Winter Newsletter: Welcome, 2025!
The start of this new year has gifted us some gorgeous weather, and with the days getting longer, we hope you’re looking forward to all the adventures to be had in 2025.
We’re busy looking to the year ahead too, continuing to build on all the amazing things we’ve achieved in 2024. Take a look at what we’ve been getting up to since our last update…
Autumn Newsletter: A Season of Connection!
Summer has been and gone already, and we’re looking forward to slowing down and getting on with some big projects this Autumn and Winter. But first, let’s recap what’s been happening over the past few months…
Adventure Oban takes on Active Travel!
The team at Adventure Oban are very excited to introduce our new project: Active Routes to Schools. This latest project aims to encourage young people in and around Oban to commute to school more actively, as well as make the area a safer, more enjoyable place to walk and...
Summer Newsletter: Summer, is that you?!
Although the weather isn’t saying so, summer is finally here! Which means we’ve got another quarterly newsletter that we are thrilled to share with you. Take a look at what’s brought us together this season and what we're looking forward to in the months to come…
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…
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…
Atlantis Leisure and Adventure Oban Team Up to Launch 'Out and About' Project
We’re delighted to announce a new partnership with Atlantis Leisure as we launch an exciting new joint initiative aimed at enhancing community engagement and promoting…
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…
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!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
May Newsletter: One Million Miles Circumnavigates the Globe!
Earlier last week, One Million Miles passed 27,000 miles! - we circumnavigated the world on…
Adventure Oban & BID4Oban Reopen Ganavan Toilets
Thanks to a voluntary community effort led by Adventure Oban and made possible by BID4Oban, the toilets at Ganavan will be open during the weekend until April, the toil…
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…