In this episode, we catch up with Amelia Heath (Co-Director, Forth Rivers Trust), Clara Schade-Poulsen (Leven LENs Project Officer), and Tom Brown (Senior Programme Manager, LENs Scotland) to explore how the Leven LENs is taking shape following its launch.  

We discuss what LENs really means on the ground: how farmers and businesses are partnering to fund environmental improvements, what actions are being supported, and what’s next for this innovative approach in Scotland and beyond. 

This episode offers practical insight into how collaborative, place-based solutions are helping unlock environmental outcomes at scale to the mutual benefit of those living and operating in a landscape.  

Host Harry Fisher, Producer Iain Boyd, Editor Kieron Sim, Executive Producers Kerry Hammond & Kirstyn Blackwood.

Timestamps: 

0:50 – 4:56 Intro to speakers, LENs and recent developments 

4:56 – 19:44 Leven LENs , who is involved, motives and drivers  

19:44 –  29:25 How to get involved and farmer perspective  

29:25 – 40:26 Consensus and feedback so far 

40:26 – end: LENs elsewhere, sharing benefits and more info 

Related FAS resources:   

Natural Capital: https://www.fas.scot/sounds/natural-capital/  

Landscape scale conservation: https://www.fas.scot/article/landscape-scale-conservation/  

Specialist advice: https://www.fas.scot/specialist-advice/  

Other Related Resources: 

Landscape Enterprise Networks LENs: https://landscapeenterprisenetworks.com/  

LENs Impact Report: https://landscapeenterprisenetworks.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/LENs_impact_report_2024.pdf  

Leven Catchment Collective: https://catchmentcollective.scot/  

Leven LENs funding announcement: https://www.3keel.com/news-lens-leven-funding-july-2025/  

FIRNS: https://www.nature.scot/funding-and-projects/firns-facility-investment-ready-nature-scotland