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Working with The Lens uncovers ideas that transforms how you do business, providing you with investment ready prototypes to scale and grow. By developing intrapreneurial skills and mindsets, your people will fulfil their creative potential, embracing challenges and realising opportunities. The Lens is a platform for innovation that powers a Read more [...]

Can Do Crieff is a community driven co-working space built by and relying on the contribution of its members. Our members are business owners, entrepreneurs, self-employed or remote workers who have 24/7 access to the space for a monthly membership fee. Can Do Crieff exists to create an affordable, comfortable Read more [...]

Intelligent creative communications. Spreng Thomson help ambitious and entrepreneurial businesses to achieve their goals. Their expertise includes brand building, crisis communications, issues management, media, media training, campaigns and internal communications. Spreng Thomson organise and manage workshops for clients ranging from media training to building your brand.

Tech Scotland Advocates (TSA) is a chapter of the Global Tech Advocate community – a private sector-led network of more than 10,000 Advocates who operate in the vanguard of the smart economy, in tech hubs across the world. TSA is a grassroots organisation, mobilising the power of individuals who are Read more [...]

Investing Women is a growing community of women angel investors; which also supports female founders through their AccelerateHER programme. Investing Women’s holistic approach is seeing an increase in the number of female investors and scalable female founded businesses; delivering diversity and economic growth. Investing Women’s flagship events include the one Read more [...]

WeDO Scotland is an exclusive support and networking membership organisation providing growth acceleration and peer-to-peer learning for Scotland’s most ambitious entrepreneurs & business leaders. Their focus is on promoting business growth and strengthening competitive advantage. WeDO supports their members through facilitating introductions, giving guidance and collaborating with one another. Members Read more [...]

Co-operative Development Scotland (CDS) is the arm of Scottish Enterprise working in partnership with Highlands and Islands Enterprise that supports company growth through collaborative and employee ownership business models. It also works in partnership with other organisations to support the development of community co-operatives such as renewable energy and broadband. Read more [...]

Roslin Innovation Centre forms part of an exciting new £30 million multi-purpose and multi occupancy development at the centre of the University of Edinburgh’s Easter Bush Campus. Connecting clinical teaching, research and commercialisation in a space designed to inspire innovation and collaboration, Roslin Innovation Centre attracts bioscience businesses keen to Read more [...]

All of Scotland’s 19 higher education institutions is set up to work with businesses and organisations, collaborating with around 20,000 Scottish businesses every year and another 10,000 from outside of Scotland in Research and Innovation. Scotland’s Universities have an excellent track record in successful commercialisation of world-class research; they can Read more [...]

Living Wage accreditation celebrates employers that choose to go further than the government minimum. The Living Wage employer mark is awarded to Scottish employers as a symbol of responsible business practice. Living Wage accreditation celebrates employers that choose to go further than the government minimum. Research shows that paying the Read more [...]

The Scottish Business Pledge is a values-led partnership between Government and business. It is a shared ambition of boosting productivity, competitiveness, sustainable employment, and workforce engagement and development. It is built on a voluntary code of business practice which you can use to guide and boost the future development of Read more [...]

Business Gateway is a business advice service which offers assistance to both entrepreneurial-minded people with ideas and also existing companies.

This is a peer group for women entrepreneurs who want to be challenged.

Impact Hub prides itself on being globally connected but also locally rooted in each location.

The Northern Innovation Hub was developed to help SMEs in the Highland Council area to improve their businesses.

The goal is to help you enable, accelerate and succeed your business - you are the focus.

This fintech hub provides free space and expertise within the Entrepreneurial Hub at Royal Bank of Scotland HQ for innovative fintech entrepreneurs and startups.

Scotland House can provide your business with a home away from home in London.

Can Do Places are a nurturing network whereby workshops and events are put on to help you make things happen.

Shoal's mission is to create a co-working network that connects every entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world.

Adopt an Intern is an organisation which supports all sectors to access graduate talent of all ages, skill sets and backgrounds, including those returning to education.

Gearing for Growth was established to work with business leaders and companies to help them to realise their full potential and that of their business and team.

The Prince’s Trust is Scotland’s leading youth charity which supports unemployed or underemployed young people into self-employment.

DSL Business Finance provides loans to start-ups and growing businesses that cannot access loans from traditional sources.

Tontine supports businesses in the creative industry, it can give you access to events, co-working spaces, workshops and conference rooms.

New businesses at the early stages of their journey are offered engagement with the High Growth Ventures team as they support innovation driven enterprises from start up to scale up.

Wasps Studios operate and manage eighteen workspaces across Scotland for creatives.

Archangels is a business angel syndicate which focuses on early stage investing in Scotland.

FinTech Scotland works with the objective of growth and employment to secure Scotland’s place as one of the leading fintech centres.

Discovery Investment Fund Limited is a venture capital business.

Based in St. Andrews, Scotland, the EOS Technology Investment Syndicate (EOS) is an entrepreneurial led group of private angel investors who review new investment opportunities.

Just enterprise is a consortium formed from Scotland’s key social enterprise support agencies. Collectively, they provide expert start-up, business support and business recovery to organisations across Scotland.

Lanarkshire Enterprise Services is an enterprise trust that aims to provide specialty business support to help businesses succeed.

The Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) is looking to support you, Scotland’s top young researchers, creative talent, future business and public leaders, through its research awards, enterprise programmes and the RSE Young Academy of Scotland.

Calling all Perthshire based business owners and self-employed entrepreneurs! GrowBiz is the perfect place to be if you’re running a small business in Perthshire and you're looking for foolproof advice or just a friendly bunch of like-minded people!

DSEN gives you access to a member led network that aims to support, promote, develop and represent social enterprises in Dundee.

A unique approach to develop business support to rural communities, in other words a helping hand for your rural business to flourish and help advance your local community through business.

Scottish Business Network (SBN) is an independent international organisation for Scottish entrepreneurs and business leaders.

Santander helps you get access to funding for your business or even for your first employee, also running Entrepreneurship Awards.

Par equity can provide your small business with investment and capital to grow, they look specifically for innovative businesses with novel ideas and huge aspirations.