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Argyll and Bute Council has taken an innovative approach to ensure that young people feel safe, secure and resilient as they settle back into school-life after lockdown. With pupils having spent a lot of time away from friends in recent months, and many no doubt feeling anxious, the council teamed up with Scout Adventures Lochgoilhead and Ardroy and Benmore Outdoor Education Centres, to develop an itinerary of outdoor learning activities for children and young people across Argyll and Bute, focussing on positive health and wellbeing.

The pandemic has required every aspect of our working lives to adapt to more challenging circumstances and regional improvement collaboratives set up to support education and children’s services teams across Scotland are no exception.

Argyll and Bute Council has reduced its carbon emissions by 27% over the past five years. Its carbon report 2019/20 shows that its emissions have dropped for the third year in a row, thanks to a wide range of actions. The council will invest more than £1.2 million in action to save energy and deliver progress in becoming a net zero carbon emissions organisation by 2045.

Talented pupils from Islay High School narrowly missed out on winning this year’s FilmG Gaelic Learners Award after beating off stiff competition and being shortlisted for the final. FilmG is an annual competition organised by MG ALBA, which celebrates Gaelic screen talent and attracts hundreds of applications each year.

Argyll and Bute Council will invest more than £1.2 million in action to save energy and deliver progress in becoming a net zero carbon emissions organisation by 2045.  The steps planned are also expected to deliver financial savings that will cover the cost of the investment in ten years.  The council’s estate and buildings account for over 20% of its overall carbon footprint, through use of electricity, gas, heating oil and water in premises. 

Argyll and Bute Council has reduced its carbon emissions by 27% over the past five years.  Its carbon report 2019/20 shows that its emissions have dropped for the third year in a row, thanks to a wide range of actions.  These include buildings being made more energy and heat efficient, traditional lightbulbs being replaced with LED, and a move to electric or hybrid vehicles. 

Argyll and Bute Council has agreed local actions to support the aims of the global climate change conference planned in Glasgow later this year. Several hundred thousand delegates are expected to attend the Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow’s Scottish Exhibition Centre (SEC) from 1st-12th November 2021. Around 120 world leaders, potentially including US President Biden, China’s President Xi Jinping and His Holiness Pope Francis, are expected to come together to discuss global concerns about climate change.

Argyll and Bute Council’s Policy and Resources Committee today agreed a £747,000 investment in growing the economy of Oban and the surrounding area.

Funding to support events and festivals for 2021/2022 across Argyll and Bute has today been agreed at the Policy and Resources Committee.

Argyll and Bute Council is seeking bids from organisations wishing to deliver activity as part of the UK Community Renewal Fund. Aimed at stimulating growth and supporting people and communities, the Fund is part of the UK Government’s No one left Behind agenda. Argyll and Bute has been identified as one of the priority areas for the fund which involves the distribution of a total of £220 million of funding for 2021/22 across the whole of the UK.