Business Gateway Fife has launched its exciting business training programme for the next six months featuring an extensive range of informative workshops and seminars designed to help you in business.

As well as webinars on core topics such as  Running Your New Business, Business Planning, Book Keeping and Marketing, the programme also has a selection of fantastic new webinars such as Developing a Short Term Cash Flow and Making Keywords Work for Your Website.

Net Zero Transition Fund Offers £3,000 Grant

The Net Zero Transition Fund is a non-repayable grant of up to £3,000 for businesses in Fife. It can be used to help your business move toward operating with net zero carbon emissions. 

Priority is given to businesses in sectors such as energy, financial and business services, food and drink, manufacturing and engineering, and tourism.

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Dunfermline based Nautoshark is continuing to grow its business within the Maritime Software industry with major developments in its Navarea Warnings product which allows vessels to navigate sea routes safely around the world. 
 
Euan Gordon is Director of Nautoshark, a software development specialist who has been creating and evolving software for several years.

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The third window of the £34 million Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund (SIETF) is now open. This offers an opportunity for industrial sites with high energy use to develop their proposals into applications for match-funded government grants to support their transition to a low-carbon future. 

SIETF will help the industry to cut energy bills by investing in more efficient technologies while reducing emissions by bringing down the costs and risks associated with investing in decarbonisation technologies.

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Multiprint Celebrates 50 Years At Forefront Of Printing Industry

A business, which started as a hobby for founder, George Warner, in the basement of his father’s house, with just an old litho printing machine costing £20, has come a long way in its 50 years. 

In 1972, George opened Multiprint in Cowdenbeath’s High Street, and through its determination to succeed, it soon moved with three employees to Mitchelston Industrial Estate. Then, in the mid-80s, it located to custom-built premises in  Kirkcaldy, where it is today. 

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Funding Support For Clean Energy Transition

The Clean Energy Transition Partnership is a competitive call with a two-stage application process.

The fund aims to get as many Scottish companies as possible involved in new clean energy solutions.

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Rural Leadership Programme

The Scottish Rural Leadership Programme is designed to help Scottish rural business owners who have the desire and ambition to grow their business.

The programme runs from October 2022 until early March 2023. It involves a series of engaging and stimulating workshops to help leaders develop themselves and their business through one-to-one coaching, peer-to-peer mentoring, innovation, and an inspirational learning journey to London and Edinburgh.

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October is Menopause Awareness month, and the Workplace Team from Fife Health and Social Care Partnership is launching a local campaign to raise awareness of the subject to increase understanding of the impacts on individuals and in the workplace generally.

The Workplace Team’s campaign will showcase their workplace menopause awareness resources including a Digital Toolkit, an Infobyte video and signposting to national resources.

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Top Tips To Help You Submit a Strong Fife Business Awards Application

If you haven't submitted your application for the 2023 Fife Business Awards, time is running out.

And to help you create a winning application, Fife Chamber of Commerce has asked its judging team to compile a list of their top tips.

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Whether you have moved to remote working and are looking for a professional space to host a meeting, or you simply want to get offsite for a sales meeting or HR Issue, Enterprise Hub Fife offers flexible meeting space to suit your requirements.

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Seven Steps to Promote Your Business - Webinar

This workshop helps delegates understand how PR, content marketing and social media merge and how to identify, organise and action the right moves to promote their businesses. 

This workshop shows you how to identify the right channels for your target market, how to “show and tell” your expertise and stand out from the competition, how to get media coverage from content marketing and social media and how to organise your efforts to make it all easy to manage.

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Here to Help - Request a Call Back from a Business Adviser

We understand things may be extremely challenging at the moment whether it's dealing with financial issues, supporting your employees, or understanding what needs to be in place to enable you to sustain and grow your business.

If you have any questions or just need someone to talk to, our business advisers are here to help.

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