Youth
Rural Economy Secretary Fergus Ewing has launched a new land matching service for the farming industry.
The Scottish Land Matching Service will initiate discussions between new entrants to farming and landowners. The service will provide unbiased guidance and support to both parties and is aimed at tackling the issues of an ageing farming population and lack of access to land for new entrants.
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Are you a young entrepreneur in rural Scotland? Want to improve your business skills?
If so, register for the Scottish Agricultural and Rural Youth Pre-Accelerator Programme Ignition event to be held on Tuesday 22 October at 10am at the Royal Highland Centre, Ingliston.
The Rural Youth Project has been awarded funding from five LEADER Local Action Groups across Scotland.
Support of £191,170 has been awarded by LEADER in Angus, Lanarkshire, Outer Hebrides, Rural Perth and Kinross, and the Scottish Borders.
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Funding is available to help develop and grow community-based youth work provision in rural areas of Scotland.
After a successful first year, the Youth Scotland Rural Action Fund is back for a second year, with support again from The Robertson Trust and joined this year by the Gannochy Trust.
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The Gatehouse Development Initiative has been working with Forestry and Land Scotland to develop apprentices’ dyking skills as part of an Erasmus+ project to transfer traditional rural skills.
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Pupils from Montrose Academy and Mearns Academy finished their school term learning all about sustainability and renewable energy.
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Over one hundred school pupils enjoyed a potato education day in Perthshire recently.
The event was organised by ADHB and the Royal Highland Education Trust (RHET) and was hosted by Bruce Farms in Perthshire as part of their Strategic Farm programme managed by AHDB.
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Almost 2000 pupiles have taken part in a project growing and harvesting their own potatoes.
This year, over 60 classes from across Perth and Kinross took part in the Mr Jazzy Potato Project, which shows the children the gradually unfolding story of the spud and how food and farming are linked.
Top of the crops in the 2019 competition and winning the cup was the P2/3 class from Abernethy Primary School who won the ‘Heaviest Crop of Potatoes’.
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First Minister Nicola Sturgeon has launched a food education programme for children and young people at the Royal Highland Show.
The Good Food Futures programme is backed by £1 million of investment and will teach children and young people about Scotland's food industry.
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