Learning and skills

Learning Exchange: Community Wealth Building in Tarbert and Gigha

Organised in Partnership between Social Enterprise Scotland and the Rural Social Enterprise Hub - we are please to offer this community learning exchange to Tarbert Harbour Authority (THA) and Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust (IGHT), two rural organisations with extensive experience in community wealth building.
 

Small communities across the Highlands are set to benefit from two new mobile library vehicles.

Over the next six weeks, a series of events will take place around Scotland aimed at combining the serious business of advice and support to help farmers prepare for the future, with a chance for a pre-lambing social over a bite to eat. 

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) has taken the keys to its new glasshouse as part of the multimillion-pound redevelopment and modernisation project at Newton Nursery near Elgin.

Webinar: Community benefits from renewable energy developments

Community benefits are additional benefits that renewable energy developers provide to communities to enable them to share in the benefits of renewable energy projects. Community benefits schemes are well established and saw over £30 million offered by renewables developers in community benefits in the last 12 months.

Scottish Rural Action (SRA) have announce that Scotland will be hosting the sixth European Rural Parliament (ERP), bringing a 40-country delegation to Aberdeenshire, Moray and the Cairngorms National Park area in the Autumn of 2025.

Food for Thought: Conversations Across Argyll & Bute

Be part of the conversation about food, community, and sustainability at Food for Thought: conversations across Argyll & Bute, a series of events hosted by Argyll and Bute Climate Action Network (ABCAN) and the Argyll & Bute Sustainable Food Partnership.

Scientists in Scotland have developed a new method to understand the heat and intensity of fires that burned out millions of years ago, which could unlock our understanding of wildfires during past and present periods of climate change.

Inspiring and influential voices in the sustainable tourism sector have come together to focus on the opportunity for environmental improvement.

Environmental charity Keep Scotland Beautiful coordinated the event, hosted by the Royal Yacht Britannia Trust, onboard Fingal in Edinburgh on Thursday 6 February 2025.

Previous research by the University of Stirling and The James Hutton Institute found that planting birch and Scots pine trees in heather moorland ecosystems with carbon-rich soils was linked to soil carbon losses that were similar to the amount of carbon captured in the trees, meaning that overall, no net carbon was captured in the first few decades following tree planting.

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