Learning and skills

Community Energy Fortnight Webinars

Community Energy Scotland is celebrating Community Energy Fortnight with a series of webinars to discuss important topics around community energy.

Heat Network Webinar with CES and Swaffam Prior;

Thu, Jul 4 • 1:30 PM 

River Dee Trust – Volunteer Day at Garthdee

For this volunteering day, you will be helping the team take on the removal of Himalayan Balsam.

ISJ Horticulture, a leading packer and supply chain manager to the horticultural sector has been helping local schools around Perth and Kinross to dig deep in a bid to educate them about the origins of the food they eat.

Highland Community Lottery Launch & Information Session

Highland Third Sector Interface is pleased to announce the launch of a new initiative: the Highland Community Lottery. 

Community Energy Scotland have developed a Community Action Handbook, based on the Carbon Neutral Island (CNI) project. It has been designed as an accessible and practical resource for use by communities wishing to take action on climate change.

SRUC have today (24 June) published the third instalment of the Rural Land Market Insights Report series with the Scottish Land Commission (SLC).

This year's report draws on in-depth interviews with 17 land agents from a range of sectors (agriculture, forestry and estates) operating across Scotland. The interviews highlighted a year of challenges and growing caution in the Scottish land market.

Saving Wildcats talk at Laggan Village Hall

European wildcats crossed from the Continent into Britain after the end of the last Ice Age, around 9,000 years ago. Once widespread, the species is now on the brink of extinction in Scotland. A sad history of habitat loss, persecution and, more recently, breeding with domestic cats, has forced the Highland Tiger to a point where the population is no longer viable.  Without urgent action, wildcats will be lost forever from our shores.

Introduction to the community heat development programme

The programme supports communities and groups of householders to work together to develop their proposals to heat houses and other buildings in their communities in a more environmentally friendly way. This fund will be closed to new applications on 31 August 2024, or when funding is fully allocated, whichever is sooner, so join us if you would like to hear more about the programme.

General Election Hustings - focus on rural and island futures

While many of the policy areas SRA's members focus on are devolved to the Scottish Government, matters reserved to Westminster have equally far-reaching consequences .

South West Scotland Future Landscapes Conference

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) and South of Scotland Enterprise (SOSE) are proud to host the first South West Scotland Future Landscape Conference. This event will also launch the SRUC/SOSE Natural Capital Innovation Partnership.

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