The Trust would like to thank the following for their essential contribution to the organisation, funding, running, and reporting of the 1999 Seminar and the prior study tour:-

Peter Baumann, for his excellent chairmanship
Caroline Higgs for her care and organisational skills as domestic bursar and travel agent!
Carmen Higgins and Fergus Cooney for a splendid evening of Scottish traditional music and song
TAIEX for their support for E European participants
The MacRobert Trusts for allowing us the use of their splendid conference facilities at Douneside
The Walter Higgs Trust for their support, without which our annual seminars would not be possible
Peter Willis for agreeing to be rapporteur and for largely putting together this report
All of the 22 participants at the seminar.
John Bryden who, as Programme Director of the Trust, organised the seminar and study tour, and prepared the issues paper for it

The following also agreed to meet those participants (mainly from the CEECs) who joined the two-day study tour organised by the Trust before the seminar. We would like to thank them for their time and contribution.

Jim Stephens, Scottish Office AEFD, Edinburgh
Dr J S Black , Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Inverness
Frank Gaskell, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Inverness
David Smillie, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, Inverness
Lorna Gregson MacLeod, Highlands and Islands Partnership, Inverness
Graham Strachan, Highland Council, Inverness
Sandy Renfrew, Crofters Commission, Inverness
Alan Dobie, Scottish Natural Heritage, Inverness Roy Anderson, Moray Badenoch & Strathspey LEADER Group, Strathspey
Elspeth Grant, LEADER Community Agent, Boat of Garten
Stuart Fulton, Cairngorms Partnership, Grantown on Spey