Youth

The Scottish Agritourism Conference 2024 will take place at Perth Concert Hall on Monday 18th and Tuesday 19th November 2024.

The conference is an annual celebration of the agritourism sector, open to anyone with an interest in growing agritourism in Scotland including Scottish Agritourism members, farmers considering agritourism, economic development agencies, destination marketing organisations, local and national government representatives, suppliers to the sector and sector supporters.

The National Centre for Remote & Rural Health & Care is delivering a series of online remote and rural learning events available from October 2024. 

Becoming the first Scottish education provider in almost two decades to be granted degree-awarding powers is a truly historic moment for SRUC.

SRUC’s degrees have previously been awarded through the Universities of Glasgow and Edinburgh but, from today (Monday 14 October), SRUC can award taught higher education qualifications, including degrees and taught Masters itself.

New funding for critical infrastructure projects that will help boost employment, empower communities and ensure a sustainable future for Scotland's island communities has been announced by First Minister John Swinney.

Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) Perth & Kinross has announce a new sponsorship deal by Scottish law firm, Gillespie Macandrew through the support of its Early Years Farm Resource Box initiative.

The partnership aims to enrich early agricultural education for young people across Scotland.

The Scottish Association of Young Farmers Clubs (SAYFC) has announce the launch of an ambitious fundraising campaign aimed at raising £1 million for a new state-of-the-art building at the Royal Highland Centre.

A national campaign to support young people to safely navigate social media and prevent violence has been launched.

‘Quit Fighting For Likes’ aims to get young people to think about and discuss attitudes and behaviours around the filming and sharing of violent incidents.

The Forth Valley & Lomond (FVL) Youth Local Action Group (YLAG) is now running their inaugural Youth Impact Fund.

It is a Fund run by young people, for young people, with funding from the Scottish Government.

This year, FVL YLAG is responsible for a fund of around £15,000, with the purpose of empowering and supporting young people in their living, learning, and working, within the rural area of Forth Valley & Lomond.

New guidance to empower schools to take action on mobile phone use and next steps in ongoing work to improve relationships and behaviour in schools has been published.

The ‘Behaviour and Relationships in Schools’ action plan, and targeted guidance for teachers to manage mobile phone use in schools, set out steps to be deployed at the national, local and school level over the next three years in response to concerns about relationships and behaviour in schools, including:

Scottish Rural Action (SRA) are recuiting!