Voluntary Service Aberdeen (VSA) warned services are becoming “unsustainable”. 

An Aberdeen social care charity has warned it has been forced to use millions in reserves to stay affloat. 

Voluntary Service Aberdeen (VSA) is launching its biggest ever drive for support after spending £3million in reserves in recent years. 

The 155-year-old charity provides services for more than 2,000 children and adults in Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire.

However, funding just isn’t there to keep services going, a charity leader told the BBC. 

VSA chief executive, Sue Freeth, told BBC Scotland: "We can barely run the services we have now with the funds that we receive.

"The model of working is not one we can continue.”

Ms Freeth said "times have never been more challenging" for the charity which was founded in 1870.She added: "The core message of the campaign is to help us save social care, so we can have the care that people actually want to have in the community and make care the heart of the community."