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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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Garden on the Plock
Garden on the Plock

Kyle 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.

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Towards an ecological bread system
Towards an ecological bread system

Cereals 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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Tackling the climate and cost of living crisis
Off shore wind turbines
Tackling the climate and cost of living crisis

Our reliance on oil and gas boilers is driving up energy bills and worsening the climate crisis. WWF Scotland explores how we can harness Scotland’s abundant renewable energy to tackle both of these challenges, for a cleaner and brighter future.

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The Power of Art – Engaging with Sustainability
The Power of Art – Engaging with Sustainability

Artist Julia Barton reflects on the power of art to engage people with sustainability issues. Her LOST exhibition visualizes and quantifies the fossil fuel energy held within plastic marine litter sculptures.

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Skye: Transport, turbines and transitions to hydrogen
Skye: Transport, turbines and transitions to hydrogen

In our latest blog BSc Geography graduate Saskia Huxham gives us a summary of her dissertation: An in-depth study of the windy isle: Skye residents on transport, turbines and transitions to hydrogen.

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