Another all-weather section for Crinan Canal towpath
As part of the urbanisation of our waterways, a £1 million partnership project from Scottish Canals in partnership with Sustrans, the sustainable transport charity and local authorities, a series of...
View ArticleOnline shoppers can also help First Aid 4 Gambia
Online shoppers in Argyll and elsewhere – and those who have not yet shopped online – are being urged to help raise funds for a local good cause.First Aid 4 Gambia exists to bring first response...
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Oban & Lorn Horticultural Society support two local charities
The proceeds of an auction at Oban & Lorn Horticultural society’s flower show last year have been donated to two worthwhile local charities, each focused on the lives of those in trouble in...
View ArticleTobermory Lifeboat celebrates Bastille day on Coll
Saturday evening, 13th July, saw Tobermory RNLI lifeboat celebrate the French national holiday, Bastille Day, in style at an RNLI fundraiser on the Isle of Coll.Locals and visitors alike enjoyed a...
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Two teenagers set to cross Iceland on foot – for Mary’s Meals
Two school friends from Downside School in Somerset are hoping to be the youngest adventurers to complete a full crossing of Iceland on foot, to raise money for international charity Mary’s Meals –...
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Message from ‘Kayaks on the Shetland Bus’ team back home in success
Back home and back to their other lives are the entire team who have delivered and witnessed the successful retracing of the route of the World War II ‘Shetland Bus’ supply and escape route for the...
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Admiration from Sir Chris Hoy for 13 year old Charlie Doherty’s cycle to...
For Argyll has published articles before on 13 year old Charlie Doherty’s long standing commitment to raising money for for Mary’s Meals, the international child food aid charity.The photograph above...
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Vintage tractor mechanic wanted by Auchindrain for 1950s Fergie
Auchindrain, the preserved highland farm township near Inveraray, the only one of its kind left in Scotland, has just put 1950s agricultural equipment back on the road.The little grey Ferguson tractor,...
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Investment in people and place: the Kintyre Club and the Village at Mach Dunes
Presentations of one kind of investment in Kintyre communities took place yesterday afternoon, 2th July, at the Ugadale Hotel in Machrihanish, part of Southworth Developments’ breathtakingly vast...
View ArticleTobermory lifeboat on two shouts, one that ‘makes the blood run cold’
Last Tuesday night, 23rd July, Tobermory RNLI’s volunteer crew were diverted from their weekly training exercise to respond to a yacht in difficulty.The Severn Class lifeboat, Elizabeth Fairlie Ramsey,...
View ArticleHelensburgh CND commemorate Hiroshima
The Clydeside town of Helensburgh, Argyll’s largest town, will see Helensburgh CND commemorate the 68th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August.They will be floating lanterns off...
View ArticleHelp from Seafarers’ Children’s Support
A parent facing tough times bringing up their children, may apply to the Seafarers’ Children’s Support charity – if either they or their partner has worked at sea.They may have served with the Royal...
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Letter of thanks for 11 hour rescue a first for Tobermory Lifeboat Station...
The RNLI’s new Chairman, Charles Hunter-Pease came to Tobermory’s annual Lifeboat Day yesterday – Sunday 18th August – to present two Coxswains with letters of appreciation for their part in the rescue...
View ArticleTwo shouts in 6 hours yesterday for Tobermory Lifeboat
Tobermory’s RNLI volunteer crew were paged at lunchtime on Tuesday 20th August to go to the assistance of a woman diver with suspected decompression sickness or ‘bends’.The diver was transferred from a...
View ArticleTomorrow’s Round Kerrera Sea Kayak Race proceeds go to Oban Lifeboat for 4th...
More than 80 kayakers will arrive en masse in Oban Bay tomorrow (Saturday August 24th) for one of the sport’s biggest races in the UK.The competition, which circumnavigates the isle of Kerrera, is the...
View ArticleSNP Group Leader wanted to take them straight into opposition
It transpires that Derek Mackay, Minister for Local Government in the SNP Scottish Government advised that the SNP group of councillors – elected to lead in the political management of Argyll and Bute...
View ArticleTime to vote for new trustees for board of National Trust for Scotland
With the polls due to close on Friday 13th September, local members of the National Trust for Scotland are being reminded that tto vote for trustees to serve as trustees on the conservation charity’s...
View ArticleSam Coley of SAMTEQ is Argyll’s Top Young Entrepreneur with Leonie Woolf...
Dunoon-based web solutions provider Sam Coley – who created the Explore Argyll website for Argyll and the Isles Tourism and who is pioneering an approach to interactive touch screen information...
View ArticleChinwag 2013 in Oban for youth work volunteers and leaders
What a good word it is – chinwag – and how long is it since we heard it in use?But from Saturday 5th October at 10am until Sunday 6th October at 2pm – at Kilbowie Outdoor Centre in Oban - Chinwag is...
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After Tiree: swimmer Anna Wardley’s charity auction today, a week ahead of...
While Tiree remains unfinished business – and she’ll be back – long distance endurance swimmer Anna Wardley is about to tackle the last of her 5 Islands challenge swims.In around a week’s time, she...
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