Scottish Crofting Federation is dedicated to campaigning for crofters and fighting for the future of crofting.

Our mission is to safeguard and promote the rights, livelihoods and culture of crofters and their communities.

Led by our members, SCF engages with agencies and government at local, national and international levels to affect policy on rural development.

We work to preserve and develop crofting through advocacy, training, representation and support, encouraging diversity through new young entrants to crofting.

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Gathering 2024

“What does crofting deliver today?

Crofting has a hugely important role in 21st century Scotland: we can learn a great deal from its history in land reform and in its traditions of supporting local communities, retaining young people, enabling access to land, and producing food from often the toughest ground by working with nature.

Join us as we weave together the traditional and the modern, the inspirational and the practical – much as crofting does itself – to reconnect with what unites us as crofters, and restore the fire in our bellies to champion and strengthen crofting for the future.”

Welcome to SCF

Working to develop, promote and encourage crofting.

Established and run by crofters themselves, SCF is dedicated to campaigning for crofters and fighting for the future of crofting. By actively engaging with agencies and government at local, national and international levels, we influence policy on rural, agricultural, social, environmental issues.

Originally set up in 1985 as the Scottish Crofters Union, the organisation continues to protect and promote the interests of crofters and the crofting community.