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Thriving Village Halls: Inspiring Income Ideas Workshop

Are you looking for fresh, inspiring ideas to help your village hall thrive financially? Join Scottish Rural Action for "Thriving Village Halls: Inspiring Income Ideas" in three weeks' time – a lunchtime event packed with real success stories, creative funding strategies, and an exciting announcement from Social Enterprise Scotland!

Neil tragically took his life in June 2024 at the age of 60 and his wife, Caroline, and their three children, Victoria, Emily, and Charlie, along with family and friends, are preparing to come together almost exactly a year later to complete this endurance challenge.

Scotland’s leading nature conservation charity has announced its largest ever land acquisition after securing the 7,618-hectare Inverbroom Estate in the Scottish Highlands.

Repurposing publicly-owned land for farming will be a key issue considered at a forthcoming summit about attracting new people into agriculture.

Agriculture and Connectivity Minister Jim Fairlie visited Suzanne and Andrew Jardine, who are tenants of the 123 hectare Newfarm on the Applegirth Estate near Moffat, which is managed by Crown Estate Scotland.

Have Your Say: DTAS Consultation on Community Benefit Funds

DTAS invites all Full and Provisional members to an engaging online event to share your views on the Scottish Government’s Community Benefits from Net Zero Energy Developments Consultation.

Community benefits from renewables: give us your views!

Have Your Say on Community Benefits from Renewables!

Scotland’s commercial renewable energy projects can bring community benefit funds—but are they fair? The Scottish Government is updating its guidance, with a consultation open, and your input is needed.

Woodland Habitat Impact Assessment (WHIALite) Workshop – Tayvallich

Known as ‘WHIA Lite’ this method has been developed to stand separately to the full Woodland Habitat Impact Assessment (WHIA) methodology found in the woodland grazing toolbox on the Scottish Forestry website.

2025 Scottish WHIALite Programme Learn a methodology for assessing the impacts of grazing herbivores on woodland habitat.

Calling stakeholders in Perth and Kinross, Angus and Fife!

A survey has been launched by Bioregioning Tayside to help them map community food growing in Tayside in a publicly accessible way.

Scotland’s Rural College (SRUC) will lead a review of three core elements of the Scottish Government’s existing funding and policy support for rural and island communities: Community Led Local Development (CLLD), Scottish Rural Action (SRA) and the Scottish Rural Network (SRN).  

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