Enterprise

The annual Countryside Alliance Awards are now open to public nomination, and Scottish Rural Network (SRN) is urging local rural and island communities to get nominating.

Details of how the Scottish Government will deliver their priorities over the lifetime of the National Islands Plan have been published in a route map.

It identifies the methods to monitor progress towards fulfilling the many commitments in the Plan and sets out timescales for delivery of our work.

A framework committing partners (councils, consenting bodies, statutory consultees, developers, and Scottish Government) to work together to facilitate planning and consenting processes in Green Freeport sites has been published by Scottish Government.

A landmark report commissioned by the Crofting Commission, and prepared by BiGGAR Economics, has unveiled the extraordinary economic contribution of crofting to Scotland.

The findings reveal that crofting generates a staggering £588 million in Gross Value Added (GVA) annually and sustains an impressive 30,385 jobs across the country.

Yesterday First Minster John Swinney anounced his new Programme for Government (PfG), which focussed on actions to progress four priorities.

These are:

The newly refurbished Carloway Community Centre was officially opened last week (29th of August) by Her Royal Highness the Princess Royal, who joined Iain Macaulay, Lord-Lieutenant of the Western Isles, for a tour of the upgraded facilities on the Isle of Lewis.

Plunkett UK is offering a limited number of small development grants of up to £2,000 to community groups in rural Scotland looking to bring their pub/hotel into community ownership.