Angus Council

SCOTO is a network of community tourism enterprises located throughout Scotland and led by a team of dynamic individuals who each have extensive and varied experience in community tourism.

From January to March 2023, SCOTO is on tour to raise awareness of the scale and impact of community led tourism across Scotland.

The seventeenth annual Farming Scotland Conference will be held on Thursday 13^th February 2020 at the Carnoustie Golf Hotel.

The conference is once again sponsored and organised by EQ Chartered Accountants, Thorntons Law, Bell Ingram and RBS.

Join Soil Association Scotland for a day on the beautiful Rottal Estate in Angus to hear from some of Scotland’s foremost nature-friendly farmers, take part in practical group sessions and see the progress of landowner Dee Ward’s transformative work with nature.

JLM & The Connected Places Catapult are delighted to announce the return of the Rural Transport Convention, an event that brings together members of the public, private and third sectors from within and outside Scotland to discuss how we can collaboratively shape transport provision to meet the needs of rural communities and grow the rural economy.

Speakers include:

Jeremy Moody, Secretary & Adviser CAAV - Agriculture policy: Where are we now?

Mike Rivington, James Hutton Institute - Envisioning Scotland's future agriculture under climate change

Kirsty & Aimee Budge, Farmers, Countryfile's Farming Heroes 2018 - Women's work: our journey from sisters to business partners

Ben Pugh, Founder & CEO of Farmdrop - The ethical grocer: reworking the supply chain

www.farmingscotlandconference.co.uk

The next instalment of the Angus New Entrants group will be a workshop based on diversfificaion within a farm business.  With margins tight on farm it is an ideal time to think about other options for diversifying that will work alongside the main business.  This meeting is aimed at new entrants to farming who would like to know about where to start if considering diversification or how to develop an idea into a product.

As part of EventScotland’s ongoing programme of local learning and development opportunities we are pleased be working with Angus Council to deliver a FREE Engagement & Update session for Angus based event organisers on the afternoon of Thursday 29 November at the Royal Hotel, Forfar.

The Scottish Smallholder Festival is Scotland’s largest smallholder event, celebrating the best of Scottish smallholding, growing and craft.

Organised by smallholders, it is aimed at all those with an interest in the productive use of small land holdings.