Our Purpose
Our Purpose
The Findhorn Hinterland Trust works with landowners and other stakeholders in the local area to help integrate land management and involve the local community.
Our specific purposes are :
- Conservation through active environmental protection and improvement.
- Education of the local community and wider public in relation to the outdoor and environmental benefits of the hinterland, its facilities and biodiversity.
- Community-building through the activities offered on the land and by promoting cooperation and collaboration between local landowners and stakeholders.
- Provision of recreational facilities and activities with the object of improving the conditions of life for local people and others in West Moray and beyond.
- The provision and management of a Green Burial ground, offering natural burial services in an unspoilt and peaceful setting.
Our Vision
A world with nature at the heart of every community.
Our Mission:
To create opportunities for the local community to engage with the Findhorn Hinterland ‘wild’ land.
LATEST NEWS
Engage with the Land ~ Saturday 29th October 2016
It’s fun, it’s active, it’s sociable, it’s time spent together in nature doing good work! Findhorn Hinterland Group Project Maintaining our Woodland and Land Work Party- Everyone invited, no experience needed. Saturday 29th October from 09:30am – 12pm Meeting Place:...
October 2016 News
Squirrel Survey. Last month’s group activity on the land involved a survey to record information about the presence of red squirrels in the Wilkie’s Wood.Scotland is a stronghold for the red squirrel, which is the only native squirrel in the UK with about 120,000...
Community Woodlands Association (CWA) Conference 2016
On the weekend of the 1st and 2nd of October, the CWA held its annual conference in Forres (at Horizon Scotland in the Enterprise Park). Eighty-five delegates attended representing many of the over one hundred and fifty community woods scattered throughout Scotland...