- Joint Management Committee of Castle Toward is dissolved on the guarantee that a ninety-nine year lease is granted to Actual Reality to ensure the continuation of the outdoor education centre - Get more detailed information.
- Ninety-nine year lease is denied – Get more detailed information
- Argyll & Bute Council moves to sell Castle Toward as residential property - Get more detailed information
- Argyll & Bute Council ignores the bid made by Actual Reality to buy Castle Toward in order to maintain the outdoor education facility. Get more detailed information
- Argyll & Bute Council purposefully brings about the closure of Castle Toward by causing delays in upgrades required so that Actual Reality are no longer able to function from the centre – Get more detailed information
- Argyll & Bute Council now proposes to market Castle Toward once more
Argyll & Bute Council have relentlessly pursued an alternative agenda for Castle Toward, designed to achieve the voluntary exit of its operator so that the authority can claim to be legitimately pursuing alternative uses for the estate.
In pursuit of this outcome, Argyll & Bute council has misled members of its own council and had faced-down opposition from the other authorities it was in partnership with.
Health & well-being, team working, confidence and affective learners, music and drama, sport and environmental education do not feature in the vocabulary of this exercise and neither, it seems, does ethical, moral, trustworthy, integrity, fairness, justice, public service, transparency or vision.
The options are:
Roll over and let these inglorious people succeed, or,
Rise to the challenge of overcoming their disagreeable goings on.