10 November 2026
Cushty Cut Barber: Giving Back to the Community That Backs You
For Cushty Cut Barber, being part of Inverurie has always meant more than running a business in the town.
Over the years, the High Street barbershop has quietly built up a long list of local teams, individuals, charities, schools and community initiatives it has chosen to support – sometimes through sponsorship, sometimes by donating vouchers, and sometimes simply by offering what the team does best: a free haircut.
It is an approach that reflects something owner Marcin Masny said when speaking about Cushty Cut several years ago:
“Cushty for me means family.”
That sense of connection has remained a consistent part of the business as it has grown. From youth football and local sport to charity fundraising and community projects, Cushty Cut has continued to find practical ways of putting something back into the area which has supported it.
Supporting Local Sport from the Grassroots Up
Sport has been one of the clearest areas of that community involvement.
Cushty Cut has supported youth teams including Formartine United 2009s and Blackburn FC 2009s, recognising the role local clubs play not only in sport, but in creating opportunities, friendships and community for young people.
The business has also supported the Kronos Cup at Kemnay Football Club, providing free haircuts two years in a row as part of their involvement.
That support extends beyond football.
Cushty Cut is a sponsor of the IDPL Pool League and has also backed individuals competing in very different sporting disciplines.
Motocross rider Alex Chauvin and strongman Gavin Bruce have both received free haircuts from the business as part of Cushty Cut’s support for their sporting journeys.
Individually, each contribution may seem relatively small. Taken together, however, they show a business repeatedly choosing to support people who are putting time, effort and commitment into representing their clubs, sports and communities.
For a local business, there are many ways to contribute. Cushty Cut has often chosen to do so with the service it knows best.
Using the Barber’s Chair to Support Good Causes
The barbershop itself has also provided a platform for fundraising.
Cushty Cut has taken part in Brave the Shave in support of Macmillan Cancer Support, bringing together barbering and charity fundraising in a way that naturally fits the business.
The shop also regularly provides vouchers to local charities, schools and wider national causes, giving organisations something useful to include in raffles, fundraising events and community initiatives.
These smaller donations are an important part of the wider picture.
Community support does not always need to arrive through a major sponsorship agreement. For schools, charities and voluntary groups, donated prizes can help raise funds that are then reinvested directly into their own work.
By responding regularly to those requests, Cushty Cut has been able to support a much wider range of causes than any single long-term partnership could reach.
From Easter Eggs to Everyday Community Support
Sometimes the contribution is even simpler.
Cushty Cut has supported the Tribe Aberdeen Easter Egg Run as well as Easter egg activity through Inverurie Community Partnership, helping contribute to initiatives designed to bring a little extra enjoyment to local families and children.
It is another example of the breadth of the business’s community involvement.
There is no single cause Cushty Cut has attached itself to. Instead, their support stretches across sport, schools, charities, individual athletes and local initiatives.
That variety feels particularly appropriate for a barbershop.
A barber’s customers are drawn from every part of the community. Children come in for early haircuts, teenagers become regulars, parents bring their families and customers return over many years. Conversations naturally cover football, work, family, fundraising, sport and whatever else is happening locally.
For Cushty Cut, those connections have frequently continued beyond the chair.
A Business Built on Relationships
That people-first approach has been part of Marcin’s thinking from the early days of the business.
Having arrived in Scotland shortly after turning 16, he worked his way from an early job as a kitchen porter before eventually establishing his own barbershop in Inverurie.
His story has previously been featured by the Press & Journal, including coverage of the challenges he faced after arriving in Scotland and the determination which eventually led him into business ownership.
Marcin describes the relationships built through Cushty Cut as central to what the business meant to him:
“I have a strong attachment to my customers and I truly appreciate making friendships.” He also spoke about wanting people of different ages to feel comfortable in the shop and about giving customers “that little bit extra”.
Those words perhaps help explain why Cushty Cut’s community support has taken so many different forms over the years.
For a business based around regular face-to-face contact, the people coming through the door are not an abstract customer base. They are the same families involved in local football clubs, the people organising school fundraisers, those raising money for charities, athletes looking for local backing and volunteers trying to make something happen in their community.
Supporting those activities becomes an extension of the relationships already built in the shop.
Giving Back Without Making a Big Deal of It
What stands out about Cushty Cut’s community activity is their consistency.
There has not been one large project followed by silence. Instead, the business has continued to support different causes as opportunities have arisen.
Youth football teams. A pool league. A motocross rider. A strongman competitor. Cancer fundraising. Schools. Local charities. National causes. Easter initiatives.
Some have involved sponsorship. Others have involved free services or donated vouchers.
It is a practical form of community support: seeing where the business can contribute and doing what it can.
That is also an important part of what independent businesses bring to towns such as Inverurie.
Their impact is not measured only by the services they provide or the people they employ. Local businesses frequently become sponsors, donors, meeting points, advocates and supporters of the organisations operating around them.
Often, that contribution happens without a great deal of publicity.
Putting Roots Down in Aberdeenshire
Marcin previously summed up his relationship with the area simply:
“I have put my roots in Aberdeenshire and my future is here.”
Years later, Cushty Cut’s record of community involvement gives that statement added weight.
The business is now based at 77 High Street in Inverurie, offering traditional and modern barbering, but their presence in the town stretches further than the services delivered from the chair.
The support given to local sport, individual competitors, charities, schools and community groups represents another side of what it means to operate as an independent business in Inverurie.
Customers support local businesses by choosing to spend with them.
And, in Cushty Cut’s case, the business has repeatedly found ways of returning that support to the community around it.
From a free haircut for an athlete to sponsorship for a local league, a voucher for a school fundraiser or Easter eggs for a community initiative, each contribution is different.
The thinking behind them is much the same.
“Cushty for me means family.”
And for Cushty Cut, being part of that family means giving something back.
