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, […]
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
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 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
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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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 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
Grant funding will help children and young people after a loss Children’s charity The Archie Foundation has secured new funding towards the salary costs of two of its bereavement team, amid increased demand for local children who have suffered a loss. Archie’s Child Bereavement Service provides specialist support to youngsters across the north of Scotland,
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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
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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