SEBG members are committed to representing the interests of land-based businesses and rural communities.

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• Overview
• Code of Practice

SEBG is active across a wide range of issues relevant to rural Scotland.

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• Sustainable Rural Development
  • - Enterprise
  • - Agriculture
  • - Renewable Energy
• Environment
  • - Natural Heritage
  • - Access
  • - Leisure & Tourism
  • - Enjoy Estates Initiative
• Communities
  • - Housing
  • - Community Facilities
  • - Education
• Built Heritage

• Affordable Housing
• Atholl Glens Organic Beef and Lamb
• Community Involvement - Langholm Initiative
• Deer Management
• Enjoy Estates
• Langholm Moor Demonstration Project
• Letting of Land to New Entrants - A Roxburghe Estate View
• Climate Change - The Role of Estates
• Creating Opportunities for New Entrants
• Focus on Forestry and Timber
• Role of Fishing in Scotland's Rural Economy
• Rural Renewable Energy Conference & Exhibition

Articles, news releases and publications relevant to SEBG.

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• SEBG News
• SEBG News Archive
• SEBG Publications
• SEBG Publications Archive

If you would like to know more about the Scottish Estates Business Group there are several ways you can contact us.

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• Scotland Map Showing Regional SEBG Contacts

Communities

Community Facilities

SEBG members have a history of providing community facilities:

• The village hall in Dunecht is owned by Dunecht Estates and managed by the local hall committee. Other facilities provided by the Estates include the local football club, cricket club, sailing club, golf club and pony club.
• Roxburghe Estate has given over land at Sprouston for the use of a village hall and for a village green, whilst Atholl Estates provides shops at low rents for use as post offices and village halls. In the Almond Valley, Mansfield Estates supports the licensee of a village pub by holding the rent below commercial level.
• At Kelso and at Scone, the racecourses let by the Mansfield Estate and Roxburghe Estate respectively to racing organisations provide vibrant and thriving businesses that attract entries from all over Great Britain and bring significant trade benefit to the two communities.
• On the River Teviot, local anglers can fish for salmon through a rent-free arrangement between the Roxburghe Estate and the Kelso Angling Association. A similar scheme is run on the River Tay by the Mansfield Estate through the provision of the Stormont Angling Club's facilities which allow affordable fishing to the residents of Perth and Scone.
• The Fasque and Glen Dye Estates in the North East of Scotland worked with their local community to create and develop the Clochnaben Hill Trust to protect and renovate the path to the tor on Clochnaben. The hill is an important and much climbed local landmark and the path was beginning to suffer badly from erosion. Glen Dye is also popular for outings by the local pony club, scout camps and walkers, as well as for orienteering - including occasional Scottish championships.
• A Riding School for the Disabled has been established by the Lothian Estate, whilst the Harestanes Centre has been made available to the local council for use as an educational resource by local school pupils.
• The Glenesk Folk Museum, a former shooting lodge gifted to the Glenesk Trust by Lord Dalhousie, has been reconstructed as a museum, tearoom, shop and community facility and is run by and for the community, with administrative support by Dalhousie Estates .