Rural services
Run by arts charity Creative Lives, the Creative Lives Awards celebrate the remarkable impact local volunteer-led creative groups across the UK and Ireland have on their communities.
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The Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust (GWCT) Scottish Game Fair (SGF) is back for 2024, celebrating its 35-year anniversary at Scone Palace.
Tickets are now on sale for the event, which will take place from Friday 5 to Sunday 7 July at Perthshire’s heritage location, set in parkland alongside the River Tay.
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Aviemore and Glenmore Community Trust (AGCT) is to take over the Glenmore Visitor Centre and Car Park after a successful application to Forestry and Land Scotland’s (FLS) Community Asset Transfer Scheme (CATS).
The scheme empowers community organisations to ask to take over publicly owned land or buildings that they feel they can make better use of for local people.
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Atlantic salmon is often referred to as the King of Fish, reflecting its important role in Scotland both culturally and economically with angling making a key contribution to many rural areas.
- Read more about Progress of the Wild Salmon Strategy and Implementation Plan
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The Scottish Invasive Species Initiative – the largest invasive non-native species control project in the British Isles - has been tackling non-native invasive species in northern Scotland since 2018.
- Read more about Call for volunteers to tackle invasive American mink in northern Scotland
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The deluge of wet weather throughout Scotland this winter and the start of spring is having adverse effects on the agricultural sector. With a wetter than average spring come issues with lambing, calving, flooding and general farm management.