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Community Land Leadership Group

The Community Land Leadership Group was established to provide a collaborative forum to guide alignment of activity to support the development of community ownership and governance of land and assets.

The scope of the Group’s focus includes:

• Development of community land ownership as currently achieved through community rights to buy, asset transfer, and negotiated transactions
• Use of, and potential for, other hybrid governance models that enable community ownership and control
• Sharing experience, ideas, opportunities and lessons learned to inform collective policy and practice
• Development of collaborative and partnership approaches.

The members of the Community Land Leadership Group are:

Michael Russell (Chair), Scottish Land Commissioner, Scottish Land Commission
Hamish Trench, Chief Executive, Scottish Land Commission
Gemma Campbell, Land Rights and Responsibilities Manager, Scottish Land Commission
Rebekah Dundas, Funding Manager, National Lottery Community Fund
Pauline Smith, Chief Executive, Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS)
Sandra Holmes, Head of Community Assets, Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE)
Kirsten Logue, Community Development Specialist, South of Scotland Enterprise (SoSE)
Ailsa Raeburn, Chairperson, Community Land Scotland (CLS)
Josh Doble, Director of Policy & Advocacy, Community Land Scotland
Patrick Kirkham, Head of Land Reform, Scottish Government
Dave Thomson, Head of Community Land Team, Scottish Government.

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