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Guest Blog: When solving today’s cashflow challenge creates tomorrow’s problem

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by Alex Russon, Regional Director, Ultimate Finance Businesses across Inverness and the rest of Scotland have faced a relentless run of challenges in recent years. From the pandemic and supply chain disruption to inflation, rising interest rates and wider uncertainty, many owners have had to make decisions fast. In that environment, borrowing can quickly become […]

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SSEN Transmission launches landmark Strategic Investment Fund in £12m community funding commitment

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SSEN Transmission is launching a new fund to support large-scale strategic projects that will boost skills and employability and help tackle fuel poverty across the north of Scotland. The new Strategic Investment Fund will invest up to £10m over the next two years and forms part of SSEN Transmission’s existing Regional Community Benefit Fund, which

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Double award triumph for Highland walk-in mental health service

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The Discovery College, the Highlands’ pioneering walk-in mental health, addiction and wellbeing peer led recovery college, is celebrating a double success at the 2026 Highland Third Sector Interface Awards. The community-led initiative which provides free, face-to-face mental health and addiction peer support in Inverness and Wick, won the Community Initiative Award, while Discovery College Manager

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Employment continues to increase across Scotland’s private sector in August

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The latest Royal Bank of Scotland Growth Tracker indicated that business conditions across Scotland’s private sector moved closer to stabilisation in August. The headline Royal Bank of Scotland Business Activity Index – a seasonally adjusted index that measures the month-on-month change in the combined output of Scotland’s manufacturing and service sectors – rose to 48.9

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Retro Afternoon Tea raises thousands for Inverness charity

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Local charity The Oxygen Works held its annual afternoon tea event at the Kingsmills Hotel last month, bringing together 130 guests for an afternoon of fundraising, entertainment and community spirit. Following previous themes of Perfectly Pink and Completely Country, this year’s Dancing Through The Decades theme saw most guests embrace the occasion by dressing up

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NatureProsperity aims to raise £26m to tackle climate, biodiversity and housing challenges

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NatureProsperity Ltd is currently fundraising for a family of four companies equipped to offer resilience and profit-for-purpose in the face of the existential threats that will drive huge new nature-based markets: climate meltdown, biodiversity collapse, and the national housing emergency. Two of the four are existing companies: Highlands Rewilding and MAKAR. The two entirely new

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Celebrating Our Trophy Sponsor, Dynam

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We’re delighted to have Dynam supporting the Highland Business Awards 2026 as our Trophy Sponsor, helping celebrate the achievement and ambition that each award represents.  Based in Inverness and Glasgow, Dynam is a branding and marketing agency that collaborates with organisations across Scotland and beyond, delivering creative solutions in branding, marketing strategy, content creation, design, digital marketing and web development.  Thank you to the

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Member of the Week: Mackenzie Construction

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This week, we’re shining a spotlight on Mackenzie Construction, a leading civil engineering and infrastructure contractor with a growing presence across the Highlands and Islands. Discover how the business is delivering complex projects, building local partnerships and investing in innovative solutions across the North. Mackenzie Construction was founded in Glasgow in 1980 and built on

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Inverness Airport announces new direct Frankfurt service with Discover Airlines

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New weekly service will connect the Highlands with Germany from June 2027. Inverness Airport is set to welcome a new airline and a brand-new international route next summer, as with Discover Airlines will operate a direct weekly service between Inverness and Frankfurt from 19 June 2027.  The new service will be the first-ever direct connection

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Growing demand highlights need for accessible mental health support

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As demand for mental health support continues to grow, Centred is calling on local communities and businesses to help ensure people can continue to access support when they need it, without a waiting list or referral. The Discovery College, an initiative of Centred Scotland, is the first service of its kind in the region, providing free,

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