The MSIP Accelerator programme will support a cohort of up to 15 companies that have developed products, prototypes or investor-ready solutions, focused on sustainable mobility.

The programme includes a range of workshops, interactive sessions and mentoring which offer each team access to industry insights and experience to ensure the success of their growth ambitions.

Inclusive Business Models And Support For Employee Ownership And Co-Operatives

Are you interested in creating fairer, more democratic and purpose-led businesses?

In the wake of the Covid 19 pandemic and as we face a cost-of-living crisis, the focus is shifting from businesses that generate profits for distant shareholders to ones that increase and spread the benefits of economic success more evenly.

Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) has championed inclusive business models such as employee ownership, consortium and community co-operatives since 2006 and as interest and demand for support grows in this area CDS has widened their service to work with a broader range of co-operative models

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Climate Action for Business Programme

Business in the Community (BITC) and Be the Business are hosting a series of free workshops that offer climate action advice and training for small and medium-sized business owners in Scotland.

You will learn how to develop a climate action plan for your business, measure your carbon footprint and reduce your emissions.

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Multi-Million Pound Investment In Glenrothes By International Whisky Business

Whisky Asset Management business, Scotch Whisky Investments (SWI),is to create a whisky storage and office facility at Southfield Industrial Estate. The international business has purchased 7.7 hectares of land at Crompton Road, Southfield Industrial Estate, Glenrothes, as part of the company’s multi-million-pound investment plans for Fife.

This sale is one of the largest industrial land deals in Fife in recent years and will aid the regeneration of Glenrothes, boosting the local economy and creating jobs in the area.

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Adam Smith Festival of Ideas 2023 Food and Drink Fair

Fife College has announced that the Adam Smith Festival of Ideas 2023 Food and Drink Fair is returning!

Fife College would like to invite Food and Drink businesses from Fife to showcase their products at this event with their own stall. And best of all, there is no need to pay a stall fee to secure your place at the Food Festival, it is now free. 

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Register Now for Meet the Buyer 2023

Whatever the size of your business, you will meet procurement teams, buyers and supply chains to learn about upcoming projects and tender opportunities locally, nationally within Scotland and right across the UK, at Meet the Buyer 2023!

Now in its 14th annual year, Scotland's national Meet the Buyer event is taking place as a fully in-person event at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on 17th May 2023.

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Digital Boost Guide: Selling Online The Next Steps

Once you've been trading online for a few months, it's worth reviewing your online sales offering to see how everything is working. This can help you to understand what parts of the process are or are not working well, and to identify opportunities or new ways of doing things.

This free guide from Business Gateway's DigitalBoost programme offers advice on the next steps to take once you've started selling online.

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Time Capsule Productions Capturing Memories

Dunfermline based, Time Capsule Productions launched in January this year when local audio producer, Lewis Harrower, started his new venture bringing together his passion for audio and love of telling stories.
 
In what is called Audio Time Capsules, you will be able to get a professionally made documentary made about yourself or a loved one to help keep their memories alive for generations to come.

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Delivering Thriving Local Communities

People are being asked for their views on how the planning system can support healthy, thriving and connected communities as part of a consultation launched by the Scottish Government.

As part of the implementation of the National Planning Framework 4 (NPF4), draft guidance has been prepared to support people to meet the majority of their daily needs within a reasonable distance of their home, preferably through active travel or by using public transport.

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Promote Your Business Through Your Employees - Webinar

Is promoting your business the last thing on your to-do list? Would you like to learn how your team can become your greatest marketing secret weapon?

This workshop/webinar shows you how you can get your staff to use their skills and interests in social media, photography, community liaison and much more to become your best business ambassadors.

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Introduction to Equalities, Diversity & Inclusion

Social Enterprise Scotland, with a range of partners, are running a series of events focused on Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) to increase understanding and share good practice across the social enterprise sector, starting with this session - An Introduction to EDI. 

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Making Keywords Work for your Website- Webinar

This workshop will cover how keywords work, what keywords are and where and how to use them as well as discuss the four types of keywords.

Find out how to approach keyword research and where to apply these keywords within your website.

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Firstport - Social Innovation Challenge

Firstport's Social Innovation Challenge is a programme that funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The 2023 theme is focused on issues connected with the rising cost of living.

Funders are looking to support new social enterprise ideas for removing the deep-rooted obstacles that prevent individuals and communities from living fulfilling and dignified lives, particularly in light of the current, well-publicised rise in the cost of living.

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Rules of Origin/Trading with the EU

If you are an exporter or an importer or are thinking of moving into either then you need to understand how rules of origin work.

They govern how customs authorities determine the ‘economic nationality’ of goods either where they are wholly grown or produced, or where the last substantial manufacturing transformation took place.   

This interactive online half day A to Z workshop combines theory and practice.

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Events and Meeting Space at Enterprise Hub Fife

Whether you are planning a strategy session, looking to host a training workshop or require offsite meeting space, Enterprise Hub Fife offers bright and spacious areas with modern facilities in the heart of Fife.

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