Rural services

Views are being sought on the introduction of the Pension Age Winter Heating Payment, a new benefit to replace the UK Government’s Winter Fuel Payment in Scotland.

The Scottish Government has previously committed to delivering the new payment on a like-for-like basis with the existing benefit. It will help more than a million pensioners with heating costs in the winter.

Meet Our Expert: Business Adviser

We are Central Scotland’s Business Support Organisation and for the last 30 years we've been ‘Keeping it Central’…By providing a unique business ecosystem where businesses can start, grow, and scale in a supportive, innovative and sustainable environment, all whilst investing 100% of what we generate into activity designed to grow the local economy.Because if Central Scotland is successful, so are we.

VirtRural Careers 2023

The aim of this event is to raise awareness and increase knowledge of the careers available in Scotland’s land-based, aquaculture and environmental conservation sector. The event is open to anyone interested in finding out more about careers in our sector, whether that be career influencers, students, parents or career changers.

Exploring Peer Support Network in Moray - In Person and Online

Do you use your personal life experiences in supporting another person? Are you providing support to another person by drawing on your own lived experience of the same thing? Perhaps you run a support group, provide one to one support, or offer peer-support in another way.

The Wolfson Foundation have announced that their ‘Funding for Places’ grants will be open from 20 November - 5 January (for decisions in June). The programme provides support for places and are for capital initiatives, i.e. buildings (new build or refurbishment) and equipment.

The Wolfson Foundation is an independent grant-making charity, based in central London but funding across the UK.

Farmers in North Ayrshire, West Aberdeenshire and Orkney will have the opportunity to benefit from free business support, worth around £120,000, via the 2023/24 Farm Resilience Programme which starts this month.

National Rural Mental Health Forum Seminar

The National Rural Mental Health Forum is a strong dedicated network of over 230 organisations from third, private and public sectors, with an outreach to over 500,000 people in rural Scotland.

Nominations for Lantra Scotland’s 2024 ALBAS (Awards for Land-based and Aquaculture Skills) - which highlight the talents of people and organisations involved in the land-based and aquaculture sector - are now open.

A team of researchers led by The James Hutton Institute (JHI) in Aberdeen is hunting for volunteers to help them investigate what helps or hinders rural life in Scotland.

JHI is research institute located in Aberdeen and Dundee which focuses on the sustainable management of land, crops and natural resources for supporting thriving communities.

 

Today see the publication of the report, 'Community Ownership in Scotland 2022'. The Annual publication shows the extent of community ownership across Scotland.

This publication reports the number of assets in community ownership which are recorded by the Scottish Government. There are several initiatives which have been put in place to enable community ownership. 

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