew is Dundee's youngest ambassador.

Andrew set up a Facebook page called Dundee Culture in 2013 to help support Dundee’s UK City of Culture bid when he was just only 12 which originally started out as a ‘passion project’. Now, Dundee Culture has over 23,000 likes and followers combined on all social media platforms from over 85 countries around the world, over 10 million visitors worldwide and is now expanding out into a full-time business venture for Andrew.

Andrew was born with hemiplegia, a form of cerebral palsy with doctors telling his parents that he would never be able to walk or talk but defied all odds. He has battled through autism, anxiety, epilepsy, dyslexia and dyscalculia but that hasn’t stopped him from doing what he loves – showcasing Dundee to the world.

Andrew has had many achievements and accolades from his work with Dundee Culture, he became the youngest person in Dundee to hold the Queen’s Baton ahead of the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow at just age 13, he won the first Young Award at the 2015 Evening Telegraph Community Spirit Awards, named in Young Scot’s 4 Young People Who’ve Ruled the Tech World and was named in Digital Leader’s Top 10 Young Digital Leaders in the United Kingdom.

“My inspiration for creating Dundee Culture in the first place was from my auntie who sadly passed away – she had a real love and bond for Dundee and that passed on me as she took us over the city – from the Discovery to the Dundee Law, that shown me what a beautiful place Dundee was!”

“Dundee is going through exciting changes at the moment with the V&A and the continuous waterfront development which will irreversibly redefine the city for the future!

“To any young person who wants to achieve their ambition – whether they are disabled like myself or not, they need to know that nothing is impossible, and anything can happen in the future, but remember to be patient and you will achieve what you want to achieve.”