Case Studies

Barbara Grieve, our Research and Finance Officer, has been researching a few case studies across rural and island Scotland. Here she explores the concept of 20 minute neighbourhoods and how, if at all, it applies to the isle of Jura. '20 minute ...

Barbara Grieve, our Research and Finance Officer, has been researching a few case studies across rural and island Scotland. Here she explores tradition bearing and Gaelic. For a number of years now, there has been a growing grassroots movement to ...

Barbara Grieve, our Research and Finance Officer, has been researching a few case studies across rural and island Scotland. Here she looks at community wealth building and what it looks like in the Outer Hebrides. Over the last forty years, Uist, an ...

Barbara Grieve, our Research and Finance Officer, has been conducting interviews with various people across rural and island Scotland to pull together some case studies to showcase community wealth building. She writes: Community Transport can and ...

The Scottish Older People's Assembly is the latest member to join the Scottish Rural Action in March 2022! They told us a bit about their organisation: "We are delighted to join forces with the SRA and look forward to developing opportunities to work ...

We caught up with Emma, director of Argyll based Kintyre Gin, to find out about the business and how they’ve coped with the pandemic. Directors Emma and husband Niall are owners of the impressive Torrisdale Castle Estate which has been in the family ...

Scottish Rural Action's Youth Consultant, Innes Morgan, catches up with Holly Gillibrand - a 15 year old climate activist from the Highlands. BBC’s “Wanted Down Under” is that dependable, day-time television programme most of us have watched at some ...

Back in November, we caught up with Andrew Donaldson from Comrie Croft in rural Perthshire to find out about how he started the business, how the Croft has responded to Covid-19 and his hopes for the future. Comrie Croft is a 261-acre estate with ...

The Black Isle Partnership is the latest member of Scottish Rural Action and is a fantastic example of the capability of rural community organisations during the pandemic. The Partnership was founded many years ago as an umbrella organisation to work ...

On Wednesday morning I went on the tour around New Lanark Village – I foolishly agreed to this tour before deciding to walk from Lanark to New Lanark… so I easily managed my daily 10,000 steps much earlier in the day than normally is the case. I ...