Ardfern for Argyll

The Environmental Health department of Argyll and Bute Council is offering non-means-tested grants of up to £800 to people with private water supplies who are interested in improving them. Phone 01546 604131 for details and enquiries or go to the Private Water Supplies page of the Council’s website.

Tony Gill visits a beautiful, isolated island on the West Coast of Scotland, but he doesn’t have a dog. Produced with Mags Russell, and music by Wild Biscuit studios.

The latest video shot by Tony Gill for the Ardfern Team (with editing expertise from Mags Russell, the team’s Buddy) on the Out There for Argyll project.
Nancy is from San Francisco. Ardfern has worked its magic on her.

Tony Gill, a furniture-maker living in Ardfern, has been invited to show at this year’s Celebration of Craftsmanship & Design Exhibition in Cheltenham. The event, which is considered to be the premier showcase for fine furniture makers in the UK, takes place 16th. - 25th. August 08 in Thirlestaine Long Gallery, Cheltenham College. This is [...]

The Ardfern community had hoped that Fyne Homes would be able to build affordable housing on part of the Glebe land in the village, with other parts of the land used to support games and sport. Unfortunately Fyne Homes do not have the funding to do this at the moment and the scheme is back [...]

Caught at the first training day of the For Argyll project way back when: Daniel in the foreground - after a large night locally; Tony in the background and, back to camera, tutor Charles Dixon-Spain. Photo: Lynda Syed from the Furnace team.

Our second video training day took place - er, the other day - and for the first time for many of us we actually opened the camera box and pressed the buttons. Three teams - for there were three cameras available - were created and we all went out and invaded Furnace and its [...]

Ardfern is renowned, maybe within itself, for producing a plethera of talented, bohemian musicians. Over the last few years, events such as the Elemental Arts Festival have staged a number of ‘Open mic’ nights as well as bringing well known Scottish and International musicians to the area.
Recently there has been a focus on young, new, [...]

Ardfern were one of four community groups to take part in the first training session of ‘For Argyll’ an exciting new internet radio project.  The other groups represented were from Lismore, Furnace and womanatwork.  A presentation and overview was given by Lynda Henderson who also introduced folk to Charles who’s in charge of website stuff and John who’s [...]

Welcome to http://ardfern.forargyll.com Ardfern on the world internet map at last. No longer a backwater on the world stage, this vibrant community is now exposed for all to see and hear. Watch out chaps, be careful what you say. The world is watching.
Stay here, keep coming back. Be part of Ardfern, find your way [...]