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Stay up to date with the latest news affecting rural business owners including, funding opportunities and helpful tips from the GrowBiz team.
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Highland Start Up Grant
If you're a start up based in the Highland Council area you may be eligible for this grant of £1000. Find out more here.
REDS Business Services Showcase
GrowBiz initiative REDS has launched its first Business Services Showcase to support rural micro businesses and self employed who provide business services.
Environmental Placement Programme
Get help to recruit a student or graduate to work on an environmentally focused project.
Geovation Accelerator Programme
This programme has been designed to help founders of start ups grow their business and solve real world challenges using geospatial and property data. The current open call ends Friday 29 August 2025.
Historic Environment Grants
This programme is to support projects that closely relate to and will benefit a Scottish historic environment asset.
Team Tips for Stress Awareness Month
April is Stress Awareness Month, and since our team are contractors with their own businesses, they know that being self-employed can present challenges that make us feel anxious or tense. So we asked what works for them when it comes to limiting stress…
Supporting our volunteers running local Business Associations across the Cairngorms National Park
Supporting our volunteers running local Business Associations across the Cairngorms National Park
Advice and support is available if you're struggling to make ends meet.
Advice and resources from Perth & Kinross Council
Client Survey Results on the cost of living crisis and the vulnerability of rural communities
Our recent survey has revealed that businesses and social enterprises in rural Scotland are experiencing a crisis of confidence in their futures. Business owners are struggling with a ‘perfect storm’ of increased costs and reduced turnovers, further exacerbated by the additional challenges of operating in a rural area.
Jackie Brierton appointed as an entrepreneur-in-residence at SRUC
The appointment is part of the SRUC’s drive to become an enterprise university at the heart of the sustainable natural economy.
GrowBiz on Tour!
GrowBiz went ‘on tour’ last month to deliver a 2-day session to support and enhance part of The Prince’s Trust 12 week team programme.
Celebrating 15 Years of Rural Enterprise Support
This June, GrowBiz is celebrating its 15th birthday, after starting in 2007 to provide community-based support to small businesses and the self-employed
12 Sustainability Tips for 2022
Advice from the GrowBiz team
Did you know that each GrowBiz newsletter contains an easy-to-implement sustainability tip? They could be useful for your work or home life or both.
Time Management and Productivity Tips
Advice from the GrowBiz team
Time Management – a skill as critical to start-up businesses as it is to established entrepreneurs and one that you should regularly revisit to reshape your strategies as your priorities and the demands on your time change.
GrowBiz Scotland - Our Stories
GrowBiz Scotland - Our Stories
2022 is Scotland’s Year of Stories, providing an opportunity to celebrate Scotland’s history, culture and communities. The Scottish rural and island economy is packed with innovative, vibrant businesses with stories to tell.