Miriam Rune

We’ve announced our ambitions to deliver our flagship educational programme – Timesliders – at three locations in the North East by 2028, including the extension of an access fund to support pupils who face barriers to taking part. Since the launch of the Timesliders programme at Drum Castle in Aberdeenshire in 2025, over 1,150 pupils from 22 schools have engaged with the castle’s history through classroom activities, interactive storytelling, outdoor learning and collaborative puzzle-solving.

In time to celebrate 160 years of printing at Robert Smail’s Printing Works in the Scottish Borders and 40 years since the site’s rescue by the National Trust for Scotland, a rare late Victorian printing press has been restored to full working order. All six presses at the printing works are again producing print to stock the stationer’s shop and fulfil bespoke orders.

A striking feature on the coastline of the Isle of Arran, the restored summerhouse is the grandest and the only surviving of four such structures built for Princess Marie of Baden in the garden of Brodick Castle following her marriage in 1843 to William, 11th Duke of Hamilton. The summerhouse is built into the sandstone rockface of the cliff and offers spectacular views over Brodick Bay.