ABCAN Map Argyll & Bute

We want everyone in Argyll and the Isles to experience and appreciate our spectacular coast and countryside. We believe that residents, businesses, and visitors should all be able to enjoy and benefit from this wonderful region, so we work hard to maintain, enhance, and promote our great outdoors.

Full Cycle repair station including pump

Adventure Oban is a community-led charity brought together by a shared love of the outdoors and the beautiful environment which we live in. We want everyone to enjoy equal access to Oban’s natural playground. We believe spending time in the water, out on the hills and generally outside is one of the best ways to keep our minds, body and community healthy - even more so when we do it together. 

ALIenergy works to promote sustainable energy use and renewable energy generation, to address fuel poverty and reduce carbon emissions.

We’re of our place and for our community. We aspire to be an island voice in a national and international conversation.  

We deliver safe, affordable, and accessible courses—reinvesting all profits to enhance our services.

Our aims are to foster community friendships, skill share, create inter-generational bonds and improve well-being through growing food and offering a welcoming green space and garden.

We're a group that continues the regeneration of approximately three acres of woodland which offers a unique facility to the local community, schools and visitors to the area.

Dunoon Burgh Hall has been the cornerstone of our town’s cultural and community life for 150 years.

The CHARTS network was conceived through the desire to create a sustainable future for the Culture, Heritage and Arts sector in Argyll.

Campbeltown Picture House is one of the first purpose built cinemas in Scotland, built in 1913. This Grade-A listed building is unique, with a Glasgow school art nouveau exterior and an equally impressive and unusual ‘atmospheric style’ interior. It survives today as a rare space, largely unaltered from the 1935 remodelling by the original architect Albert V. Gardner. The Centenary Project was completed in December 2017 restoring this magnificent building and creating a modern cinema destination complete with a second screen, new foyer and café, and spaces for exhibitions, displays, education and community activities. In 2025 Campbeltown Picture House joined forces with Kintyre Climate Action group  to present Campbeltown Climate Action Film Festival, screening a series of films about climate change to spark conversation and encourage action.

Cardross CAN connects neighbours to share knowledge + experience of ways to care for our planet

Developing a Community Place Plan through a Climate Lens 

The award recognises the school’s commitment to embedding accredited Carbon Literacy training across its staff team and pupils to achieve certified Carbon Literate status.

Community initiative focused on local food production

Large polytunnel for community growers to rent a growing bed for veg etc. Run by the community for the community and providing resilience socially and economically.

Coll Growing Group was set up on the Isle of Coll in 2022 to support growing on the island. They do this through practical growing activities and through the sharing of information and expertise.

The Cormonachan Community Woodlands are 63.9 ha (158 acres) of ancient Atlantic oak & hazel woodlands and part of Scotland’s Rainforest and have the status of being ‘Ancient Semi Natural Woodlands’ (ASNW) being preserved for Education, Conservation and Recreation.

The villages of Cove and Kilcreggan are situated on the Rosneath peninsula which is on the north shore of the river Clyde opposite Gourock. The community was established in the 19th Century when Clyde steamers brought it within easy reach of Glasgow, 25 miles to the West. Kilcreggan still retains its Victorian pier from which a foot ferry connects it with Gourock. The combined population of the villages is 1,280 people.

We connect people, ideas and resources. 

  Dunoon Foodbank and Community Hub serves the Cowal community!  

At Cowal’s southernmost tip lies a sweep of Atlantic rainforest called Glenan Wood, owned and managed by the local community.

Fun First has been running accessible, baby and toddler sessions in Helensburgh for over 20 years.

Getting to the roots of Rhododendron ponticum