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Filming & photoshoots

​National Trust for Scotland locations have welcomed many productions, from music videos, documentaries, travel programmes, adverts and photo shoots to international TV drama series and feature films.

Our unique inventory of locations – from Glencoe and St Abb’s Head to Culross and Culzean Castle – provides a huge variety of backdrops with great stories to match. Hundreds of years of Scottish heritage is on view including dramatic mountains, historic houses, breathtaking coastlines, majestic forests and imposing castles. The Trust’s portfolio also includes significant sites in Scottish history, such as Bannockburn and Culloden battlefields and the birthplaces of Robert Burns and J M Barrie.

Filming Locations

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Our experts can offer advice in many areas of Scottish heritage, including history, archaeology, wildlife and collections, and we have an extensive photo library that is frequently used for research and factual programming.

The Trust’s dedicated Filming Manager will help you find the perfect location and provides a single point of contact from your initial enquiry to the shoot. All fees from filming go directly back to the location.

Get in touch by emailing filming@nts.org.uk

Please note that all productions will need to provide public liability insurance documents (£2 million minimum) to film at our locations. We also ask for at least 7 days’ notice to turn around filming enquiries.

Use of drones

The Trust welcomes the use of small unmanned aircraft (SUAs, also known as drones) but we have a duty to protect the heritage we’re entrusted with and will only permit operators to launch and land SUAs where it will not damage built heritage, how enjoyable the visitor experience is, or the natural environment.

All recreational and commercial operators must seek permission to launch and land SUAs at Trust properties directly from the property or properties at which they wish to fly. Contact details for all of our properties can be found under the Planning your visit section of the relevant site. The Property Manager of the property in question will respond to accept or decline the flight proposal and may request further information or suggest alternatives.

Commercial operators should contact the Trust’s Filming Manager via email at filming@nts.org.uk. All applicants should expect to wait up to 1 week for consent/refusal, and will need to provide the following:

• Public liability insurance for flying a drone (£2 million minimum)

• Risk Assessment and flight path

• Flyer ID and Operator ID (non-commercial flyers)

• CAA License (commercial flyers)

Productions shot at Trust locations

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