Community Land Scotland
# Community Land Scotland

Community Land Scotland is a charity and membership organisation for community landowners and aspiring community landowners. It was founded in 2010 to represent the interests of community landowners, promote legislation which empowers communities and provide a point of contact for community bodies interested in community land ownership.

Its members are estimated to own approximately 560,000 acres of land in the country.

## Objectives

Community Land Scotland states its main objectives as follows:

* Facilitate the exchange of information, enabling groups to learn from each other's experience and successes
* Promote the growing importance of the community landowning sector to Scotland
* Reform The Land Reform (Scotland) Act 2003 to simplify and strengthen powers to communities
* Encourage community groups to register an interest in land
* Work with communities to ease the process of communities taking ownership of public land
