The Southern Uplands Partnership

04/02/2026

Job opportunity: Head of Land Use and Biodiversity
The Southern Uplands Partnership (SUP) is now hiring for the exciting, newly created role of Head of Land Use and Biodiversity.

The successful candidate will have the potential to play a leading role in local biodiversity action plans, forest and woodland strategies and re-establishment of biodiversity partnerships in Dumfries and Galloway and the Scottish Borders, as well as shape SUP's programme of nature connection activity in communities.

Salary: £42,436 (FTE)
Deadline: 10am, Monday, 2 March

Download the full job pack by visiting https://sup.org.uk/job-opportunity-we-are-hiring/

28/01/2026

Do you have a wee patch of land you’re trying to make a bit wilder?
Or just love chatting about trees, ponds, and all things nature-y? We're sharing this lovely flyer from Nicki, who along with her partner Mark is rewilding a 4‑acre field on the Rhins of Galloway.

13/01/2026

🌎 Today we’ve been at a Climate Ready South East Scotland Adaptation Partnership workshop with Verture - discussing priorities for climate adaptation actions in South East Scotland!

13/12/2025

🌳 Our SUP team from the Borders and D&G had a great woodland get together at Lochwood near Moffat last week before our Christmas lunch!

🔎Taking time to look closely and share perspectives on what these old oak woods had to share

17/11/2025

A content creation workshop for young people (16-25 years) interested in nature restoration and conservation is being held near Melrose on Saturday - led by Bloom Media and Bright Green Nature.

13/11/2025

🚜We’ve been at the Farming for the Future conference with Galloway and Southern Ayrshire UNESCO Biosphere Propagate and NFU Scotland today in Ayrshire!

👂 Listening to the experiences, opportunities and challenges for farmers across our regions as we look to the future- some great learning and sharing!

02/11/2025

The final day of Tweed River Festival is here and the sun is out for a site visit to Eddleston Water with Tweed Forum as part of CCScotland Springboard Local Assembly☀️

It’s been a fantastic three days, celebrating the river in Peebles!

Connecting Threads: Tweed River Culture

23/10/2025

NEWSFLASH! SUP AGM + Launch of the Forests and Woodlands of the South of Scotland: A Vision for enhanced Environmental and Community Benefits - 26th November 2025, The Buccleuch Centre, Langholm, DG13 0AW

You are invited to join the Southern Uplands Partnership and members of the Environmental Alliance of the South of Scotland for the launch of an important and timely new paper, setting out our vision and recommendations for Forests and Woodlands in the South of Scotland.

2026 will bring Scottish Parliament elections, as well as the development of new Forest and Woodland Strategies by both Scottish Borders and Dumfries & Galloway Councils, so the time is ripe to begin to explore how policymakers, foresters, communities, and NGO’s can better work together to increase environmental and community benefits from our forests and woodlands.

Prof. Jaboury Ghazoul will outline his global and local experience of pioneering approaches to collaborative land-use planning, in complex multi-stakeholder contexts.

The afternoon will also include the Southern Uplands Partnership’s annual general meeting, networking and refreshments.
For further information and to book, please go here:

Join us to hear about our vision for forests and woodlands, explore innovative approaches to collaboration & participate in the SUP AGM

06/10/2025

NEWSFLASH! Freelance Opportunity!
Regular readers will know that The Southern Uplands Partnership has been incubating the CABN (Creative Arts Business Network) in the Scottish Borders. We're delighted to announce this freelance opportunity for a new CABN Co-ordinator, as CABN enters an exciting next stage in its journey. Alongside co-ordinating CABN services and delivery, the Coordinator will play a key role in working with CABN members and stakeholders to plan and fundraise for CABN's future.

Closing date for applications is 9.00 am on Monday 3rd November 2025. To apply, please send covering letter and CV to [email protected]. Further details and the full role description / specification can be downloaded here https://www.cabn.info/2025/09/opportunity-cabn-project-coordinator/

06/10/2025

🌱 Our sbclimateactionnetwork team were recently invited to write about their ongoing work supporting Youth Climate Action in the Borders for a feature with YouthLink Scotland.

Have a read on the Youth Link Scotland website 👉 https://www.youthlink.scot/blog/14510/

Charles Fletcher, Scottish Borders Climate Action Network (SBCAN) writes about Borders Act for Change’ a programme of meaningful climate action, bringing together 65 organisations and over 3500 people from across the Scottish Borders.

02/10/2025

👂 We’ve had a great day of conversations with other members of the Blue Spaces Learning Network in Birmingham today!

🍀 We were lucky to be in the room with some other fantastic organisations working with fresh water ecosystems in their communities through programmes supported by esmeefairbairn - including our own Connecting Threads: Tweed River Culture

🌎 Sharing approaches to citizen science, DEI and learning about the nature rights movement across the UK and the world!

17/09/2025

ANNOUNCING: Tweed River Festival 2025 - Friday, 31 October - Sunday, 2 November, Peebles
Connecting Threads presents Tweed River Festival, a new annual creative celebration of the River Tweed! This year, the festival takes place across multiple indoor and outdoor sites near Peebles in the Scottish Borders, on and alongside the River Tweed.
Join them for three days of river-focused creative activities – from workshops, film screenings, music and performances, to drawing installations, readings, walks, talks, discussions and more. Envisioned as a gathering of river-loving communities, the festival’s inaugural edition is the culmination of their 2025 programming theme, Watery Commons.

Tickets will be available to book on the website soon.
To find out more visit https://www.tweedriverculture.org/