Pippa's Podcasts

Pippa speaks to one of our most successful ‘Grow Your Own’ employees Executive Director Kirsty Flanagan

Pippa chats with our Change Manager, Shirley Johnstone, and Head of Commercial Services, Ross McLaughlin, along with Chris Malcolm from Ryder Architecture, who is assisting the Council with the Our Modern Workspace project.

With more multi-million pound savings to make again this year, Argyll and Bute Council is inviting communities to get involved earlier than usual in the budget-setting process by using a budget simulator to set high level priorities.

Pippa chats with pupils from Barcaldine Primary School and their head teacher Julie Watson, and also with Linda MacBeath from Rhu Primary, about the environmentally sustainable education work

Have you ever been watching a film or TV series and suddenly recognised a familiar location? 

Pippa speaks here with Julie McLellan, Senior Registrar and Service Point Manager.

Pippa spoke with members of the Council’s elections team – Tricia O’Neill, Sandra Campbell and Melissa Stewart – about just how much work goes into organising elections in Argyll and Bute.

Pippa has the pleasure of speaking with Jane Macleod about her role as the current Lord-Lieutenant of Argyll and Bute.

Having listened to many Council staff, communities and partners, it is clear that we still have ways of going about our business that we could do better. So a new Change Programme was launched, with a set of principles to tackle all these issues and to bring us together to meet the challenges ahead.

We are all too aware now of the challenges for local government to set out its spending plans for the following year, and a huge amount of work goes on behind the scenes to develop the proposals.

How would you like to travel the length and breadth of beautiful Argyll and Bute, meeting people, seeing the area, and being paid to do it? 

Pippa chats with members of the Community Planning Partnership.