Gathering - "Crofting: A Tradition for the Future"

The recently release “Value of Crofting” report highlighted what we already knew, that crofting is needed more than ever in the current climate. SCF believe that, with the right support, crofting traditions of sustaining local communities, retaining young people, enabling access to land, and nature-friendly, local food production can offer solutions to modern problems of depopulation, affordable housing, food security and climate & biodiversity breakdown.

However, these are challenging times and changes in policy do not always support the small-scale in general, or crofting in particular.

SCF Annual Gathering will weave together the traditional and the modern, the inspirational and the practical - much as crofting does itself - to define a resilient model of modern crofting and to set out what is needed to sustain this into the future.

"We want to reconnect with what unites us as crofters and restore the fire in our bellies to champion and sustain crofting communities in the modern world".  Jonathan Hedges, Rogart, Chair of SCF

"Crofting has played such an important role in sustaining the Highlands and Islands until now and I believe it is critical to our futures, so I am really excited to be attending the Gathering and being part of discussions about how to make that a reality." Megan McInnes, Applecross, Panel Speaker

Main Gathering: 9.30am to 5.30pm, including lunch
Ticket prices: Individual Member £20; Individual Non-member & Community Organisation (per attendee) £40;
                        Other Organisation (Public and Private Sector) £75 (per attendee).

Evening Entertainment: from 7.00pm
Drinks reception, sponsored by North Uist Distillery, followed by Gathering Dinner, 7.45pm and music with Padruig Morrison & friends.