Live Argyll Community Learning Services Update
Argyll and Bute Council · 4 November 2025
Back to Bute and Cowal Area Community Planning Group — 4 November 2025 and its agenda
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Cowal Youth Work Update Youth Voice Showcase LiveArgyll’s Youth Work Team are hosting their Youth Voice Showcase event on Monday 24 November at The Queen’s Hall in Dunoon. The event will highlight and celebrate the work and achievements of Youth Action Group’s across the local authority as they roll out their new Youth Action Council. There will be interactive presentations, an opportunity to engage with the young people and network whilst learning about youth led community learning and development processes. Invites have gone out to “influencers” such as MSP’s, local councillors, head teachers and school staff as well as strategic partners such as Scottish Fire & Rescue, Police Scotland, SDS, DYW, and local partners. If anyone would like any information on the event or would like to attend the event, please contact either myself or Shona Edwards by Friday 31 October. Girls Group - Girls group has started back for the next block which will run until the first week in December. Group is open to girls and young women P7 to S3 every Wednesday evening 5.45pm till 7.15pm at Queens Hall. Youth Action Group – the group is still in its infancy; however, we have a core of 5 young people S1-S6 meeting weekly to help drive the group forward. The group met up with the Helensburgh group during the October break to discuss UNCRC and what the articles meant to them, the challenges of recruitment to YAG, explored issues within their community, who the people of influence were within their communities that they needed to communicate with to address issues of concern. Dunoon School Hostel - Working with Active Schools to deliver a Taster programme for the young people at the school hostel on the themes of health & wellbeing, life skills and physical activity. The programme will start on 6 November for 6 weeks taking place both at the hostel and Dunoon Grammar School.
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Wider Achievement - Continuing to support to several groups and individual young people working on a range of Wider Achievement Awards – Dynamic Youth Awards, Youth Achievement Awards at both Bronze and Silver level and Participative Democracy Certificate. Social 22 - Continues to be a success with over 700 young people to date using the youth space on a Friday night. A sewing workshop in partnership with Dunoon Community Development Trust ran for 4 weeks and was very popular with the young people bringing along clothing for repair, repurposing outgrown clothes into other items of clothing and making bags out of material scraps. Upcoming events include a Halloween disco, craft sessions and pool/PS4 competitions. The junior committee is now in place, and they will be supported in their roles by myself. MSYP – Tyler Murray has resigned as MSYP for Argyll & Bute due to focus on their other commitments.