Learning and skills

Join Community Energy Scotland for an engaging in-person event that brings together community energy organisations, stakeholders, and sector representatives to share experiences, tools, and insights for strengthening community cohesion and cooperation.

Join Scottish Forestry for an inspiring and interactive online event showcasing how integrating trees on your croft can work for you. 

This event will have two fantastic crofters share their experiences:

Join  for an insightful and interactive evening exploring how integrating trees into your farming practices can deliver significant benefits both now and in the future.

The next SCVO Gathering will take place in-person on 4th and 5th February 2025 at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre (EICC). Save the date in your diary.

Organised by SCVO, the Gathering is the largest free voluntary sector event in the UK. It's an opportunity for all the amazing people working in and with the voluntary sector to network, showcase what they do and learn from each other.

From 15 May 2025, in order to receive Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) payments, every farmer and crofter in Scotland will have to demonstrate that they have started to baseline land and livestock management practices, identified opportunities for improvement and are working towards being more sustainable, efficient and resilient.

This webinar will present the results from the DiversiTree project which aimed to increase resilience of current and future woodlands by working across a range of scales, from microbes to minds, to understand the methods to, and the impacts of, diversifying tree species composition. The project focussed on Sitka spruce and Scots pine forests and assessed:

This course is suitable for both new entrant AND experienced crofters.

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