Community Land Scotland maintaining its reputation as the sunniest conference! Friday 18th May saw 100+ individuals, passionate about Community Land Ownership travel from all over the country to Stirling for the annual Community Land Scotland Conference. The theme of this year’s conference was “What can we learn from Community Land Owners?”. The answer predicted incontinue reading
Over the past couple of weeks, we’ve been busy getting out and having conversations with new contacts and having new conversations with old contacts. As you will be aware, Rural Housing Scotland recently announced that we will have a dedicated set of feet on the ground to cover the West Coast from Lochaber to Campbeltown.continue reading
Rural Housing Scotland visited the Island of Jura on Saturday 28th April to attend the Jura Development Trust’s Community Action Plan (CAP) event. That it had to be rescheduled due to some rather awful weather in March definitely ended up being a positive. We were treated to some unbelievable weather, the DT were able tocontinue reading
We’re keen to make ourselves as accessible as possible so that as many communities, individuals and organisations can approach us with any comments, questions, queries and proposals relating to affordable housing. However you want to contact us, just click on the relevant link below! Social Media: RHS Facebook | RHS Twitter | OIH Facebook |continue reading
Answer: From the 1st of April 2018 they will all have a Rural Housing Scotland Development Officer they can call on for advice and assistance should they consider investigating affordable housing in their communities. Through the Our Island Home project, RHS has been working with various island communities in Argyll and Highlands and we arecontinue reading
Afternoon All, Whilst I’m not under 3ft of snow like in other areas, it is still pretty darned cold so what better way to warm the cockles than getting stuck into this website administering show! Having never tried this before, it’s very much a case of learn as you go and so there *might* becontinue reading
23rd February was the date for our annual conference. The theme this year was Building Rural Futures. As per usual, the conference was held in Birnam (with the pre-conference evening reception being held at Dunkeld House Hotel). We were delighted to welcome around 100 delegates and speakers to discuss various subjects ranging from Island Proofingcontinue reading
Conference 2017 Booking Form (Word)
We have been organising seminars on the Rural Housing Fund. At the seminars, the Scottish Government provide information about it e.g. who is eligible to apply, how to apply, how much grant is available…. and Rural Housing Scotland give details on how communities in other parts of Scotland have delivered and developed their own projects.continue reading
Rural Housing Scotland and Our Island Home are very much looking forward to meeting lots of new people and catching up with old faces at the Scottish Rural Parliament in Brechin next week. We’re going to have a stall at the marketplace so please pop by and say hello 🙂 We will have lots ofcontinue reading