The Scottish Countryside Alliance Educational Trust (SCAET) will be running a further six ‘Next Generation Country Days’ in 2008. The days will take place at venues all over Scotland.

During these days we bring up to 220 children between the ages of 10-15 years to different estates, which have been very generously loaned to the SCAET by their owners, throughout Scotland from the surrounding schools. There they will be split into groups and will be given the opportunity to gain experience and knowledge of the countryside and the conservation within it by being able to participate in the sports and work that allows it to exist. They will be introduced to conservation and biodiversity, shooting sports, fishing, game keeping, as well as given talks and displays about the use of working dogs, falconry and awareness of wildlife crime. In order to execute these days the SCAET has joined forces with registered and full disclosure certified instructors from BASC Scotland, Scottish Game Angling Instructors Association (GAIA), regional police forces, Scottish Gamekeepers Association (SGA) and local hunts among others. This year’s venues are as follows:        

Tuesday 27^th May – Southwick House, New Abbey, Dumfries-shire       

Wednesday 28^th May – Firniehirst Castle, Jedburgh, Borders       

Tuesday 3^rd June – Carnell Estate, Kilmarnock, Ayrshire         

Wednesday 4^th June – Duntreath Estate, Blanefield, Stirlingshire           

 Tuesday 10^th June – Dunecht Estate, Westhill, Aberdeenshire      

Wednesday 11^th June – Alvie Estate, Kingussie, Inverness-shire