📣Great news for crofting in Barra!📣
Non-resident tenant assigns croft to their new entrant son, securing the future of the croft! #SuccessStory #NewEntrants #crofting #barra

Save the date! London's first Land Justice Fair, Sunday 21st July at Myatt's Field Park. Join us for stalls, workshops, food and music! Celebrating land struggles and successes, building a London land justice network and having fun!

Ahead of our report launch on Thursday our Head of Family Support spoke to STV News about the importance of families being able to visit loved ones in prison. Families are making sacrifices to be able to visit & barriers need to be removed to better support contact #NoEasyJourney

We've the right to walk on most land in Scotland, provided we're responsible. But we still need good paths to link communities, give confidence & improve accessibility.🗺️

👇🏽Learn how paths work in Scotland: ramblers.org.uk/what-we-care-a…

sportscotland RamblersGB #SportAcrossScotland

A short flyover for anyone interested in what some Hebridean crofts look like (mixing work and pleasure at my Mum's home village) - while the wind allows it!

(If I was a bit younger and not about to retire, this would be) a dream job at the #Cairngorms NP!
Vacancy: Outdoor Access Officer SOAN

On Thursday, all 5 UK NPM Chairs past and present will be in the same room to share their perspective on the last 15 years, the challenges and achievements experienced as a National Preventive Mechanism since the UK ratified #OPCAT in 2009

nationalpreventivemechanism.org.uk/news/blog-addr…

#UKNPM15

Looking forward to speaking at this event tomorrow on the role of land reform in delivering a wellbeing economy

6pm at the Scottish Parliament - or join online:

'This was a well-loved building in the village so we wanted it to be something the community would be proud of, and that they could feel they could come in and make it their own and do their own thing' OLD SCHOOL THORNHILL bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

📣 Hamish Trench will be part of a panel sharing expert insight into how the Land Reform Bill can help build a Wellbeing Economy in Scotland at the latest meeting of the Cross Party Group on April 23rd.

Join the session online or in person 👉 tickettailor.com/events/wellbei…

The huge unsatisfied demand for crofts, smallholdings and allotments across Scotland speaks for itself. We want to be a 'Good Food Nation'. Let's do it...

TODAY 2-5pm 🌊

“The right to roam comes with responsibilities… the campaign is calling for a similar open-access model to that in Scotland.”

Great piece by Matt Rudd about Right to Roam in today’s Sunday Times - featuring Wild Service, Jon Moses & yours truly! thetimes.co.uk/article/my-day…

After a decade or more of decay and being fenced off, Inverary pier has been re-opened by a vigorous community group. The local pipe band kicked off the celebrations. And the sun shined on Bonnie Argyll.

With the popularity of the LEJOG and NC500 - local commuters can find it hard to get bike spaces in summer - these routes need more bike spaces #connectedcycling

Crofting tenure has helped sustain vibrant communities in the Highlands and Islands for over a century. 'Lotting' builds on that logic and experience. Progress....
scotsman.com/news/environme…

A review of the Land Reform Bill proposals - 'Dividing large landholdings into smaller parcels when they go on the market would help rural Scots build much-needed new homes and offer opportunities to keep young people in their local communities.'
scotsman.com/news/environme…

We need compulsory sales orders? We can't be having owners of signature buildings and land in our local places doing whatever they want. Ownership should never mean you can ignore wider place, community and economy.

Another illustration of why localised monopoly ownership of land and property is seldom in the public interest.
thetimes.co.uk/article/ee86bf…

We are delighted to be joined by UK NPM Chairs past & present at our Annual Conference in #Cardiff next week

Alongside Wendy Sinclair we will discuss changes in detention since UK ratified OPCAT in 2009 w/Dame Anne Owers, David Strang, Nick Hardwick & John Wadham
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