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At its meeting on Wednesday 13 August 2025, the Forum approved the following statement: Independence Forum Scotland notes and supports the resolution from the House of Commons, Westminster, on 4th July 2018, “That this House endorses the principles of the Claim of Right for Scotland, agreed by the Scottish Constitutional Convention in 1989 and by …

FORUM STATEMENT: CLAIM OF RIGHT FOR SCOTLAND AND ENDORSEMENT OF PETITION PE2135 Read More »

Summer Convention 2025 The second gathering of the Convention took place on Saturday 14 June 2025 at the Salutation Hotel, Perth.  The programme was as follows: Stuart McHardy and Roger Emmerson held a discussion on the topic ‘Wha’s Like Us? A Look at Scottishness, Scotland and Independence’. John Hutchison, IFS Secretary, gave an update on ‘Scotland’s …

SUMMER CONVENTION – AN EVENTFUL DAY IN PERTH Read More »

Our Summer Convention is scheduled for Saturday 14th June 25 in Perth at the Salutation Hotel. Further updates on progress and our plans for the summer and autumn conventions will be available on this page and through our network of member organisations

The IFS National Convention on Scotland’s Future, scheduled for 30 November, will now have its first meeting on SATURDAY 1 MARCH 2025. The Memorial Service will be an opportunity for people throughout Scotland, whether or not they are present at St Giles’s Cathedral, to reflect on Alex Salmond’s life and achievements, and to say a …

NEW DATE (1st March 2025) FOR NATIONAL CONVENTION ON SCOTLAND’S FUTURE Read More »

The Management Committee, on the recommendation of the National Convention Project Planning Team and after some thought, has decided to postpone the Convention meeting planned for St Andrew’s Day.  The decision was taken in view of the potential for Alex Salmond’s Memorial event also to be taking place on that date.    Although we are in …

St ANDREW’S DAY CONVENTION POSTPONED Read More »

Normally at this point we’d be giving an update on the various activities going on within IFS, but we’ll cover those in next week’s newsletter.  Over the past few days, there’s been a far bigger story to discuss. Many people, across the political spectrum and on both sides of the constitutional divide, will have reacted …

TRIBUTE TO ALEX SALMOND Read More »

Planning has moved on apace and this flyer HERE gives the current details. We are now able to invite individual applications.  To be eligible to participate, nominees must be aged 16 or over, be a permanent resident in Scotland and have lived in Scotland for more than five years. We envisage that the Convention on …

Individual Regional Applications are Now Open Read More »

The Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) was set up to provide an opportunity to inform, motivate and encourage cooperation across the Scottish Independence movement, with a membership base of 21 regional and national member organisations. The origins of IFS date back to 2021, holding regular meetings, before it was formally constituted in June 2023. Its founding …

A PROSPECTUS FOR INDEPENDENCE IS ESSENTIAL FOR A SUCCESSFUL FUTURE FOR OUR COUNTRY Read More »

The Independence Forum Scotland (IFS) was formally inaugurated in June 2023, as a democratically constituted network of 21 regional and national member organisations having existed as a loose gathering of pro-independence groups since August 2021. The intention  was to unite the movement which appeared to be fracturing into multiple groupings. That remains a key aim …

CONVENER’S ANNUAL REPORT to AGM, 29 July 2024 Read More »