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SAC Applauds Success Of Scottish Enterprise Rural Leaders Programme

SAC News Release Ref. No: 10N15
Published: 25 Feb 2010

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Rural Scotland has 35 new potential leaders. The group received their official certificates from Scottish Enterprise Chief Executive Lena Wilson at a special ceremony in Edinburgh. The ceremony marked the end of a busy period for already busy people who had grasped the opportunity offered to improve their life and leadership skills.

The Scottish Enterprise Rural Leadership Programme was established in 2006 with the aim of enhancing business performance through developing rural knowledge and political awareness to improve the professionalism of rural Scotland at all levels. The course was delivered this year by SAC staff who will begin a new programme in October this year.

A particular attraction of the programme is the way it brings together like-minded people with a rural focus. The latest diverse group included farmers, an estate factor, auctioneers, a meat processor, ecologist and banker. There was a project manager and representatives of a software company, mapping company and machinery ring.  

They worked in three groups, each with their own facilitator, based in the west around SAC’s Auchincruive campus, in the north at Craibstone, Aberdeen, with the east group in Edinburgh. Over six months they had twelve days of meetings and events, with three coaching sessions delivered as rural knowledge workshops or residential modules. There was media training and group learning based on leadership development. In their own time they carried out research projects on food, green tourism and alternative energy.

Their programme ended with the highlight of extended visits to the Scottish Parliament, Westminster and Brussels. Through meeting MSP’s, Members of Parliament and the House of Lords, MEP’s, officials, lobbyists and representatives of rural organisations they gained a deeper understanding of the political process and how to influence it.

Scottish Enterprise will be running another Rural Leadership Programme from October 2010 to February 2011. Recruitment starts in May. Anyone interested should contact Catriona Clark, SAC Craibstone.

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