Enterprise

If you're a Scottish resident aged 25 or over you can participate in a huge range of fully funded learning via Skills Development Scotland.

The Social Innovation Challenge (SIC) funds and supports innovators to kick-start solutions that tackle some of the most pressing challenges of our time. The programme is centred around a theme each year. Building on the legacy of COP26, the 2022 theme is: innovative solutions to climate change issues faced by rural communities in Scotland. 

CARES Conference 2022: Community Climate Action

Join Local Energy Scotland for their annual CARES conference, which will take place online. This year they’ll be looking at how communities can take climate action with the support of the Scottish Government’s Community and Renewable Energy Scheme (CARES).

Rural communities: Getting to grips with Making your Case

Targeted advice, basic principles, top tips and an opportunity to share experience with fellow rural communities on this key topic.

Getting to Grips with Making your Case for Funding will help you write clear, costed, and compelling applications that have everything they need, so the assessor understands your organisation, what you want to do, and why they should say yes.

Rural communities: Getting to grips with Fundraising

Targeted advice, basic principles, top tips and an opportunity to share experience with fellow rural communities on this key topic.

Rural Communities: Getting to grips with Stakeholder Management

Targeted advice, basic principles, top tips and an opportunity to share experience with fellow rural communities on this key topic.

Getting to Grips with Stakeholder Management will help you identify who your stakeholders are. It will help you make a simple plan of who is key to your organisation, and how to work with them to achieve more for the people and communities you support.

Rural Communities: Getting to grips with Strategy

Targeted advice, basic principles, top tips and an opportunity to share experience with fellow rural communities on this key topic.

Getting to Grips with Strategy will help you create a strategy that gives everybody involved with your organisation the confidence you’re clear about your purpose and have a plan for how to deliver it.

After a two-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Women's Enterprise Scotland are delighted to launch the Women's Enterprise Scotland Awards 2022, as part of their 10th Anniversary celebrations. 

Community Business Forum - Model Margins by Product Area

This Zoom discussion aims to give a guide to ‘typical’ margins that can be expected in different product areas.

All input and suggestions from participating community businesses welcome.

Getting to grips with Fundraising

 All organisations have to fundraise at some point. Working out the best way for your organisation to raise the money you need will save you time, and increase your chances of success.

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