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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• 12Aug

  Place-name of the week – Deep ida daals

  Old Norse dalr place-names are commonly used for valleys in Norway and Iceland, as well as in Shetland and Orkney. In Shetland, although the map spelling is generally the same as the English dale, the pronunciation is usually daal, del or dil.

• 12Aug

  What to look for this week - Burying Beetles

  Once we get into late summer and the nights are relatively still and warm nocturnal insect activity reaches a peak. Paul Harvey tells us more about burying beetles.

• 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.