Business Directory

We put the countryside at the heart of our work. With seven offices located across Scotland, we provide a full range of professional services to landowners, farmers and rural businesses. Contact us about architecture, building surveying, compulsory purchase, estate and farm sales, farm and estate management, food and farming, forestry, natural capital, planning, rating, strategic land, valuations, succession planning, renewable energy and rural research. Our clients are committed to the countryside and so are we.

Scene & Herd PR and Marketing has the desire to see a Scotland full of rural enterprises which are seen, heard, respected and thriving. We use our range of skills to help rural businesses of all types achieve their own version of this powerful goal. We are a full-service marketing communications agency. This means that we are able to offer clients every service required to build and develop their brand and promote their business. This starts with the development of a physical brand and website and moves through to everything from marketing strategy, media relations and the creation of marketing materials to social media management, videography, podcasting/audio content, digital optimisation, skills training, sponsorship advice and more. Please do get in touch for a no obligation chat about how we could help your business to grow and thrive.

Scotmas is a Scottish specialist in advanced Chlorine Dioxide (ClO₂) water treatment and disinfection systems, supporting estates, farms, rural and leisure businesses with safe, sustainable water quality solutions. With over 30 years’ expertise, Scotmas delivers bespoke Chlorine Dioxide generation, dosing and monitoring technology to improve water hygiene, compliance and operational performance across rural and land-based enterprises.

Scottish fruit trees supplies Scotland’s finest fruit trees, soft fruit, nut trees and hedging , as well as providing a design service to people wanting to plant new orchards, or develop fruit growing businesses. We do a lot of training in orchard skills and supervising planting, and can help to prune and maintain existing and new orchards. . We work right across Scotland and have worked with many estates, farms, rural businesses , charities and local authorities to develop orchard and encourage fruit growing. Scottish Fruit trees specialises in Scottish heritage varieties of apple such as the Bloody Ploughman, Galloway Pippin, East Lothian pippin, and in keeping old varieties growing, as well as encouraging the planting of new orchards for the future.

SRUC exists to deliver comprehensive skills, education and business support to Scotland’s land-based industries, founded on world class and sector-leading research, education and consultancy. The integration of these three complementary ‘knowledge exchange’ services is of significant value to all with an interest in land-based activities – be they learners, businesses, communities or policy-makers. Strong in our heritage, SRUC will strive to lead the way in delivering economic, social and environmental benefits while providing a strong voice for our rural industries.

Scottish Woodlands Ltd provides a range of bespoke solutions aligned to clients’ objectives across Scotland/UK from a network of offices. Services include forestry and estate management, forestry investment advice and property acquisition, independent timber harvesting and marketing, renewable energy, and specialist contract services for the utilities and landscaping sectors. We offer standalone services for FSC and PEFC forest certification, digital mapping and woodland insurance. Scottish Woodlands’ origins go back over a century, being predominantly employee-owned for the last three decades.

Senus is a software company providing a Measurement, Reporting and Verification (MRV) platform for natural capital to any land-use industry (e.g. - Agriculture). Founded in 2017 as a spin out from the University of Galway, Ireland, our technology is now used in 16 countries with 1.7 million hectares under management on our platform. We provide software and services to agri advisors, estate managers, and farmers to help comply with Government Schemes or supply chain programmes. In Scotland we offer habitat and RAMS mapping through our platform, along with Geo Referencing enabled soil sampling software.

Recognised as market-leaders, our expert team of lawyers advises across all farming and land management issues as well as renewable energy and environmental issues. We also have specialist expertise in agricultural tenancies and a deep understanding of this highly regulated area of law, with unrivalled experienced in both contentious and non-contentious agricultural tenancy advice. A key strength is our Scottish Land Court Practice, and members of the team regularly represent landlords and tenants in a wide variety of disputes.

Shire Energy Services provide full turnkey services for Solar PV, Battery Storage and EV Chargers across Scotland and the wider UK market. Our head office is in Prestwick with a further office in Aberdeen where our project teams are based. For the last 10 years we have been designing, supplying, installing and commissioning mainly commercial based solar systems. The systems we build for you can be on the roof, the ground or on our car port systems. We are ISO, SELECT, MCS and RECC approved and have our own internal Quantity Surveyor, Project Manager, Purchasing Team, Designers and Admin to support our own inhouse delivery team of solar installers, electricians and roofers. We have partnerships with a number of funders, architects and planners to help enable your project to get off the ground. For all SLE members we will provide a FREE desktop analysis and design of a potential installation at your estate and present this as a full costs and returns proposal including financial payback and carbon saving calculations.