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Planting career seeds, winnowing grain
Winnow Wizard heading to Wales
Planting career seeds, winnowing grain

Shea harvesting marigold seeds with a vacuum cleaner The Pebble Trust was…

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The Decarbonisation of Boleskine House
The Decarbonisation of Boleskine House

The Pebble Trust was pleased to be able to contribute to the…

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Growing Food and Trees at Ballachulish Primary School
Growing Food and Trees at Ballachulish Primary School

Meg Pollock shares her experience of this positive approach, funded by The…

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Women’s Deer Stalking on Quinag
Women’s Deer Stalking on Quinag

Piloting a women’s deer stalking programme based around Quinag estate in Sutherland. Traditionally a male dominated activity, this project aimed to involve more women, open stalking up to the community and provide a local, sustainable food resource.

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Funding farm resilience
Funding farm resilience

The Farm Resilience Programme, run by The Royal Countryside Fund, offers free business skills training to family farmers across the UK, delivering economic, social, and environmental benefits for farmers. The Pebble Trust supported the delivery of the 2023/24 Farm Resilience programme in the Highlands & Islands.

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Sustainable investing
Sustainable investing

The Pebble Trust has been working to align its investment policies with its aim for a more sustainable, fair and low-carbon world – a challenging task in a world dominated by multi-national businesses which are rarely as focused on ethical issues. Recently we have been making some changes, supported by James MacDonald from RSQ Wealth. James gave us these insights.

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Evaluating our grants programme
Evaluating our grants programme

In The Pebble Trust’s 10th year of operation, we wanted to assess the impact we have had and learn how we might improve on this. Did our funding make a difference to our grantees? To find out, we commissioned The Impact Hub in Inverness to carry out an evaluation of our grant programme.

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Finding the Common Ground
Finding the Common Ground

The Common Ground Forum promotes a more collaborative approach to upland deer management in Scotland, based on mutual respect and consensus building. A grant from the Pebble Trust allowed the Forum to carry out more outreach to stakeholders and to better engage with the Scottish Government.

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Inkcap Journal – making an impact in Scotland
Inkcap Journal – making an impact in Scotland

A Pebble Trust grant enabled Sophie Yeo of Inkcap Journal to commission nature and conservation stories of depth and quality, all with a Scottish focus and covering everything from ancient island crops and sheep to wolves, deer stalking and Climavore diets.

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