Read The Latest Edition of FBM Update

This month's edition of Fife Business Matters is now available to read online.

This exciting publication is packed with the latest updates on business activities, award successes, collaborations, and significant developments in Fife.

Businesses featured this month include Cuan Tec, Velux, Digiflec, Carbon Group, Bowhouse, Time Capsule Productions and Oscars Coffee House.

Fife Businesses Receive Grant Funding To Incentivise Industrial Decarbonisation

Two Fife businesses have been awarded grants to help grow their innovative energy-saving projects as part of a new round of Scottish Government funding totalling £7.2 million.

This set of grants has been awarded to nine projects across a range of businesses – including Kettle Produce and Scott Timber - leveraging private funding to reach a total of £19 million of investment.

The Scottish Industrial Energy Transformation Fund supports projects that aim to reduce carbon emissions that are created during energy-intensive manufacturing processes.

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Support for Businesses Considering Employee Ownership

If you are interested in exploring employee ownership for you and your business, Co-operative Development Scotland can provide funded support from an experienced adviser.

They will help you consider employee ownership as an exit strategy. They will also review all succession options open to your business.

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Strategic Workforce Development Funding For The Clean Heat Sector

The Clean Heat Strategic Workforce Development Fund offers workplace innovation support to Scottish companies that are working or interested in the clean heat market.

This practical support helps businesses improve their processes by making better use of staff skills, experience and creativity to carry out everyday tasks.

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Inspiring Women Leaders - The Journey! Featuring Sophie Rankine  

Sophie Rankine has accomplished much in her life so far. With tremendous energy and a truly inspiring story, she has made a significant impact in various fields. She spent fifteen years in the San Francisco Bay Area with her family and holds an Associate's Degree in Communication Studies.

Coming from a family of entrepreneurs, Sophie started her own business at the age of 21, following the death of her beloved father. She now has over seven years of experience running her own businesses.

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Space Sector Routes to Market Programme

Launch Your Business into the Space Sector with Fife Council Economic Development.

Its innovative Routes to Market Programme is designed to empower Fife businesses offering the knowledge, tools, and connections you need to thrive in the rapidly growing space industry.

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Start-Up Support to Creative Businesses

Business Gateway Fife working in partnership with OnFife, is delivering Start-Up Support to Creative Businesses.  

If you are a passionate creative looking to turn your talent into a thriving business? Let us be your guide! As experienced business advisers specialising in the creative industry, we offer tailored support to help you launch your dream venture with confidence and success.

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Enterprise Hub Fife, The Place To Do Business 

Enterprise Hub Fife opened its doors in Glenrothes seven years ago as a pioneering one stop shop to inspire entrepreneurs and boost business growth.  

Now it has been refurbished to maximise the space to offer premium quality meeting rooms and office space.

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Webinar - Social media essentials: Instagram

Thinking about using Instagram to communicate with existing and potential customers? Want to showcase your products or services using it?

This webinar will show you how to use the world’s most popular image sharing app, Instagram, for your business benefit.

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Scottish Enterprise Account Management Service

Scottish Enterprise provides a dedicated account management service for ambitious companies that can demonstrate that they can make a significant contribution to achieving a fairer and greener economy.

The account management service will develop your business strategy, offer advice and support to help build strong and effective leadership and management practices as well as build a tailored support package.

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The Fat Beehive Foundation - Websites and Digital Products Grants

The Fat Beehive Foundation is an independent UK registered charity that provides small grants for websites and digital products to other small UK registered charities.

Their aim is to help these organisations carry out their work in a more efficient and effective way, resulting in positive social benefit.

They only fund charities with an average income of less than £400,000 a year. As they aren’t a large funder, they provide highly specialised grants up to £2,500 and can’t fund every charity that applies to them. 

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International Trade Pathway - Smart Duty Management Part 2 - Understanding Regimes 40 And 42

Confused about customs rules when trading in the EU? Fife Chamber's second free International Trade course will explain:

• Different import and export options that affect your goods before they arrive.
• The 40 and 42 regimes: These are common ways to import goods into the EU for free circulation (meaning you can sell them).
• What a fiscal representative is: They can help handle your EU VAT (sales tax) if you're not based in the EU.

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Lunchtime Learning - Community Wealth Building

Fife Council and Fife Community Planning Partnership have agreed to implement community wealth building in Fife and have developed an ambitious and wide-ranging plan to do so. Fife Council, other public sector bodies, and the third sector will have a stake in the forthcoming opportunities and challenges that community wealth building offers.

At this session, Lauren Bennett, Community Wealth Building Project Manager at the Communities Directorate of Fife Council, will tell us more about what community wealth building hopes to achieve in Fife and provide information on some of the key benefits.

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