Our sponsors
NatureScot - Headline Sponsor;
Enhancing Our Environment through Land Management Award sponsor
NatureScot is Scotland’s nature agency. We work to improve our natural environment in Scotland and inspire everyone to care more about it. So that all nature in Scotland – our key habitats and landscapes, all our green space and our native species – is maintained, enhanced and brings us benefits. It is the job of all of us to achieve a balance in the sensitive management of our natural world in order to maintain and enhance biodiversity.
Web: www.nature.scot
The Royal Countryside Fund - Rural Champion Award sponsor 
The Royal Countryside Fund (RCF) has been working to empower rural communities since 2010, working across the whole of the UK to create a thriving countryside. The new Rural Champion Award will celebrate an individual who embodies this ambition, and who has made a significant, lasting impact on their rural community. More information about the award, and how to nominate, is available on the RCF website.
Web: www.royalcountrysidefund.org.uk
Bidwells - Rural Property Award sponsor
Bidwells manages over 1 million acres of the Scottish and English countryside and coastline. Our decades of land and property expertise means we’re uniquely positioned to play a leading role in the emerging natural capital markets and bring exciting new opportunities to landowners and investors, advising on sustainable development and carbon positive prospects. Our 500-strong team manages over £5.2bn in property assets for national and international investors. Covering the length and breadth of the UK, we work with some of the country’s biggest landowners and in Scotland we specialise in the areas of rural professional services, forestry, renewables, grid and infrastructure, planning, strategic development (inc marine) and property sales and acquisition as well as natural capital and sustainable investment opportunities..
Contact
Tel: 01738 630666
Email: info@bidwells.co.uk
Web: www.bidwells.co.uk
Terra Magna - Education Award sponsor
Terra Magna Ltd is a Perth based Land Agency working nationwide providing specialist land and property advice. The team provides consultancy advice on a wide range of land related matters to numerous farms and diversified rural estates and are committed to providing a personal, bespoke and high-quality service to a wide range of clientele.
Terra Magna can advise on projects including negotiations of wayleaves/servitudes, renewables, leases, sales, acquisitions, and compulsory purchase as well as rural property management and strategic estate advice.
Contact
Tel: 07786 169395
Web: terramagna.land
EQ - Innovation in Farming Award sponsor
EQ is a modern, energetic accounting, taxation, and business advisory practice. They aim to inspire; support and encourage you to consider your vision and realise your ambitions.
Their understanding of business coupled with their dynamic financial expertise gives them the power to see beyond the numbers and provide the optimum solution to your requirements.
Contact
Tel: 0131 3577960
Web: eqaccountants.co.uk
Levy & Mcrae - Conservation Award sponsor
Levy & McRae are one of the leading litigation firms in Scotland. They act for many SLE members and are standing representatives to many of the sporting associations and bodies throughout the UK. They specialise in advising landowners, factors and gamekeepers on all aspects of countryside pursuits and have advised many hundreds of landowners on the implications of vicarious liability since its introduction 4 years ago. David McKie is the point of contact for advice on all aspects of members’ concerns.
Contact
Tel: 0141 307 2323
Web: lemac.co.uk
The Exiteers - Working with Communities Award sponsor
With over 70 years of combined experience, Phil Morris and Peter Wright - The Exiteers - understand the challenges of growing, evolving, or exiting a business. They’ve successfully navigated those journeys themselves and now focus on helping others achieve tangible results through action, collaboration and tailored solutions. Whether through hands-on consultancy, strategic investment, business transfer facilitation, or their specialist Vendor Initiated Management Buy Out (VIMBO) process, The Exiteers support owners at every stage - from growth to retirement. Passionate about sustaining and strengthening real British businesses, they work across manufacturing, retail, renewables, plant hire and agriculture. As proud sponsors of the Working with Communities Award, they celebrate those who, like them, believe in building lasting value and positive impact.
Contact
Email: info@theexiteers.co.uk
Web: www.theexiteers.co.uk
GLM - Tourism and Visitor Management Award sponsor
Respecting our past, building our future.
We specialise in the creation, reuse and adaptation of buildings and land where we bring to bear our sharp insight, imaginative design and effective implementation, ensuring the projects we work on stand proud and will stand the test of time. And, if we can do this with the lightest touch, doing more with less, then all the better!
Our ability to appraise, design, construct, manage and operate sets us apart in the market giving clients a unique opportunity to engage with a professional adviser and facilitator who understands the challenges beyond the building.
Contact
Tel: 0131 225 4235
Web: www.weareglm.com
Murray Beith Murray - Iver Salvesen Award for Combatting Climate Change sponsor
Murray Beith Murray is a multi-disciplinary private client practice and rural property work has been at the core of our business for over 170 years.
Headquartered in Edinburgh, we provide seamless legal, tax and property advice to landowners, farmers and conservationists. Our expertise includes wealth management for landowners; agriculture and rural property acquisitions and disposals, including farms, estates, forests and salmon fisheries; rural land planning and development; land diversification and renewables projects such as wind, solar and hydro schemes; and sporting rights and leases.
Contact
Tel: 0131 225 1200
Email: mbm@murraybeith.co.uk
Web: www.murraybeith.co.uk
Shepherd and Wedderburn LLP - Rural Business Award sponsor
Shepherd and Wedderburn is a leading Scottish-headquartered UK law firm and the only full-service, independent Scottish legal practice of scale with a London office. Establishing long-standing relationships of trust, rooted in legal advice and client service of the highest quality, is our hallmark.
Our market-leading rural team advises across the full range of farming and land management issues, sharing our clients’ passion for rural business development and land and countryside management. We make it our business to understand our clients’ needs and the challenges they face, now and in the future, allowing us to provide high-quality advice to consistently deliver successful outcomes.
Contact
Tel (Edinburgh office): +44 (0)131 228 9900
Email: info@shepwedd.com
Web: www.shepwedd.com
Scottish Woodlands - Rural Rising Star Award Sponsor
Scottish Woodlands Ltd is a forestry management consultancy and contracting organisation providing specialist forestry, estate and land management services throughout the UK and Republic of Ireland.
Trading for over 50 years and with an annual turnover in excess of £100M, client services are provided from a network of twenty branch offices, located in the main forest growing areas of the UK. Our range of services includes new woodland creation, independent timber harvesting and marketing, forestry management and maintenance services, property investment, utility contracting, landscaping, carbon sequestration and ancillary forestry support services such as woodland insurance, forest certification and digital mapping.
Our forestry operations include the supply of 1.2M tonnes of roundwood for the UK forest industry, approximately 300,000ha of managed forestry area across the UK and approximately 25% of private sector new woodland creation activity in Scotland.
The business is largely employee-owned and, having grown out of a forestry owner’s cooperative established over a century ago, the company remains committed to providing efficient, independent and industry leading services to a wide range of clients.
Contact
Tel: 0131 451 5154
Email: enquiries@scottishwoodlands.co.uk
Media House - Good News Award
Media House is a full-service strategic communications agency, specialising in public relations, public affairs and crisis management.
Our combination of insight and experience means Media House is also equipped to offer clients a range of additional services such as political and business analysis, litigation support, reputation management, media relations and digital communications.
Media House has over many years built a large portfolio of clients in the rural sector and continues to serve the needs of trade associations, estate businesses and families across the UK.
Contact
Tel: 0141 220 6040