As a way to showcase and promote the vibrant creativity of Perth & Kinross to both visitors and locals, Visit Scotland Perth iCentre has given Perthshire Artisans the opportunity to showcase members’ products in their High Street window.

Perthshire Artisans is a curated platform of diverse creative businesses from across the region, launched by enterprise support organisation GrowBiz in 2020. It will be showcasing four different displays from October to December 2023.

GrowBiz, Scotland’s rural enterprise organisation, has helped provide a boost to the wellbeing of Perthshire business owners with a series of specialised mental health workshops delivered over the past twelve months. Five WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) workshops have taken place in community venues across a number of the region’s rural locations.

With National Mentoring Day happening next month, it’s a good time to consider whether you can contribute to the Perth & Kinross rural business community by volunteering as a GrowBiz mentor. Mentoring is a positive way to share experience you’ve gained, develop your communication skills, gain confidence in guiding others, build a network of rewarding relationships and give back by helping someone unlock their full potential.

Are you self employed or running a small business in rural Perth and Kinross? Or would you like to get a social enterprise off the ground? GrowBiz is teaming up with The Kinross-shire Partnership to provide enterprise support to anyone in the Kinross-shire area looking to start or grow a business.

A food and drink themed GrowBiz XChange networking event in August will feature Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne as a special guest speaker.

Lucinda made a career as a chef and food scientist, developing a fresh gluten free loaf to help people with diet restrictions. She went on to found Genius Foods in 2008, which is now a major player in the production of ‘free-from’ products, with listings in all major retailers here and across the globe. She is currently Chair of Scotland Food & Drink and is a Women’s Enterprise Scotland Ambassador.