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Up to £15,000 for eligible businesses. Thousands of businesses can now apply for up to £15,000 to help retrain and upskill their workforce. The Scottish Government’s Flexible Workforce Development Fund provides workers in organisations of all sizes with access to training courses through local colleges, the Open University in Scotland and Skills Development Scotland. Now

Fred. Olsen 1848, a renewable energy innovation company, is exploring the deployment of a mobile quayside, known as the Mobile Port Solution, as part of Opportunity Cromarty Firth’s(OCF) bid to become a Green Freeport. Building upon the existing infrastructure and competencies for manufacturing, assembly and integration of large industrial scale floating offshore wind structures, the

Stephen Leckie, President of Scottish Chambers of Commerce, Chair of the Scottish Tourism Alliance and Chairman and Chief Executive of Crieff Hydro is to be the keynote speaker at the 2022 Highland Business Awards.  Stephen Leckie is the fifth generation of his family to run the Crieff Hydro hotel and estate since the doors opened on Scotland’s

Highland Business Award for InnovationSponsored by Highlands & Islands EnterpriseInverness Kart Raceway ishga Parklands Care Homes Highland Business Award for ResilienceSponsored by Caithness Chamber of CommerceHighland Farm Cottages and Highland Farm Café Mowi ScotlandSonas Hotel Collection Highland Business Award for Environmental SustainabilitySponsored by SSE RenewablesThe Glen Mhor Hotel M&H Carriers North Point Distillery Highland Business

We’re all now familiar with the cost of living crisis – how households are struggling to keep up with bills and afford the rapidly rising cost of food, fuel and other essentials. But there’s another crisis which is dramatically hitting businesses, and that’s the ‘cost of doing business’ crisis.  Firms across the country are being

The UK’s largest regional airline has said the Scottish Highlands can provide a “key building block” in the drive to decarbonise the country’s air transport system. Loganair believes proposed large-scale green hydrogen production in the region would play a crucial role in establishing the range of national infrastructure needed for airlines to switch to clean,

Leading Scotch whisky maker Whyte and Mackay has said the establishment of a Green Freeport in the Scottish Highlands would help it achieve its target of becoming carbon neutral by 2030. The firm, which is the largest distiller in the north of Scotland, is expected to be one of the first users of green hydrogen