Kate Forbes MSP urges Highland charities and land trusts to apply to housing fund

Charities, community land trusts and housing co-ops across the Highlands have been urged by Kate Forbes MSP to apply for funding through the Nationwide Community Grants programme.

Kate Forbes MSP says community land ownership is a means to reverse Highland depopulation

Community land ownership in the Highlands is a means to an end – enabling people to stay and attracting new residents – Kate Forbes MSP will say in a keynote address later this week.

Kate Forbes MSP helps launch ‘drive on the left’ campaign

Earlier today (17 June) Kate Forbes MSP was at Urquhart Castle to help to launch a new road safety campaign that will help prevent vehicles driving on the wrong side of Highland roads. 

Appeal for more foster carers after investigation reveals Highland child fostered 300 miles from home

Kate Forbes MSP has appealed for more Highland foster parents and called on Highland Council to radically rethink its foster care arrangements after new figures revealed that the local authority has placed a child with a foster carer over 300 miles from home.

Skye MSP thanks healthcare campaigners as long-running petition is closed by Holyrood committee

Kate Forbes MSP has praised healthcare campaigners on the Isle of Skye after their long-running petition before a Holyrood committee was closed by MSPs – on account of their fears being alleviated by the ongoing implementation of the Ritchie Report.