Learning and skills

Lantra have announced that the Women in Scottish Aquaculture (WiSA) Mentoring Programme will be active again in 2025, with the announcement that the scheme is open for applications.

The Great Yellow bumblebee (Bombus distinguendus) was once widespread throughout Great Britain. Habitat loss, however, has driven its decline and it can now only be found in northern Scotland in Orkney, Sutherland and Caithness, and some of the Hebridean islands.

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) is seeking feedback from contractors through use of a survey to provide maintenance and improvements across its wide range of buildings. 

Finalists have now been named for Lantra Scotland’s Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills (the ALBAS), which will take place at Crieff Hydro Hotel on Thursday 6 March 2025.

The ALBAS play a vital role in promoting careers within the rural sector, celebrating the achievements of learners and highlighting the importance to employers of investing in skills.

Community Power: Generation and Repowering

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.

Tea and Trees with Crofters

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:

The Gathering 2025

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.

Planning for Change: Making the most of Whole Farm Plans

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.

2025 DiversiTree Webinar

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:

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