Rural services

Lothian WiA: 2025 Changes to Subsidy Conditions

Join the Lothians women in agriculture group and your local consultant Mary-Jane Lawrie, at Carfrae Farm Shop to hear about the proposed changes to farm subsidies, and what you will have to do in order claim your Basic Payment Scheme from next year.

Borders WiA: Driving Your Business Forward

With lots of changes and uncertainty there is an opportunity to focus on driving your business forward, so put on your business cap as we will be joined by South of Scotland Enterprise. Come along and hear from Lucy Filby, Head of Net Zero Transition for Agriculture.

Farm Wildlife Walks – Campbeltown

Two years ago the Farm Advisory Service launched the Farm Wildlife Walks initiative, an attempt to promote grass-roots conversations around nature conservation and the positive impacts of nature-friendly farming practices in combating the biodiversity crisis.

Scottish businesses have been awarded grants to help grow their innovative energy-saving projects in a new round of Scottish Government funding totalling £7.2 million.

The Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF) supports projects that aim to reduce carbon emissions that are created during energy-intensive manufacturing processes.

2024 marks 26 years of the SURF Awards programme, which celebrates best practice examples of community regeneration projects.

The SURF Awards for Best Practice in Community Regeneration are organised and delivered by SURF in partnership with the Scottish Government with additional support from Creative Scotland, Scotland’s Towns Partnership, and Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA).

The purpose of the SURF Awards is:

The clean heat market is a rapidly expanding sector and Scottish Enterprise are making support available to help companies take advantage of the opportunities it presents. 

Understanding and improving your online presence

This online learning event - "Understanding and improving your online presence" is FREE to access! 

Marketing expert, Lesley Wood will demonstrate how using google analytics can provide valuable data to enhance understanding of business performance using current business examples. Lesley will show us how you can use this information to target marketing activity.

2-3pm - Input from Lesley

Scottish Land Commission public meeting

The Scottish Land Commission is hosting a public meeting in Thurso, designed to encourage local residents to have their say on issues affecting land ownership and use in the area. Taking place on Monday 2 September at 7.00pm at the Pentland Hotel, the free event is open to anyone with an interest in the way land is owned and used across the community.

Rural SEN - Tackling Depopulation in Rural Communities

Join the online event on 17 September from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM for an in-depth discussion on tackling depopulation in rural areas. Key speakers will share their expertise and innovative solutions to help sustain and revitalise our rural communities.
 

This free event is open to all, and the organisers warmly invite everyone interested to register and join them!

Keep Scotland Beautiful's National Conversations: heritage and place

Join Keep Scotland Beautiful (KSB) at this one-hour online event to hear from inspiring individuals and organisations taking action to improve places and restore our heritage.

The event will take place via MS Teams and we will have a panel of speakers representing communities and organisations working hard to keep Scotland beautiful.

The event will be chaired bytheir Chief Executive Barry Fisher.

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