Tags - Education and skills

Hopetoun Estate is providing young students with the opportunity to put learning into practice as part of the Estate’s outreach programme that aims to support ‘hands on’ learning in outdoor spaces.

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At Hopetoun they recognise the significant responsibility, influence and opportunities they have to affect the wildlife, natural resources and landscape across a large area of West Lothian. The Estate...

Since autumn 2011, Dunecht Estates have been actively involved with the Forest School Initiative, a programme to help children and young people develop confidence and self-esteem through hands on...

Providing opportunities to ensure important rural skills can be passed on to the next generation lies at the heart of operations at the MacRobert Trust. One of the principle aims of the Trust is to...

In June 2013 Ballogie Estate co-owner Malcolm Nicol leased the old walled garden on the estate to The Seed Box, a newly established social enterprise.

The Seed Box is the brain child of Belinda...

Where driving is concerned, younger really is better ……

Over the 3rd weekend in May, sixty eight 11-17 year olds in Scotland got behind the wheel of a car well before reaching legal driving age...

Ballater suffered its worst flooding for a century in early 2016, and it will be some time yet, we write in May 2016, before its homes and businesses return to a fully functional condition.

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Once again the beautiful gardens of Kimmerghame House, Duns, Berwickshire opened to the public on Sunday 29th May, raising funds for Swinton & Fogo Kirks.

Kimmerghame House (postcode TD11 3LU) is...

Wildlife Estates Scotland (WES) accredited Greenlawdean Farm, located just to the north of Greenlaw village in Berwickshire, extends to 426 hectares of arable ground, woodland and pasture. Arable...

The Scottish Wildcat is one of our most endangered native species. We currently have no reliable estimates for the numbers of wildcats remaining in the wild, but they are highly endangered. To reverse...

Several Estates in the Wester Ross Fisheries Trust (WRFT) banded together to celebrate the opening of the 2016 Salmon fishing season at the Bridge pool on the River Broom near Ullapool. Inverlael...

After renovating Gordon Castle and cottages, Angus and Zara Gordon Lennox’s attention turned to the Gordon Castle Walled Garden, probably the largest productive kitchen garden in the country.

The aim...