Growing Food and Trees at Ballachulish Primary School
Meg Pollock shares her experience of this positive approach, funded by The…
Read moreMeg Pollock shares her experience of this positive approach, funded by The…
Read morePiloting 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreIn 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.
Read moreThe 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.
Read moreA 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.
Read moreKyle of Lochalsh Community Trust received funding from The Pebble Trust for their Garden on the Plock project. Here they tell us how they turned part of the Plock of Kyle community parkland into an edible garden.
Read moreCereals and bread are central to the majority of diets across the western world. Until recently, both cereals and bread have been curiously absent from conversations and strategies about local and ecologically grown food. What is needed to enable this to happen?
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