Argyll and Bute Council submission of 18 February 2022 PE1912/E - Funding for Council Venues Submission by Argyll and Bute Council Like many other Scottish Councils, Argyll and Bute has established an organisation to run venues and provide some of its essential services – Live Argyll. Community Leisure UK (Scotland) is the representative body of Scotland’s public leisure and culture charities have stated - ‘Scotland’s public leisure and culture charities have weathered the storm of the last 21 months of the pandemic due to support through the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme and from local authority partners.