Series of Peatland ACTION roadshows

Partnering with Peatland ACTION, Scottish Land & Estates will be running a series of Peatland Roadshows across Scotland between end November 2023 and March 2024. Peatland ACTION is a national programme to restore peatlands across Scotland for the many benefits

Find out about the finalists of the Helping it Happen Awards 2023 in their own words

For the last couple of years, we have asked finalists of the Helping it Happen Awards to provide us with a short video summarising their project, initiative, estate or business to be used during the ceremony. While this may seem like a daunting task at first

Photos from the Helping it Happen Awards 2023

Planning for the Helping it Happen Awards began in January, right at the start of the year. Over the following months a significant amount of determination, time and energy went into ensuring that the 7th annual celebration of the awards would go on to be the

Great Scottish Squirrel Survey 2023

The Great Scottish Squirrel Survey returns for its fifth year this autumn. Saving Scotland’s Red Squirrels – winner of the 2019 Conservation Award category in SLE’s Helping it Happen Awards – is calling on people all over Scotland to explore outdoors and look

Short-term lets…The reality facing Scotland

In this blog, our Policy Adviser (Access and Visitor Management), Simon Ovenden, shares his frustrations relating to the Scottish Government’s Short Term Lets (STL) licensing legislation and the potential damage awaiting not just the short-term lets sector in

My time as Communications Intern for Scottish Land & Estates

In this blog, our Communications Intern Allan MacAskill discusses his time with SLE. Allan outlines what he's gained from the opportunity and shares some of his personal highlights. My summer internship at Scottish Land & Estates has been nothing short of

My time as Policy Intern for Scottish Land & Estates

In this blog, our Policy Intern Alfred Drummond-Herdman discusses his time with SLE. Alfred outlines how the opportunity came to be and shares some of his personal highlights. Having come from a small estate in Perthshire, I have always held felt a deep

Thoughts ahead of the imminent 2023-24 Programme for Government statement

In this blog, our Press & Public Affairs Manager Simon Ritchie shares his hopes that the upcoming Programme for Government statement will highlight the Scottish Government's intentions to work with rural Scotland, rather than to create more barriers to

In the Face of Climate Change, Embrace Resilience: Why Scottish Farmers Must Seize the Opportunity of Policy Transition

SLE's Senior Policy Adviser for Agriculture and Climate Change, Eleanor Kay, explores some of the challenges and opportunities ahead for Scotland's farmers against a backdrop of a changing climate and evolving government policy. It remains frustrating to

Investment in land and nature restoration at Far Ralia

At the SLE Annual Conference earlier this year, one of our case study video segments examined the purchase of Far Ralia by abrdn Property Income Trust Limited in September 2021. In a new blog, Jason Baggaley, Investment Manager at abrdn, explains the decision