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Spring Newsletter: Stepping into Spring!

2024 marks a new era for Adventure Oban. With our first long-term member of staff, we have been launched into what is set to be an exciting year for us and our community! We’re an active, living organisation - just as our community is an active, living and…

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Adventure Oban and Active Travel - where do we stand?

If you can cast your mind back to late summer in 2022, Adventure Oban, along with Argyll and Bute Coast and Countryside Trust (ACT), another local charity, were lead community partners on developing an active travel plan for Oban. This…

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June Newsletter: Summer’s ‘Ere

So THIS is what it’s like to have daylight at 10pm! - it never fails to amaze us just how different living in our part of the world is in summer compared to winter (for the record: we do love both). We’ve been embracing the warmer climes as…

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April Newsletter: Everybody meet Barry!

The clocks have bounced forward, the birds rouse us from our sleep in the morning and evening light means activities can last longer after teatime - that’s right, Spring is sprung!

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Water Safety | Autumn Meet

Since we kicked off at the beginning of the year, we’ve been asking and listening to what is needed locally. One of the recurring requests has been for advice and training on how to interact with our…

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September Newsletter: We won an award!

Well, who needs international holidays when the West Coast gives us a summer like that! Record breaking temperatures made for lots of Factor50 and balmy BBQ evenings down the…

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July Newsletter: Schools out!

The ‘thwack’ of Wimbledon TV coverage can be heard through open windows, followed by Tour de France highlights enjoyed over iced lollies as freshly released school pupils bound into…

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Introducing #AdventurersofOban!

Introducing a new series which kicks off today called Adventurers of Oban. A big reason for Adventure Oban’s existence is to showcase the amazing activities and community that Oban is home to. We thought what better way to do that than to hear from the…

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June Newsletter: Adventure Oban Gets Set for Summer!

Another month has whizzed by since our last update - and what a month it’s been! Here’s a quick recap of what Adventure Oban and One Million Miles got up to during May as well as some of the highlights of what we’ve…

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Scottish Sea Farms Adventure Library Donation

Huge thanks to Scottish Sea Farms Ltd for their donation of 35 tow floats to the Adventure Library. Our chairman Dave Bleazard met David MacMillan and Drew MacKinnon of Scottish Sea Farms to receive them in the…

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Why are we here?

In August 2019, Oban Community Sports Hub, part of Live Argyll, held a meeting with all the sports and activity clubs in Oban to do a full analysis of community sport in the area. From this meeting, a working group…

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