Welcome

Our mission is to safeguard, enhance, and promote Shetland's heritage, ensuring it is accessible to be enjoyed by all.

Shetland Amenity Trust constantly strives to preserve and enhance everything that is distinctive about Shetland's cultural and natural heritage, promoting access to it whether physical or intellectual.

The Trust was created in 1983 and has since delivered an extensive range of high quality heritage and culture projects, in partnership with a range of local, national and international agencies.

We continue to be pro-active in seeking new opportunities and identifying new funding sources, to further enhance the heritage and culture experience for local Shetland people and visitors to our islands.

We are part of a community which takes great pride and pleasure in our cultural and natural heritage, embracing traditions, dialect and our physical environment in all of our activities.

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• 06Aug

  Place-name of the week - Nesses

  Ness place-names are common throughout the Viking world. Old Norse nes described headlands and was also used in both farm and village names.

• 06Aug

  Off the Beaten Track 19 – Skaw

  Walk Shetland’s Archaeological Secrets with Regional Archaeologist, Val Turner of Shetland Amenity Trust

• 05Aug

  What to Look for this week - Gentian Heaven

  The gentians are among the most attractive flowers found in Britain. Yet sadly, they are becoming increasingly rare.