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Coll Challenge Adventure Race
Thursday 15th October ramps up the already high adrenaline of that week on the Isle of Tiree. The annual Tiree Wave Classic, run by GMF Co, takes place from 10th – 16th October and 15th October sees...
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Who can tell the story of this Argyll Library van?
Here is a picture taken by a sharp-eyed Argyllach in Brighton last year. It shows a library van alleged to be from Mid Argyll and presumably disposed of as being not good enough for us.Can anyone add...
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SSACN 2012 Sharkatag
The Scottish Sea Angling Conservation Network’s 2012 Sharkatag runs from 14-16th June from marks around the Solway and SW Scotland, many on the Mull of Galloway.Sharkatag’s main aim is to highlight the...
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Easdale gearing up to welcome RIB owners for 2013 RIB Rendezvous
In what is becoming a major feature of the marine leisure year in Argyll waters, Easdale is getting ready to welcome all RIB [Rigid Inflatable Boat] owners for the 2013 RIB Rendezvous.For those who are...
View ArticleNew course in forest landscape design
In an initiative from the ever inventive Forestry Commission Scotland, a new training course offering insights into Forest Landscape Design should appeal to people involved in woodland management and...
View ArticleArgyll and the Isles Tourism CEO’s welcome to 2013 Tourism Summit
Here we are, on 13th March, in the Marble Hall of the magnificent Mount Stuart, outside Rothesay on the Isle of Bute.A full house has just had registration and breakfast at the Mout Stuart Visitor...
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Marine carnival time at Easdale – 2013 Easdale RIB Rendezvous
They call the Easdale Rib Rendezvous ‘ERR’ – maybe trying to be, err, modest about so full-on a fabulous spectacle.The 2013 ERR [full-on fabulous spectacle] is on 3rd, 4th and 5th May and already looks...
View ArticleFinal stage of limited Crofting [Amendment] Scotland Bill at Scottish...
The final stage of the consideration of the Crofting (Amendment) Scotland Bill is taking place in the Scottish Parliament today.The amendment to the original 2010 statute has been made necessary by the...
View Article#indyref: 36 answers in 39 steps
Charles Dixon-Spain, one of the three founding energies of For Argyll, the Director whose skills keep it online and whose inventiveness constantly develops its service, recently published an article on...
View ArticleMore reason to question the integrity of the ADP Addaction contract and now...
This one was always going to run and run – because it has been obvious from the start that the management of the Scottish Government funded Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs Partnership [ADP] is out of...
View ArticleIs Audit Scotland taking the low road on investigating Argyll’s ADP?
Taking the line of least resistance, Audit Scotland simultaneously gives hope and takes it from many of those local service providers abused and the vulnerable service users under-served by Argyll and...
View ArticleADP: new major commissioning issues for Audit Scotland investigation
Our two local MSPs, MIchael Russell and Jackie Baillie, have together convinced Audit Scotland of the need, for a start, to investigate the process by which the Argyll and Bute Alcohol and Drugs...
View ArticleNew information dictates new start for the ADP addiction services contract
In June 2014, Argyll and Bute Council’s procurement team issued an Invitation To Tender [ITT] to provide Argyll and Bute-wide community addiction recovery services.The deadline for the submission of...
View ArticleIslay’s 2015 Single Malt Marathon
And no. Sorry. This does not involve drinking your way around all eight of the island’s imperious single malt Scotch whiskies – or at least not until afterwards.Scot, Karen Wallace, the current women’s...
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Run or Dye: World’s most colourful 5k comes to Perth
Run or Dye, the world’s most colourful 5km run is coming to Perth on Saturday 18th July – to the stunning grounds of Scone Palace.Bringing the explosion of Run or Dye colour to one of Scotland’s most...
View ArticleThe Rob Roy Challenge: the ultimate fundraising adventure
Plans for the thrilling muscle-burn of the 10th Rob Roy Challenge are well under way with challengers reminded that the exclusive Barnardo’s Scotland discount code offer ends soon. Register your team...
View ArticleHousing Services issues: specific failures of Audit Scotland report on Argyll...
Issues around the provision of Housing Services in this contract are integral to judgments on the integrity of the processes of the relationships between the Invitation to Tender, the contracted...
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