After nine years of fundraising, planning, and logistically challenging conservation work, Canna House reopened to the public earlier this month. The island home of Gaelic scholars John Lorne Campbell and his American-born wife Margaret Fay Shaw has long been a beloved property of NTSUSA supporters, and we are deeply proud of the role Americans have […]

Canna is the most remote of the Scottish Isles, situated in the west of the Inner Hebrides. It has been under the National Trust of Scotland’s protection since 1981, but in recent years a huge project has begun to restore Canna House. This is of particular importance considering Canna House is home to a vast […]

Staffa is a breathtaking, remote island situated in the Inner Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland. The isle came under the protection of the National Trust for Scotland in 1986 after John Elliott Jr. of New York, fondly known as Jock, purchased the island to honor his wife Eleanor’s 60th Birthday. The couple decided […]

On July 10, The National Trust for Scotland acquired the Treshnish Isles. These islands are an internationally significant seabird nesting site located in the Inner Hebrides, and their acquisition builds on decades of American support for the National Trust for Scotland’s conservation initiatives across the Hebrides and beyond.

NTSUSA Executive Director Kirstin Bridier recounts her visit to the Isle of Canna earlier this year, describing the magic of the island and the activities going on at Canna to preserve the island and its heritage