Aberdeenshire Council

The 2017-18 Rural Leadership programme is now open for applications.

The programme is aimed at business managers and employees from rural businesses who want to develop their leadership skills and grow their business. It is delivered on behalf of Scottish Enterprise by SAC Consulting.

SAC Consulting are looking to recruit 45 applicants for 13 days of activities between late October 2017 and March 2018.

A practical, informative meeting with Jo Scamell, Ground Level Nutrition on why soil health is crucial for optimum production of crops and livestock, how you can influence soil health to provide higher yields and healthier stock, looking at and beyond the chemical and the physical. Providing answers to your soil related questions. Free of charge to farmers and land managers and £40.00 plus VAT to others.

A new fund to support affordable rural housing development has been created by the Scottish Government. This £25M grant fund is available to a range  of organisations including community trusts, landowners, and development trusts.

The School of Law is delighted to be hosting a one-day conference that will bring together interdisciplinary partners to comment on an issue of recurring importance to Scotland and Scottish society: land reform.

Unique concerts in unique settings. Internationally acclaimed musicians, Kimberly Boyle and Nils Klofver, will be presenting an evening of classical and contemporary music in the stunning setting of Braemar Castle on Friday 12 August.

The evening of flute and guitar music will feature classical masterpieces, arrangements of much-loved Scottish folk songs and the wrold premier of a newly commissioned work by Scottish composer Eddie McGuire.

Tickets are £12 and include a tour of the castle, commencing one hour before the performance and a glass of wine.

Taken over a two-year period, the photographs include a variety of scenic countryside locations, typically small parish churches and rural graveyards. We find such Scottish landscapes are commonly altered by an assortment of objects including family burial grounds, mausoleums, graveyards, grave markers, graves, mortsafes, monuments and tombs. These objects are carefully crafted and speak of a belief in a Rapture, when the body is said to rise up from the earth. The photographs show how this belief has impacted our landscape over the last few centuries.