Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future

This year’s conference – Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – invites participants to imagine the future they want to see for community landownership and land reform in Scotland. Community Land Scotland annual (CLS) members are world-leading, creative and hard-working, but the journey towards and beyond ownership can be full of unnecessary hurdles. In this historic year for community ownership, they want to hear your ideas about creating a legislative, funding and policy environment that genuinely enables and achieves change.

The conference is split into two distinct parts. The first day will have a traditional conference structure, with opportunities to learn from other community landowners. On the second day, CLS will be looking at how they can create that supportive environment. Attendees will be able to pick their own sessions and build on all the conversations that have developed on the first day – from ideas raised at the plenary sessions and workshops, to the impromptu conversations that have happened over coffee or in passing.

Following these break-out sessions, delegates will reconvene for a plenary session which will tie together discussions over the two days and share the ideas and actions that delegates have developed. At the end of the conference, they plan to publish a declaration, which CLS will use to create change in the policy and support environment.