Scottish Land Fund

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.

Crofters on Great Bernera in the Outer Hebrides are set to own their island after the Scottish Land Fund agreed to put forward £100,000 to complete the purchase. The community buy-out by the Great Bernera Community Development Trust, which was overwhelmingly approved by locals in March, can now go