{"id":73506,"date":"2026-05-02T19:07:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73506\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T19:07:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T19:07:12","slug":"chief-executive-and-councillor-to-visit-festival-in-denmark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/73506\/","title":{"rendered":"Chief executive and councillor to visit festival in Denmark"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t\t\t\"\"Bornholm in Denmark. Image: Pixabay<\/p>\n

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A councillor and senior civil servant will go to a festival in Denmark so they can help plan an event on Bute.<\/p>\n

Argyll and Bute Council decided this week to support plans for the island to stage a Scottish version of a festival originating in Denmark.<\/p>\n

The island has been suggested as a possible venue for the People\u2019s Meeting, which allows people of all political parties to come together in a neutral environment.<\/p>\n

Argyll and Bute Council\u2019s chief executive Pippa Milne will travel to the Danish festival on Bornholm in June, along with one of the area\u2019s councillors, on a fact-finding mission.<\/p>\n

The full council unanimously agreed to the trip, with councillors also voicing their support, at a meeting<\/a> on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Cllr Reeni Kennedy-Boyle said: \u201cI warmly welcome this initiative, and I think Bute is the ideal place for this to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have experience of hosting things like the Isle of Bute Festival, and Rothesay Pavilion<\/a> has much to offer.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere will be a lot of knowledge and learning exchanged and I would ask that members on Bute are included in dialogue, so that if delegates going to Denmark have any questions then answers can be provided to bring this to the region.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ms Milne said: \u201cAbsolutely, we have already heard that the scheme in Denmark relies heavily on local community groups.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is important that we do that and we need to ensure we share the learning from the trip, and would anticipate dealing with those on the island.\u201d<\/p>\n

Council leader Jim Lynch said the idea was \u201cworth exploring\u201d.<\/p>\n

He also said that if the proposal was backed by the council, then Cllr Math Campbell-Sturgess \u00a0would replace him in visiting the festival in Denmark.<\/p>\n

Cllr Campbell-Sturgess, who is the policy lead for business development, said: \u201cThe reason I think this is a very positive idea is that Bute is almost a carbon copy of the island in Denmark where the festival takes place.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe should do everything in our power to support this. The people element of this cannot be overstated and everything that can be done is vital. It will be Bute\u2019s festival and the people of Bute will be the ones that help it to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n

The council then unanimously approved sending Cllr Campbell-Sturgess and Ms Milne to the festival in Denmark in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bornholm in Denmark. Image: Pixabay A councillor and senior civil servant will go to a festival in Denmark…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73507,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2],"tags":[15030,27,26,39728,3876,39729,39730,39731,39732,125,6344],"class_list":["post-73506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-denmark","tag-bornholm","tag-danmark","tag-denmark","tag-fact-finding","tag-festival","tag-freebie","tag-junket","tag-math-campbell-sturgess","tag-pippa-milne","tag-premium","tag-trip"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116506555192860652","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}