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Could your community group benefit from up to £2,500 in funding?
Argyll and Bute Council Supporting Communities Fund, which helps community groups across the area deliver a variety of projects, is now open for applications for 2024/25.

A new temporary modular school complete with gym hall, classrooms and a learning centre will help minimise disruption and ensure continued learning for John Logie Baird pupils as work to remove RAAC from the existing building starts in July.

Plans to establish a Municipal Harbour, to strengthen the safe running of Oban Bay, are progressing well.

Argyll and Bute Council is inviting residents and businesses in Campbeltown to take part in a public consultation and drop-in event to give their views on what final additions they would like to see in the town’s newly refurbished Burnside Square.

Creating employment, supporting the town centre and providing community leisure opportunities have been core to the redevelopment of Helensburgh’s waterfront.

Your voice matters! That’s the main theme – chosen by young people across the country - of Welcome to Your Vote Week 2024, which runs from January 29th to February 4th.

Following a public consultation in 2023, a proposed travel route linking Rosneath with the Castle Caravan Park is progressing to the second design stage. The proposed route will offer further opportunities to walk, cycle and wheel in the local area and help create a climate friendly Argyll and Bute.

Following feedback from a public consultation in May 2023, new design proposals will launch for an active travel route between Dunoon and Hunters Quay. The proposed route will make it easier and safer to walk, cycle and wheel for residents and visitors.

Did you know that around 60% of journeys, we take, between one and two miles are by car? Choosing to use the car less, even just once a week, can make a big difference to your health, purse and the planet.

Community groups in Argyll and Bute could see their wishes and ideas come to life through the council’s Community Benefit Scheme.