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Head Chef at Brodick Bar and Brasserie on the Isle of Arran, Timur Jay Ünal, has won NFU Mutual’s Inspirational Young Person Award.

A team of eight Scots have raised over £42,000 by completing a tough 24-hour coast to coast challenge in aid of My Name’5 Doddie Foundation.

The cost of rural theft in Scotland fell 25% to an estimated £1.7m in 2020 as COVID restrictions, rural policing and beefed up farm security kept criminals out of the countryside, according to figures released by leading rural insurer, NFU Mutual.

A spectacular celebration of conservation and the countryside for over three decades, The GWCT Scottish Game Fair, sponsored by NFU Mutual, will return to Scone Palace in Perthshire this year from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 September, for its 32nd year.

A ‘perfect storm’ of positives looks set to make this one of the best GWCT Scottish Game Fairs yet – providing a massive shot in the arm for the industry.

NFU Mutual’s agent and branch offices in Scotland are delighted to have nominated 32 local charities to receive a combined donation of more than £206,000 from a national £2m ‘Agency Giving Fund’ launched by NFU Mutual’s Head Office.

Organisers of The GWCT Scottish Game Fair sponsored by NFU Mutual have seen an unprecedented surge in both ticket sales and exhibition stand bookings after Nicola Sturgeon revealed the roadmap to Level 0 in Scotland.

GWCT Scotland first started using the Epicollect5 App at our demonstration farm in Aberdeenshire to maintain predator control and habitat management data. This type of information gathering paved the way for thinking about how we can further equip keepers and land managers with a simple, effective tool to record a variety of management information.

Check out the latest from the GWCT Shoots.