Left to Right: Jennifer McLaren, Donald McLaren,Claire Stone and Alasdair Miller The Newark Trust, a newly-established charity to effect positive change in Inverclyde, has been launched with a major £100k donation from McLaren Packaging to kick start its vision to improve the lives, health, and welfare of people in Inverclyde, creating opportunities for a positive […]
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Last night, supporters of the charity StreetSmart gathered at Parrillan near London Bridge to mark an historic milestone for the annual fundraiser that tackles homelessness across the UK. For the first time in its 25-year history the campaign topped the £1 million mark with diners each contributing £1 per table during the Christmas period at
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A wide range of businesses have secured a place on a major eight-figure framework aimed at safeguarding social housing and public buildings and their occupiers. This follows a competitive process conducted by the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) to invite a pool of businesses to tender for a place on its Fire Safety framework, known as FS2.
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The British Business Bank’s Investment Fund for Scotland has agreed £5 million of deals to support the growth of small businesses, just six months since the fund was launched to improve access to finance and provide a boost to the Scottish economy. The milestone comes as five new debt funding deals, managed by FSE Group,
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WomenWiseData (WWD) has launched a co-branded mentoring programme with Investigo to encourage women into data roles and promote female voices in the data community. A Women in Data report revealed that the proportion of women in the data and analytics space dropped to 20% since the pandemic. WomenWiseData aims to tackle this issue by bringing
North Highland Initiative (NHI), has opened applications for its 2024 grant programme, having supported 90 grant applications and awarded over £270,000 to community projects across the North Highlands in 2023. Covering a wide geographic spread including the islands of Lewis and Harris, Shetland and Orkney, Caithness, Sutherland, Ross & Cromarty, Wester Ross and Easter Ross,
Bosses that don’t comply with the gender pay reporting law should be fined, urged the Trade Union Congress (TUC), the largest trade union body in the UK. The deadline for gender pay reporting passed on April 4th, requiring organisations with over 250 employees to legally publish their gender pay figures. Despite the reporting law being
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(L) Rhona Bree, Senior Investment & Portfolio Manager,and (R) Fraser Lusty, Managing Director Equity Gap, the Edinburgh-based angel investment syndicate, has been named as the most frequent backer of women-owned businesses in Scotland, according to a new report by Young Company Finance. Between 2018 and 2023, Equity Gap backed 12 equity investment rounds in female-led
Chika Inatimi, Christie Wanless and Amy Deans of FrontLounge, with Megan McKay from Little Peril Studio A Dundee charity changing lives through a clothes-making qualification has launched a project to turn Scottish designers’ waste material into fashion. Through Front Lounge, 34 learners have completed the SQA-accredited Kindred Clothing qualification since its launch in 2020, with
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(L) Wendy Dean, CEO of Strategi Solutions & (R) VictoriaHarte, Managing Director at Axia Solutions Pioneering Staffordshire-based business consultancy, Strategi Solutions has joined forces with Axia Solutions, Training and Apprenticeship provider, to launch the first Level 7 Senior Leader Apprenticeship aimed at women, designed to ignite female talent and unlock their higher potential. The programme
