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
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 Ltd
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 [...]
Roslin Innovation Centre
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 [...]
Universities Scotland
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 [...]
Research Pools (Scottish Funding Council)
The research pooling initiative was created by the Scottish Funding Council to encourage researchers across Scottish higher education to pool their resources and respond to increasing international competition. For the majority of pools the original SFC funding has now come to an end, however the research pools continue to contribute Read more [...]
Living Wage Scotland
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 [...]
Scottish Business Pledge
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
Business Gateway is a business advice service which offers assistance to both entrepreneurial-minded people with ideas and also existing companies.
British Association of Women Entrepreneurs in Scotland
This is a peer group for women entrepreneurs who want to be challenged.
Impact Hub Inverness
Impact Hub prides itself on being globally connected but also locally rooted in each location.
EY Foundation
The EY Foundation is an independent registered charity, supporting young people facing barriers to employment and further education.
Northern Innovation Hub
The Northern Innovation Hub was developed to help SMEs in the Highland Council area to improve their businesses.
West Coast Accelerator
The goal is to help you enable, accelerate and succeed your business - you are the focus.
RBS Entrepreneur Accelerator
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
Scotland House can provide your business with a home away from home in London.
Can Do Places
Can Do Places are a nurturing network whereby workshops and events are put on to help you make things happen.
Desana
Shoal's mission is to create a co-working network that connects every entrepreneurial ecosystem in the world.
Gearing For Growth
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.
Princes Trust Scotland
The Prince’s Trust is Scotland’s leading youth charity which supports unemployed or underemployed young people into self-employment.
DSL Business Finance
DSL Business Finance provides loans to start-ups and growing businesses that cannot access loans from traditional sources.
Tontine
Tontine supports businesses in the creative industry, it can give you access to events, co-working spaces, workshops and conference rooms.
Community Shares Scotland
Community Shares Scotland can help you keep your local business alive through letting your community invest in your business.
CivTech
CivTech is a tech and innovation driven organisation that gives you the opportunity to work on new innovative products.
Scottish Enterprise High Growth Ventures
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
Wasps Studios operate and manage eighteen workspaces across Scotland for creatives.
Archangel Investors Ltd
Archangels is a business angel syndicate which focuses on early stage investing in Scotland.
FinTech 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 Limited
Discovery Investment Fund Limited is a venture capital business.
EOS Technology Investment Syndicate
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.
Federation of Small Businesses
The Federation of Small Businesses is a membership organisation and the biggest business group in the UK.
Just Enterprise
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.
Centre of Entrepreneurship, University of Dundee
The Centre of Entrepreneurship at the University of Dundee is a dedicated resource for university students, staff and recent graduates, providing them with highly transferable entrepreneurial skills and supporting with start-up and spin-out advice.
GrowBiz
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!
Rookie Oven
Rookie Oven fosters collaboration, co-operation and co-working for the tech industry in Glasgow, allowing you to be part of a world-class tech community right here in the city.
Virgin Start-Up
Virgin Start-Up can support entrepreneurs looking to start or scale their business with personal loans of between £500 and £25,000 per co-founder.
Dundee Social Enterprise Network
DSEN gives you access to a member led network that aims to support, promote, develop and represent social enterprises in Dundee.
LEADER
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
Scottish Business Network (SBN) is an independent international organisation for Scottish entrepreneurs and business leaders.
Talent Spark
Talent Spark is an online recruitment platform that helps bring start-ups and talent together.