Based on identified priorities, we can support the design and development of targeted projects for community benefit with local groups and stakeholders. Utilising natural capital, such projects derive benefit from ecosystem services and the team’s nature restoration expertise. They could create a wide range of impacts—from jobs and skills or land for affordable housing, to heritage and access for health and wellbeing—all underpinned by a commitment to positive outcomes for people and nature. Our team are skilled in project design and delivery and can support partners in identifying and accessing funding for delivery.

In October 2023, we received funding to co-develop a set of investment-ready business plans for community joint ventures on and around Bunloit, Beldorney, and Tayvallich.  

This project, ‘Joint Ventures for Scalable Community Benefits from Rewilding’, aims to co-develop several businesses, by communities local to the land we manage and Highlands Rewilding, to bring benefits from improvements in natural and cultural capital. 

From horticulture to heritage, we selected four community joint ventures (CJVs):

• A community growing scheme

• A local bike hire scheme

• A mindfulness through nature connection initiative

• Gu h-àrd is gu h-ìosal - Above and Below: Foraging and Heritage Tours

With selected images from across these joint ventures to the right.