Free Consultancy Support For Fife-Based Businesses Fife’s Specialist Business Advice programme can provide SMEs in Fife that are looking to develop with up to three days of fully-funded consultancy support. Tailored, expert advice is available from specialists across a range of topics, from business strategy to sales and marketing and from financial planning to IT.
The Specialist Business Advice programme is delivered by Business Gateway Fife on behalf of Fife Council. It is fully funded by the UK Government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund. |
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Scottish Enterprise Ecosystem Fund The Scottish Enterprise Ecosystem Fund is for organisations that support Scottish entrepreneurs, start-up activity, or enterprise education.
The fund is looking for ideas that fill gaps and propel the business community forward, with a particular focus on helping entrepreneurs from under-represented groups.
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Less Than One Month To Short-Term Lets Licensing Deadline The Scottish Government has reminded short-term let operators in Scotland to apply for a licence before the 1st October deadline, highlighting that no application so far has been rejected.
Licensing has been introduced to ensure short-term lets in Scotland are safe and meet consistent quality standards, including having gas certificates and suitable electrical equipment.
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Access the Online Find a Grant Website Find a grant is an online tool service that allows you to search the UK government grants that are available, search and filter to find a grant that matches your needs and find out if you are eligible to apply for a grant.
You can also see a list of all grants and then filter the list based on your needs.
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Scottish Co-Investment Fund The Scottish Co-Investment Fund (SCF) from Scottish Enterprise provides match-funding for Scottish start-up, early-stage or growing companies that are seeking investment alongside accredited co-investment partners.
The fund is designed to address a finance gap and support your growth plans.
Funding is available in amounts from £100,000 up to £2 million, as part of a total deal size that typically ranges from £200,000 up to £10 million.
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Cluny Activities Centre Drives Its Ambitions Forward Fife’s premier outdoor activity centre, Cluny Activities, based near Cluny, Kirkcaldy, has come a long way since it diversified from a farm in 1992.
As well as becoming one of Scotland’s largest clay grounds, the business also offers a café, golf course, golf driving range, disc golf and foot golf, archery and rifle shooting in a site over 50 acres. And with such an emphasis on the environment, the business is looking at how it can get closer to Net Zero.
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Circular Economy Business Support Service This service helps businesses based in Scotland to develop work that will help increase the growth of the circular economy. Businesses from all sectors are eligible.
The service is designed to help companies explore circular ways of doing business. It will support organisations that are seeking to develop or implement new business models, technologies, practices, products or services that use circular economy principles.
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The St Andrews Hamper Company Is A Gift To Business When Alison Caldwell founded her online gift business in 2018, she knew she had the passion to create something really special.
The family business specialises in offering a range of unique, eco and organic gift hampers and in the past year has added a growing range of food hampers featuring produce from award-winning artisan suppliers.
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Register Now for Fintech Summit 2023 Join Scotland's 10th Annual Financial Technology Summit, the launch event of the Scotland Fintech Festival.
The conference will reflect on the evolution of financial technology against this backdrop of volatility; considering the key trends, challenges and market disruptions, and discussing the opportunity for Fintech to help customers manage the cost of living crisis and help the country to build back better.
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Marine Fund Scotland This fund supports investments and jobs in the seafood sectors, marine environment and coastal communities in Scotland.
The deadline for the current round of funding is 14th September 2023.
The fund replaces the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) following the UK’s exit from the EU. The EMFF supported the sustainable growth of the marine economy in coastal communities, in sectors such as fishing, aquaculture and seafood processing.
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Low Emission Zone Retrofit Fund The Low Emission Zone (LEZ) Retrofit Fund can help you improve your vehicles and avoid LEZ penalties. If you operate non-compliant vehicles that have retrofit solutions available in a planned LEZ, you could receive funding to cover up to 70% of the costs to make these changes to your vehicle.
By retrofitting vehicles with solutions approved by the Clean Vehicle Retrofit Accreditation Scheme (CVRAS), you can reduce your vehicle emissions and help improve local air quality. By becoming LEZ compliant, you can also avoid penalties.
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HMRC Webinars - Expenses for Parties, Presents and Travelling HMRC is running a series of webinars to help businesses understand the broad range of expenses and benefits received by employees and directors - and how to deal with them.
Whether it's travelling to more than one workplace, expenses for social functions and Christmas parties, or what counts as a 'trivial benefit' in the eyes of the HMRC, these free webinars will keep your business right.
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The Perfect Flexible Events 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. Click here to find out more |
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Networking for Introverts Seminar This will teach the skills and tricks necessary to participate successfully in face to face and remote business networking meetings. Aimed at people who identify as introverts, who don’t enjoy networking or who are just plain terrified by the idea of walking into a room full of strangers and starting a conversation. We will discover the secret that makes introverts actually better at networking than extroverts! Click here to find out more now |
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Community Ownership Fund - Round Three Now Open The Prospectus for the third round of the UK Government’s Community Ownership Fund has been published. This fund will run until April 2025 and aims to help communities take ownership of assets and amenities at risk of closure, so is only open to bids from eligible community organisations.
Applying to the fund is a two-stage process, with bidders having to successfully pass the Expression of Interest stage before they can submit a detailed application to one of the subsequent bid windows. There will be four bid windows per year, and applicants who have successfully passed the EOI stage can apply to any of the subsequent bid windows.
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Inward and Outward Processing Inward Processing (IP) is used to obtain relief from customs duties and import VAT on goods that are imported from outside the UK for processing. The basic principle is to allow UK exporters to be more competitive by reducing their processing costs, Processes that are permitted under IP include manufacturing sorting and packing repair and refurbishment.
This half day training course will examine the principles and terminology of IP and some of the operations available within IP and will look briefly at Outward Processing.
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