Sustainability Market
Part of our Earth Month programme
Date: Sunday 23rd April
Time: 10am-4pm (drop in throughout the day)
Age: All ages
Place: Oak Room, The Rockfield Centre
Cost: Free!
Indoor educational market
Join us at The Rockfield Centre for our sustainability market! We welcome a host of local organisations working on exciting projects in Argyll.
As well as stalls from our participating organisations, we will have workshops and creative activities throughout the day for friends and family of all ages to learn more about our incredible local environment.
The Rockfield Centre also has an exhibition of artworks from artists who took part in the Argyll Hope Spot snorkelling residency, which you can find out more about here.
Learn more about our participating organisations below.
The Nature Library
The Nature Library is a travelling library and reading space dedicated to stories of land, sky and sea. Created by Christina Riley in 2019, the library seeks to highlight the beauty, complexity and value of all living things, offering new routes to knowing and caring for the world of which humans are but one small part. The Nature Library will be joining our sustainability market with books and a zine workshop, alongside their collection for you to sit and enjoy reading in our upstairs gallery.
Print your own Earth Month Design!
Bring an old t-shirt, tote bag or piece of fabric and leave with a new item for your wardrobe with your very own Earth Month design on it!
Suitable for all ages, The Rockfield Centre will be on hand to print a series of designs that can give an old item a new lease of life.
This activity is suitable for everyone and if you don’t have a fabric item to bring along with you then we will have some available for use, as well as donated paper for wall prints.
Designs by Renuka Ramanujam.
ACT (Argyll & The Isles Coast & Countryside Trust)
Our mission is to sustainably maintain, enhance and promote the coast and countryside of Argyll and the Isles. Why? Because it is a spectacular part of the world that everyone should be able to enjoy.
What we do
We work in partnership with communities, public agencies, third sector and private organisations to design and implement projects that make a difference to people and landscapes. We cover a diverse and exciting range of topics, including conservation, climate change, tourism, education and health and wellbeing, that all contribute to achieving our vision of a coastal and countryside environment that is valued and enjoyed by everyone.
Argyll Hope Spot
The first in mainland UK, Argyll Coasts & Islands Hope Spot is shedding light on the immense beauty, rich history & vibrant life of the Argyll coast & islands.
The Hope Spot designation shines a light on the immense beauty, rich history and vibrant life of the Argyll coast and islands, both locally and internationally.
Argyll Coasts & Islands Hope Spot is a community-led initiative. Its designation is a celebration and recognition of the world-class natural riches of this part of Scotland’s coast. For generations these have sustained the coastal communities scattered across this beautiful and diverse landscape. Let’s make sure they continue to do so far into the future.
Footprint Alba
Footprint Alba is an environmental social team creating opportunities and awareness to facilitate community action and education in woodlands and along the coast across Oban, Lorn and the Isles. Delivering positive sustainable impact for wildlife and the environment, promoting health and well-being, we aim to benefit all who are living in, learning in, working in or visiting the area. As volunteers for national charities such as Marine Conservation Society and Surfers Against Sewage (including Plastic Free) we also bring a local voice to campaigns and citizen science projects. We’re working with others to create sustainable solutions for the recovery and recycling of marine plastics from beaches and waters across Scotland.
And…. we’re excited to finally be building the new Eco Station at The Rockfield Centre!
Follow @footprintalba on Instagram
The Grab Trust
The GRAB Trust was formed in 1993 to address waste and recycling issues in Argyll & Bute. It is a charitable social enterprise that has been providing activities in relation to recycling in Argyll and Bute for 20 years. The GRAB Trust exists to seek the preservation and maintenance of the natural quality of the environment of Argyll and Bute by means of participating in and encouraging sustainable environmental and waste management activities by the wider Argyll and Bute public. The GRAB Trust recognizes that for the public to be interested and active in sustainable environmental projects they need to be suitably informed of the issues and to be fully involved in their local community projects.
Plastic Free Communities
Plastic Free Communities by Surfers Against Sewage is a large community network (over 900 groups across the UK!) tackling single-use plastic from beaches & green spaces all the way back to the brands and businesses who create it at source.
Globally, regionally and locally, many individuals, groups and businesses are active in the fight against plastic pollution; it all counts, it all matters. Many are rethinking their impact and removing avoidable, single-use plastic, joining forces within their community on the journey to unite in the changes needed to protect planet Earth.
Celebrate your actions to date, work towards the Plastic Free Champion Award, take the Community Plastic Free Pledge or join the local teams as a volunteer!
In Argyll, we have active Plastic Free Communities in Oban, Dunbeg, Helensburgh, Kintyre, Mull and Tiree. Together, we can make sure we kick our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and to help change the system that produces it.
Refill by City to Sea - Argyll Scheme
Refill is an award-winning campaign from the charity ‘City to Sea’ to help people live with less plastic. The vision: A world where everyone can choose to reuse wherever they eat, drink and shop.
Almost any public place can become a Refill point! A free app allows anyone to tap into a global network of places to reduce, reuse and refill. From a coffee on your travels, drinking water on-the-go or shopping with less plastic and packaging, Refill puts the power to reduce single-use plastic at your fingertips.
Come and join us in the Refill Revolution as a business, a community space or as a volunteer!
Scottish Association for Marine Science
The Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) is Scotland’s largest and oldest independent marine science organisation, delivering marine science for a productive and sustainably managed marine environment through innovative research, education and engagement with society.
Based in Oban, our marine research and teaching portfolio is diverse in topic and discipline, global in outlook, project locations and relevance, and delivered by a SAMS team with can-do attitude working in partnership with academic, business, government, regulatory, voluntary and civic society colleagues.
Seaweed Gardens
Seaweed Gardens is a local collective of researchers, creatives and growers. Seaweed Gardens are a group of active citizens working with the seaweed growing on our coast to make better soil in community garden projects, learning about the local seas in the process and then reimagining them through art in the wider community.
Follow Seaweed Gardens on Instagram @seaweedgardens. Or join our Facebook group.
New members welcome!