title: Community Land Scotland
text: # 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
  