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Helping it Happen Awards celebrates the best of rural Scotland

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Last night saw more than 200 business owners and industry leaders from across the rural sector join together at the Balmoral Hotel in Edinburgh for an inspiring evening celebrating rural success at...

Strathard Community Engagement

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At the heart of the Strathard community engagement is the ecosystem approach and working with the community to achieve it. The main aim of the ecosystem approach is to identify land management...

Cullisse Scottish Highland Rapeseed Oil

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The Mackenzie family have been running Cullisse Farms since the 1920s, where they began farming oats, barely and cattle. The farm slowly passed through the generations, until Kenneth and Gregor...

Hands-On Learning

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Murton Trust is a special place. These days it’s a thriving nature reserve, visitor farm and tearoom, but the 100 acre site near Forfar in Angus was formerly a quarry until the Trust was established...

Maintaining a vital rural service

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Caledonian Marts Ltd operates from the auction mart centre at Millhall, Stirling. The company carries on the long tradition of livestock sales in the area, stretching back to the heyday of the drovers...

St Andrews Country Lodges & Cuplahills Farm

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In 2012 Stephen & Amanda, the third generation to farm at Cuplahills Farm, embarked on a special journey that began with a hay meadow and was to become the tranquil idyll that is now synonymous with...

Helping it Happen on Fair Isle

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The National Trust for Scotland (Trust) have worked in partnership with islanders on Fair Isle since the mid-1950s.

Many of these years saw the Trust working closely with Shetland grant providers and...

Diversifying community income

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Mar Estate undeniably has had an influence on the economic past and future of its local Braemar community. A platform to economic opportunity and diversification of income, historically, presently...

Community Engagement at Invercauld Estate

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The unique highland setting of Braemar village has flourished under a combination of extensive local estate involvement and community cohesion. As a local landowner, Invercauld Estate recognises the...

Facilitating Development

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Running Monymusk for the past 39 years, Sir Archie Grant is conscious of the role he plays in moulding the sustainability of the local community. “You want the community to develop gradually over time...

Working with local schools (AGMG)

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The Angus Glens Moorland Group is a collection of sporting estates Angus founded in 2015. They demonstrate the work these estates and their staff undertake undertake for our countryside, highlighting...

Earlston paths project

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A £17,000 initiative to improve paths alongside the Leader Water and provide more information for walkers about the Borders' wildlife and history has been unveiled. The two-year project by Earlson...