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FUNDRAISER – Beetle Drive - April 23rd. Lots of fantastic prizes. Help us keep the garden growing by supporting our fundraiser to purchase for plants for the new season. Tea /Cake and a bit of fun for all ages - all for donation of £2.50
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Next garden tidy up and planting on site Sat 30th April 2011 . All help welcomed, whether it be 10 mins or half an hour. All welcome. Do not need to be a gardener to help us out.
Join us on site – have some fun, or just come along to have a blether – we are always keen to stop for a cuppa.
Picture from our last planting day sat 9th April 2011 . 
- thank you to all who came along to help. Fantastic day – hope same for the 30th
Pictures from our BIG lunch BBQ. Hope you all enjoyed your afternoon and we will see you all at our future events
Join us for the BIG lunch BBQ – Sunday 18th July 2010 – 1 pm – Garden site. All welcome.
Don’t miss out on some fun for all the family at Oban Community Sensory Garden
Full poster BIG lunch BBQ
Charities Day – another great day of fundraising – well done to everyone and
thanks to help from Digi Al this year
Big thank you to all who came along on the 8th June to our tidy up and planting day. Great fun and lots of fantastic photos .
Here are just a few 
Rather than sitting eating your sandwiches at your desk , join us for some fresh air over your lunch hour? Why not come along to the site and assist with our general tidy up of the garden - Tuesday 8th June 12.00- 2.30pm. All welcome
Watch this space for annoucements of other social activities on site over the summer months.
Annual General Meeting
June 14th 2010 – Lorn Resource Centre, 7pm – Come along and support the Sensory Garden and join us after for tea and cakes. All welcome.
Film Night
Our film night allowed us to launch our Friends of OCSG scheme, for more information please contact any of our committee members.
Old Oban Film night
Big thank you to all who attended our very successful film night, special thanks to John MacLean for his presentation of the slides. Great night had by all.
Garden opening.
We are very grateful for the use of the Church for our buffet which allowed us to keep everyone dry and we did manage to get a five minute break from the rain for Calum to give a fantastic speech to declare the garden open.
Big Thank you to the Princes Trust volunteers
The Committee and members would like to thank all the young people from Clydebank who spent time last week tidying up the garden. Really appreciate your help and look forward to seeing you all again as visitors to the site if any of your are back in Oban. Moran Taing.
Charities Day
What a busy week planting thursday and our stall at charities day. Another successful day. Big thank you to Failte for bringing on the plants ready for sale and to all those who donated plants and other items for the stall – especially Sarah whose cards and jam went down a treat with the customers.
More photos on soon
June 2009
Initial planting commenced today – June 4th 2009 – thank you to all the volunteers who turned out to help – great to see the garden almost complete. Lots more photos soon
Compare the difference – before and after
AGM Thank you
Our committee would like to thank everyone for the support show at our recent AGM.
Garden Progress Dec 2008
The garden is already beginning to take shape – with the start of the layout for paths. Over the coming weeks we will endeavour to update with new photos to keep our friends from far and wide informed and allow them to watch the progress of the Garden.
Well done guys – yet again
Thanks go to everyone who supported our successful Indoor Car Boot Sale. Plans already afoot to repeat this event in the New Year – watch this space for news.
November 2008 – Help build our Garden Funds
We are hosting a CAR BOOT SALE on Nov 29th – Church Centre, Glencruitten Road Oban - 10 – 2 pm. – £5 per table
Following the success of last year Calendars we are happy to announce that Sarah has come up trumps for us again and presented us with some macnificient cards – picutures of Oban – to sell in aid of our project
Cards will be on sale at the CAR BOOT SALE or from any committee member.
Target achieved
Thanks to recent funding bid success we have reached our target figure for the construction of the garden.
Lottery Success
The group are delighted with our succesful lottery bid. £89,000 towards the project. Great start to what is going to be a very busy year for our group.
Why not be part of it. Contact Argyll Voluntary Action – 01631 564839.
Watch this space for progress throughout the year
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