Prime Property Auctions, a leading Scottish auction house, is set to pay out £350,000 in referral fees by the end of this month. The Glasgow-based firm, which offers listings on residential, commercial and land, was set up in 2022, with founders John Morris and Luis Guarin adopting the referral business model since the company’s
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Charities and social enterprises across Inverness and the Highlands are being invited to a dedicated funding event aimed at helping them secure resources and expertise to grow their community impact. Taking place on Thursday, 25th September at Eden Court, Inverness, the session will bring together local third sector organisations with key funders and support
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4G mast upgrades in Hawes, North Yorkshire, have gone live, improving connectivity across the Yorkshire Dales as part of the Shared Rural Network (SRN) programme upgrades. It’s the latest upgrade in the government’s £1.3 billion backed initiative to improve rural mobile coverage, with the North Yorkshire work providing greater mobile internet access in Hardraw,
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Hundreds of women across Scotland will continue to receive critical financial and emotional support thanks to a landmark merger between two long-established benevolent funds. The Royal Society for the Support of Women of Scotland (the Society) and the E Mclaren Fund for Indigent Ladies (the Fund) have united in a move that secures the
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The British Business Bank has reached the landmark milestone of £2.5bn of lending under its Growth Guarantee Scheme, with £127 million committed through 766 loans to small businesses in Scotland. Overall, 69% of lending has been delivered to businesses outside London and the South East, including 5% in Scotland. A wide range of industry
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Around 200 local primary schoolchildren are to receive a free Nairn County commemorative home shirt as part of a special community initiative being run by the football club. The club has produced a unique kit for this season to mark the 50th anniversary of winning the Highland League title for the only time and
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A growing number of people in Scotland struggling with mental health are being offered access to support thanks to a fairer pricing structure introduced by an innovative community interest company. Connections Counselling, founded earlier this year by trained counsellor Ian Nicholson-Kapasi (pictured above), is using a tiered-fee model designed to remove financial barriers and
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Peter Dowd MP hosted a roundtable in Parliament on flexible working. Attending the session, convened by the Policy Liaison Group on Workplace Wellbeing were Baroness Lister and a wide range of experts, employers, and campaigners. There was strong consensus that flexible working must not be viewed as a perk. It is central to how
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Almost 2,000 GBS UK students have today graduated from a range of courses, all aimed at making them valuable assets for employers from across a range of sectors. It comes a week after 1,500 GBS UK students from across Birmingham, Manchester and Leeds, graduated at Birmingham’s Symphony Hall. Students have graduated from Business, Healthcare,
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The government has partnered with Google Cloud to upskill 100,000 civil servants with digital and AI skills by 2030, modernising the public sector’s approach to technology as part of the Plan for Change. The training will help the UK government to implement and utilise advanced technologies and shake off decades of ‘ball and chain’
