CULTURE / THE ARTS / CLUBS

• Bute Arts Society
• Mount Stuart Visual Arts & Mount Stuart Performing Arts programmes
• Film Society
• Writers Group
• Literary Society
• Natural History Society (Buteshire Natural History Society)
• Chess Club
• Drama Club
• Young Drama Group
• Music Society / Choirs
• Young Pipers Group
• Art Galleries
• Dance schools
• Speakers Groups
• Visiting performers
• Large well-resourced Public Library with specialist Children's Library; also public Internet access.
  Online Library Catalogue
• Excellent event venues - Mount Stuart; Pavilion (1000+), School Hall, Rothesay Castle, etc
• Only 95 minutes away from the heritage / cultural / arts / entertainment heart of Glasgow

ENTERTAINMENT

• Active social scene
• Numerous restaurants and licensed hotels
• Mount Stuart Visitor Centre (Restaurant, Gallery, Shop and Plant Centre)
• Modernised luxury cinema screening the latest releases
• Excellent event venues - Mount Stuart; Pavilion (1000+), More, School Hall, Rothesay Castle, etc
• Amusement Centre
• Some 30 Pubs
• Live entertainment (local bands and numerous performing groups and individuals)

COMMUNITY BODIES / FACILITIES / SUPPORT GROUPS

• Bute Community Council
• Job Centre (On page 1, Step 1, scroll down and click on "All"; then click "Next"; On page 2 for "Name of Place" enter Rothesay, click "Next"; On page 3, click "Next")
• Advice Centre
• Bute Community Links
• The Moat Community Centre (Healthy Living Cafe, Creche, keep-fit, yoga, snooker, table-tennis, badminton, sequence-dancing, 5-a-side football, etc.)
• Bute Ramblers
• Bute Stroke Patients Support Group
• Bute Kidney Patients Support Group
• Bute Healthy Living Initiative
• Bute Bosom Buddies, breast-feeding initiative
• Alcoholics Anonymous
• Rothesay Maternity Services Users Group
• Bute Ferry Users' Group
• Beachwatch Bute
• Kingarth & Kilchattan Bay Improvements Committee

WEEKLY ISLAND NEWSPAPER (The Buteman)

• The Buteman website

SERVICE / OTHER ORGANISATIONS

• Rotary Club
• Women's Rural Institute
• Bute British Red Cross Society
• Scouting
• Active Horticultural Society (Bute Horticultural Society)
• Bute Agricultural Society