Fife Investment Fund

This Fife Council fund can help support and encourage companies in Fife to invest in and grow their business.

Businesses must be able to demonstrate that the project they wish to undertake will lead to sales growth and increased employability in Fife. The fund amount is up to 70 per cent or £10,000, whichever is the lesser of the project. 

The fund is discretionary and applicants must first discuss suitability of their proposed project with a Business Gateway Fife adviser.

Technology To Help Tourism Businesses in Scotland Adapt and Diversify

Explore the Traveltech Directory which has been designed to help you look at different technologies and how they can help you adapt and diversify your tourism business.

It includes case studies and a list of companies that offer technology solutions from online ticketing and creating podcasts, to app development and more.

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Scottish Business Climate Collaboration Climate Action Hub

The Scottish Business Climate Collaboration (SBCC) Climate Action Hub is a free e-learning platform to help small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Scotland to better understand their carbon emissions and reporting.

The hub includes 12 short e-learning modules on topics ranging from entry-level climate science to carbon emissions from business practices. Businesses also get free access to a dashboard to track carbon literacy across their organisation, as well as tools to calculate their carbon baseline and develop a carbon reduction plan. 

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Two-Day Employee Ownership Learning Journey 

Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is hosting a free learning journey to Scottish businesses to visit employee-owned companies in Renfrewshire and Lanarkshire to showcase examples of effective employee ownership in successful, growing businesses.

These companies will share their learning and experience giving helpful pointers of what has worked and what hasn’t in their employee ownership journey.  

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Made In Scotland, Sold To The World Exporter Roadshow

Hosted by the UK Government's Department for Business and Trade with Insider, this in person and online event will demystify the challenges and highlight the benefits of selling your products and services internationally.

At this event, you will hear from exporters, trade experts and UK Government representatives who will discuss how you can navigate your export journey and the global opportunities that are out there.

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Leadership Development Programme

The Leadership Development Programme run by Scottish Enterprise will help you improve your business productivity and better engage with your employees. The programme has two levels, depending on your business needs.

The Growth Leadership level is for leaders whose businesses have planned growth aspirations, or experienced leaders who want to build on previous participation in leadership development activities.

The Essential Leadership level is for leaders whose businesses are in the early stages of growth, as well as new leaders and potential leaders who will be moving into a leadership role in the next two to three years.

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Supporting Local Food and Drink Businesses

Food festivals, food and drink trails, markets and online shops are among the 22 local and collaborative projects to receive support from the latest round of the Scottish Government’s Regional Food Fund.

The Fund, managed by Scotland Food & Drink, aims to support regional growth by providing support for projects to promote and sell products from their areas. A fourth round of funding opened last October, with a total of £100,000 available.

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Free Intellectual Property Advice

Intellectual property (IP) is the intangible, intellectual creations of the mind. For many businesses, their intellectual property (IP) and associated rights are the most valuable assets they have and can separate them from their competitors. So, it’s important to protect your IP and to develop and IP strategy.

Scottish Enterprise offers free and impartial IP advice to help when you're developing new products and services either by yourself or in collaboration with others.

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Guide on How To Build A Sustainable Supply Chain

Scottish Enterprise’s guide to how to build a sustainable supply chain provides an introduction to improving the sustainability performance of your business’s supply chain.

It contains information on how to find ethical suppliers and materials and explores how you can collaborate with your supply chain effectively for mutual benefit.

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Introduction to Mailchimp Email Marketing

This workshop will provide delegates with helpful hints & tips relating to the creation of a Mailchimp account, the importing of contacts and how they can go about planning outbound campaigns to help them market their business.

This introductory workshop will also show participants how they can evaluate their campaigns, helping them get an understanding of how successful their campaigns have been.

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SMART SCOTLAND grant

SMART:SCOTLAND is a research and development (R&D) grant for small and medium-sized businesses that aims to support high risk, highly ambitious projects. It covers conducting feasibility studies to show how ideas could work in the real world and supports activities that have a commercial endpoint.

The grant is only available to small and medium enterprises (SMEs) based in Scotland and supports the activities of commercially focused R&D projects.

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Share and Repair Network Tourism Fund

Circular Communities Scotland’s Share and Repair Network has made a fund available to trial innovative circular approaches in repair, sharing or re-use targeted at the tourism sector.

The amount to be distributed is £135,500, made available from Airbnb, resulting from the COP26 event in Glasgow.

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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.

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CABWI Charity Funding

CABWI promotes learning and development that enables young people and adults to gain additional skills and confidence to enter the labour market. 

Registered charities, CIC, Cooperatives, Social enterprises, anywhere in UK with an income below £1 million can apply.

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