Roots to Resilience: Building on Success
There are two workshop sessions on Friday 30 May.
You can read through your options in the tabs below. Once you have reviewed the choices, please register for one workshop in each session.
Due to capacity caps, we recommend registering early for workshops, as they may fill up.
If you have any questions, please contact Meg.
Navigating Complexity – Community Projects and Planning (SESSION A ONLY)
This session explores how communities work through complex projects. This workshop will feature short presentations from Arisaig Community Trust and the Isle of Gigha Heritage Trust – two communities that have successfully navigated the planning system. They will talk about facing infrastructure challenges and working with councils and planners. In the second half of the workshop, delegates will then have a chance to share their own experiences and ask questions.
Navigating Complexity – Community Projects and Planning
Strategic planning for community landowners (Session A only)
Community landowners must run profitable businesses and earn income in order to meet their aspirations and needs. A Strategic Plan can help communities explain what they want to achieve and how they will do it. In this workshop, delegates will explore long-term strategic planning from a community-led perspective. Led by James Hilder, a Director of the Sunart Community Company and former CEO of Mull and Iona Community Trust.
Strategic planning for communities
Campaigning for Good - Members only
Want to make sure Scotland’s land reform policies work for your community? This workshop will give you tools to advocate for the positive change, from Community Wealth Building to the Community Wealth Fund and beyond. Learn how to shape the conversation and engage with policy-makers. We want to make sure that new policies deliver real benefits for your community.
Campaigning for Good - Members only
Roundtable workshop: Refiring our ambitions
Building on the Claiming Our Future panel discussion, this interactive session will spark fresh ideas and bold strategies for the future of community ownership. Through roundtable discussions, we’ll explore the actions, policies, and innovations needed to reclaim the ambition of the 1990s. Join us to reflect, challenge, and shape what comes next.
Roundtable workshop: Refiring our ambition
West Coast Community Energy Ltd - A collaborative negotiation case study (SESSION b ONLY)
Three community landowners have joined together to create West Coast Community Energy Ltd. This company will build a new community-owned wind farm on the Isle of Lewis. After the wind farm is finished, the money earned from the turbines will be shared among the three communities. This will help support social programs in those areas. In this workshop, delegates will hear from Urras Oighreachd Ghabhsainn (Galson Estate Trust), Urras Oighreachd Bharabhais (Barvas Estate Trust), and Urras Oighreachd Chàrlabhaigh (Carloway Estate Trust) about how they worked together to make this project happen.
Collaborative Negotiation case study
Campaigning for Good - Members only
Want to make sure Scotland’s land reform policies work for your community? This workshop will give you tools to advocate for the positive change, from Community Wealth Building to the Community Wealth Fund and beyond. Learn how to shape the conversation and engage with policy-makers. We want to make sure that new policies deliver real benefits for your community.
Campaigning for Good - Members only
Roundtable workshop: Refiring our ambitions
Building on the Claiming Our Future panel discussion, this interactive session will spark fresh ideas and bold strategies for the future of community ownership. Through roundtable discussions, we’ll explore the actions, policies, and innovations needed to reclaim the ambition of the 1990s. Join us to reflect, challenge, and shape what comes next.
Roundtable workshop: Refiring our ambition
Archiving as Activism (Session B only)
Archiving can serve as a form of resistance and resilience. It can help communities maintain control over their stories, heritage and connection to place. Using two examples from the Isle of Skye, we will explore how preserving cultural and historical records can empower communities. Catherine MacPhee from HighLife Highland’s Archive will discuss the importance of archiving local history in the context of Skye’s historical land activism. Musician Anne Martin will share how her music helps to preserve the north of Skye’s cultural heritage.