The three-year-long campaign to take Morvern Community Woodlands (MWC) into community ownership has boosted by a £1 million award from the Scottish Land Fund. MCW has now launched a campaign to raise the remaining £1.7m needed to enable it to buy the 6,000-acre K
Scottish Land Fund
The Scottish Land Fund has awarded the Langholm Initiative charity £1 million towards the purchase of 10,500 acres of Langholm Moor in the south of Scotland, which would see the local community creating a vast new nature reserve.
A total of £367,915 been awarded to two separate affordable housing projects on Orkney in the latest round of grants from the Scottish Land Fund.
A community development company has completed the purchase of land to provide affordable homes on the island of Colonsay.
The Udny Community Trust has been awarded £100,000 from the Scottish Land Fund to buy the disused Linsmohr Hotel with plans to convert it into a community centre. The hotel will be turned into a community cafe, with space for toddler and youth clubs as well as health and wellbei
New affordable homes and a site for new affordable business units are to be developed on Colonsay thanks to funding of £390,000 from the Scottish Land Fund.
Garnethill Multicultural Centre, Comann Eachdraidh Eirsgeidh (Eriskay Historical Society) and a housing project in Arisaid are set to benefit from receiving a share of £1.3 million of funding from the Scottish Land Fund.
Spire View Housing Association has announced the completion of works at the new, state of the art Roystonhill Community Hub.
Copperworks Housing Association has celebrated another significant milestone in the regeneration of its local community. Following several years of hard work and determination Copperworks, with the support of local residents and the Royston Strategy Group, finally acquired a large area of derelict l
A historic estate dating back to the 17th century is set to be bought by the community thanks to a grant from the Scottish Land Fund. The Douglas Support Estate at Viewpark in Lanarkshire occupies almost 160 acres of fields and woodland, bordered by the M8.
A Highlands residents association is one of four community groups to receive financial support from the Scottish Land Fund to transfer ownership of local projects to the hands of local people. Strathpeffer Residents Association has received £38,025 to purchase a four-acre site in Strathpeffer
Mull and Iona Community Trust (MICT), working with Ulva School Community Association (USCA), has secured a grant of £156,865.51 from the Scottish Land Fund to realise a second affordable housing project at Ulva Ferry on the Isle of Mull.
Kinning Park Complex SCIO celebrates the funding boost Community groups in Glasgow, North Lanarkshire and Stirling are set to take ownership of local land and buildings, following a significant funding boost from the Scottish Land Fund.
A Western Isles community has completed the purchase of its local estate for £85,000 in just one year. The Keose Glebe Steering Group announced at the weekend that it had bought the former church land on Lewis.
Aileen McLeod A £10 million annual fund to help communities buy the land they live and work on has been announced by the Scottish Government as the Land Reform Bill reaches its final stage of the parliamentary process.