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From the Highlands to Sydney: Scottish tutoring takes an international stage

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A new professional organisation founded in the Highlands is taking the Scottish tutoring sector onto the international stage this month, with Tutors Alliance Scotland (TAS) Founder and President Karen Simpson travelling to Sydney as an invited guest to represent tutors from across Scotland. Karen will attend the Australian Tutors Association’s Annual Conference in Sydney on […]

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Mikeysline scales new fundraising heights

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Mikeysline supporters and staff have successfully completed a gruelling challenge, raising more than £55,000 for the charity’s local mental health and suicide prevention services. The Icelandic Lava & Light Trek saw 15 fundraisers walk 58km over three days through challenging volcanic terrain, taking in waterfalls, lava fields, fjords and geysers. Their achievement highlights remarkable determination,

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Inside Stories at MAKAR: Building a different future for Highland housing

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Chamber members went behind the scenes at MAKAR Ltd this week as part of our latest Inside Stories event, gaining a fascinating insight into the Highland business’s approach to housebuilding, sustainable construction and local manufacturing. Set amongst the Torbreck woodland just outside Inverness, MAKAR welcomed members into its workshop to see first-hand how its homes

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Carr’s Flour Mills named headline sponsor of High Life Highland’s inaugural World Shortbread Championships as spectator tickets go on sale

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High Life Highland has unveiled a Scottish baking institution as the headline sponsor of the first-ever World Shortbread Championships, as spectator tickets officially go on sale for the landmark event. Kirkcaldy-based Carr’s Flour Mills, whose milling heritage stretches back almost 200 years, has signed on as headline sponsor of the inaugural Championships, which will take

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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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