2024 Annual Conference

Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future

Fri 10 May – 13:00 – 17:30 (lunch available from 12:00 – 13:00)
Sat 11 May – 09:30 – 13:00 (lunch available from 13:00 – 14:00)

This year’s conference – Own Yersel Scotland: Reimagining the future – invites participants to imagine the future they want to see for community landownership and land reform in Scotland. Our members are world-leading, creative and hard-working, but the journey towards and beyond ownership can be full of unnecessary hurdles – and is particularly challenging at the moment due to a shrinking public sector and cost of living pressures. In this historic year for community ownership, we want to hear your ideas about creating a legislative, funding and policy environment that genuinely enables and achieves change.

The conference is split into two distinct parts. The first day will have a traditional conference structure, with opportunities to learn from other community landowners. On the second day, we’ll be looking at how we can create that supportive environment. Attendees will be able to pick their own sessions and build on all the conversations that have developed on the first day – from ideas raised at the plenary sessions and workshops, to the impromptu conversations that have happened over coffee or in passing.

Following these break-out sessions, delegates will reconvene for a plenary session which will tie together discussions over the two days and share the ideas and actions that delegates have developed. At the end of the conference, we plan to publish a declaration, which Community Land Scotland will use to create change in the policy and support environment.

Join the conversation on 10 & 11 May at the Perth Theatre and help rewrite the future of community ownership and land reform in Scotland.

Online registration is no longer available for this event. If you would like to attend, please contact Meg.