Learning and skills

Livestock farmers in Lanarkshire and the Cairngorms will have the opportunity to benefit from free business support via The Royal Countryside Fund’s (RCF) Farm Resilience Programme which gets underway again this autumn.

Two Funds to help Women in Forestry get access to training and wider Future Forester training for all have become available again, thanks to Scottish Forestry and Lantra Scotland.

A national campaign to support young people to safely navigate social media and prevent violence has been launched.

‘Quit Fighting For Likes’ aims to get young people to think about and discuss attitudes and behaviours around the filming and sharing of violent incidents.

Dr Jane Atterton, Senior Lecturer, Rural Economy Environment And Society, Rural Policy Centre and Senior Lecturer, Scotland's Rural College recently attended a webinar on rural proofing, organised by Horizon Europe funded projects working on the RUSTIK* and GRANULAR** projects.

Woodland Trust want to make sure everybody in the UK has the chance to plant a tree. So they are giving away hundreds of thousands of trees to schools and communities. Together, we'll get millions more trees in the ground!

An independent evaluation of a project based in Shetland that aims to tackle child poverty has been published.

As the native oyster season opens (1st September), Scotland’s oyster festival has announced a new celebration of nature, right in the heart of the festival site.

As the UK Government announces its intention to appoint a National Resilience Wildfire Adviser - it is of significance that leading lights from the world of wildfire have been announced as speakers at this year’s UK Wildfire Conference to be held in Aberdeen. 

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.