Business Directory

Highland Heritage Woodworks (“HHW”) is an innovative Scottish master carpentry and sawmill business whose mission is to add real, long-term value to home-grown timber whilst providing high-quality, rural-based craft jobs. HHW’s narrative is defined as ‘Forest to Front Door’ which describes the unique characteristics of the business that allows it to source it’s raw materials from the forest and turn them into exceptional, quality outputs utilising the skillset of the team. Based on the Dunecht Estate in Aberdeenshire, the company, which was setup in 2021, creates a varied suite of products including structurally graded timber for buildings, exterior cladding, technologically advanced engineered timber, boardwalks, high-end cabins and lots more besides. These products are produced with a strong focus on durability, traceability, provenance and keeping value within the rural Scottish economy and it’s all done with a wry smile and a sharp focus on sustainability. What sets Highland Heritage apart is their vertically integrated approach. Timber is sourced from Scottish forests they know and trust, processed on their renewable-energy electric sawmill, dried in a biomass kiln fuelled by their own wood waste, and finished using high-precision modern machinery designed for consistency at scale. This allows them to supply high-performance timber solutions that compete directly with imported materials, while offering landowners and estates a far more resilient, local supply alternative. Alongside commercial projects, Highland Heritage is increasingly involved in estate infrastructure, rural buildings, and demonstrator projects that show how Scottish timber can be used confidently, beautifully and responsibly in modern construction. At a time when estates are under pressure to balance commercial return, environmental responsibility and long-term land stewardship, Highland Heritage Woodworks offers a practical model for how Scottish timber can support all three. Their work speaks directly to issues around local supply chains, rural employment, woodland management and the future role of domestic timber in the built environment. Member benefits: An exclusive offer to SLE members of a free consultation to share our experience of understanding your timber resource, the suitability of different timbers for estate projects, opportunities for land diversification including high end holiday accommodation and innovative ways to undertake renovations of estate buildings.

Highland Joinery & Glazing offers over three decades of experience in both architectural joinery and traditional glazing. Our team of craftsmen use traditional techniques with modern equipment, to create heritage inspired timber products that perform to modern standards for trade and private customers, across Scotland.

We are a new but experienced firm of Chartered Surveyors and Valuers providing a wide range of services across the rural spectrum. Within our team, we have particularly strong experience enabling renewable energy and general development (including matching sites with developers), managing CPO and utilities projects and with rural property valuation, estate and land management, farm advisory and landlord and tenant work. We are based in the Highlands of Scotland but work across Scotland, and aim to provide a professional and approachable service, offering excellent value for money to owners and occupiers of rural property.

Sizzling spit roasts for every occasion. We are famous for our crisp, golden crackling and succulent pork. Our pigs and lambs are locally bred. A sizzling, turning roast is an attraction at any function. Our machines are designed to work inside or outside with no smoke and just a hint of the delicious meal to come. We spit roast for all occasions and we would be delighted to roast a pig or a lamb for you. Martin & Jenny Robb Carroglen, Comrie, Perthshire, PH6 2LY. Crackling is our speciality.

Highlands Rewilding aims to make natural capital work economically on our two estates, and we want to help others do the same by offering a win-win holistic data acquisition-and-analysis service. We measure our own carbon and biodiversity - in detail, in multiple habitats, using multiple techniques. We have a world-class science team of our own, and also work with the top natural capital measurement contractors and universities in the field. We have the expertise to measure carbon and biodiversity for other landowners, and make recommendations for land management changes based on our fast-growing data collection and optimisation capabilities. Our idea is to pay most of the costs of data acquisition on clients’ land with clients paying only a small contribution. As a reward for our investment and risk taking on clients behalf, we would receive a small share of any eventual natural capital revenues. Please contact Jeremy.leggett@highlandsrewilding.co.uk for further details

HES is the lead public body established to investigate, care for and promote Scotland’s historic environment We’re a non-governmental public body with charitable status and are responsible for 336 properties of national importance. Buildings and land in our care include Edinburgh Castle, Skara Brae and Fort George, and numerous smaller sites across Scotland, attracting more than 5 million visitors per year. We’re also responsible for internationally significant collections, along with 20 million aerial images of locations across the world. HES invests significantly into national and local organisations supporting building repairs, ancient monuments and archaeological work. Our Conservation experts provide guidance, training and technical research into Scotland’s built environment, and HES contributes to the Scottish Government Strategy to tackle climate change and reduce Scotland’s carbon footprint.

With over 50 years experience advising businesses, with expertise not only in the Scottish Borders but throughout Scotland and strong links to all other professional services, the team at Hogg & Thorburn are in a unique position to help. Landowners, farmers, hotels, builders, architects, shopkeepers and many others have all seen the positive results that Hogg & Thorburn can bring. Sole traders, partnerships and limited companies all benefit from our advice. No matter what you do, on what scale, we can assist you.

Hopetoun is a place of outstanding natural beauty, which has Scotland’s finest stately home at its heart. Situated on the outskirts of Edinburgh, Hopetoun is a welcoming and thriving 6,500 acre community with a great deal to offer for living, leisure, entertainment and business all the year round. The fabulous setting of built and rural heritage provides a unique day out and a magnificent location and venue for hospitality, weddings and outdoor activities including clay pigeon shooting.

We are specialist regulatory lawyers with experience in wildlife crime prosecutions, land management, environmental law, animal welfare and transport law. We are on hand 24/7 to assist our clients including landowners, estate managers, gamekeepers in connection with a wide range of issues requiring legal advice. SLE members receive a 10 per discount on legal fees.