Welcome to this round up of the latest free support for your business.
Business Support.
Business Gateway Stirling -?Meet Our Advisers Rural 1-2-1 Appointments
Working with Stirling’s Rural Business Hubs these one-to-one meetings are an opportunity for businesses based in and around Rural Stirling to discuss their business with a Business Adviser.
Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise?-?Tr ustee Recruitment
Are you passionate about your community? On behalf of charities across Stirling Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise are looking for trustees. By joining a Board as a trustee, you are at the heart of the decision-making process and can make a real difference. Stirlingshire Voluntary Enterprise would also support you in your journey, including training.
Business events.
Scotland Food and Drink -?Alcohol Advertising & Promotion in Scotland - Consultation | 31 Jan 11.00 - 12.00 | Online
Join Scotland Food and Drink to explore the Scottish Government consultation and possible restrictions on advertising and promoting alcohol in Scotland.
Strathard Business Forum | Focus on Recruitment | 7 Feb 18.09 - 19.30 | St Marys, Strathard?
Join this local networking event with this session's topic focusing on recruitment.?
STEP -?How to Start Your Own?Business? | 7 Feb 10.00 - 11.30 | Stirling Enterprise Park
An introduction on how to start up your own business and be your own boss.
Forth Valley Social Enterprise Network (FVSEN) -?Social Enterprise Network | 9?Feb?- 10.00?- 12.00 | Online
FV SEN is a network of social enterprises working across Stirling, Falkirk and Clackmannanshire, that believe social enterprise can transform the economic, environmental, social, and cultural life within the Forth Valley.
Mint Ventures?-?Making Angel Investment Accesible for Women | 14 Feb?12:00 - 14:00 |?Stirling University Innovation Park
Mint Ventures is a Scottish-based women-led angel investment group on a mission to make angel investing more accessible to women by educating?both women and men?from all business backgrounds how they can support more women to get involved.
STEP -?Product Photography Training? | 16 Feb 09.30 - 12.30 | Stirling Enterprise Park, FK7 7RP
If you take pictures for your business, then you will want to ensure that they are professional looking and stand out from the crowd by being well-composed, correctly lit, edited and presented in the right way.
Forth Valley Chamber of Commerce -?The Hub Cub | 10 Feb 08.30 - 10.30 | Scion House, Stirling?
The Hub Club will provide the opportunity for you to gain insightful and practical advice to help manage the challenges that we face every day in our businesses through discussing a wide range of business topics. The facilitated networking event will also ensure everyone has an opportunity to introduce their business, what their current areas of focus are and anything you could use help with.
Forth Valley Chamber of Commerce?-?Let's Network at The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum | 24 Feb 08.30 - 10.00 |?The Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum?
Join Forth Valley Chmaber for their traditional in-person networking session?at Fellow Chamber Member The Stirling Smith Art Gallery and Museum.
Funding.
PRS for Music Foundation?-?The Open Fund for Organisations ?***Closes 13 Feb The Open Fund for Organisations?supports new music projects led by promoters, talent development organisations, venues, festivals, curators and large performance groups*. Projects must involve creating, performing and promoting new music and enable songwriters, composers, solo artists, bands, producers and performers of all backgrounds to develop creatively and professionally.
The Princes Trust -?Test My Business Idea Grant If you've completed the Prince's Trust Explore Enterprise Course, you can apply for a Test My Business Idea grant of up to ￡500 to help you try a new business idea.
When you first contact the Trust, you'll be paired with a caseworker who will get to know you and your business idea through some initial induction meetings. You'll complete some documents to get set up in the system, then you can enroll on the Prince's Trust Explore Enterprise Course.
The Explore Enterprise Course includes 7 sessions that cover the basics of self-employment, HMRC and finance, pricing and sales, marketing, networking, cashflows, and business plans. Read more about the Explore Enterprise Course.
Falkirk Council -?Digital Development Fund The Falkirk Digital Development Grant provides businesses in the Falkirk Council area with financial support to help them develop and implement new digital systems to improve business performance and enable business growth. This is a discretionary funding programme. The fund can cover up to 50% of a business’s digital expenditure, to a maximum of ￡10,000. The minimum eligible project value is ￡2,000, so the minimum grant amount you can receive is ￡1,000.
VocTech Trust -?Activate Grant Fund 2023 ?***Closes 8 Feb VocTech Activate provides grants of between ￡30,000 and ￡60,000 for projects lasting up to 12 months to support?the development of new ideas that use digital tools and approaches to transform how people gain skills for work.
Energy Savings Trust -?Business Chargepoint Funding? To support the uptake of electric vehicles across Scotland, Transport Scotland has made grant funding available through Energy Saving Trust to help organisations install electric vehicle charging infrastructure on their premises.
Funding is currently available for chargepoints for sole use by occupants, staff and visitors. You can access this funding if:
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NHS Forth Valley -?Food Activity Grants Funds of up to ￡400 are available to?community groups and organisations who are interested in setting up food activities across NHS Forth Valley.
This includes opportunities where people can share or increase their food and budgeting skills such as cooking groups, supper clubs or lunch clubs.
The Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) -?Feasibility Funding ?***Closes 9 Feb 2023 The IBioIC's Feasibility Funding provide members with the opportunity to tap into the expertise of Scotland’s academics to assist with a biotech-focused proof of concept study to support a future funding application for a larger-scale research work programme.
Feasibility projects should focus on innovative applications of industrial biotechnology and address a real market need or commercial opportunity through collaborative knowledge exchange and research between industry members and at least one of Scotland’s talented higher education institution (HEI) research teams.
Theo Moorman Trust for Weavers -?Grants ? ***Closes 01 March 2024 Trustees make grants of between ￡500 and ￡5000 to enable weavers to:?
- purchase special equipment to pursue their craft in a creative manner.?
- enjoy a sabbatical period to reassess the creative nature of their work.?
- undertake a specific project or projects in furtherance of their craft which might not normally be possible.?
- develop the craft in any other way in which the Trustees, at their absolute discretion, think fit.?
Scottish Enterprise -?Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund ?***Closes?31 March 2026 The Low Carbon Manufacturing Challenge Fund helps Scottish manufacturing companies that wish to pursue business growth by developing low carbon products, processes or services. This may be achieved through pure research and development (R&D), capital investment or environmental aid support.
sportscotland -?Sports Facilities Fund ?***Closes 01 April 2023 Sports Facilities Fund (SFF) supports capital projects that create or improve places where people take part in sports and physical activity. Supported projects?provide opportunities for people to get involved in and participate in sports & physical activity.?
Awards of up to ￡100,000 are available for sports facility projects within clubs and?communities, schools and?education or performance sports environments.??
Foundation Scotland -?Investing in Enterprise Fund The Investing in Enterprise Fund offers?blended grant and loan investment?to eligible social enterprises, community organisations and charities. The fund can invest between ￡10,000 and ￡250,000 per organisation; up to 25% (￡62,500) of this can be in the form of a non-repayable grant and the remainder a repayable loan.
Scottish Enterprise -?Regional Selective Assistance Funding RSA funding is designed to support projects that will help create jobs and a greener economy. If your company is in need of at least ￡100,000 in grant funding, check your eligibility and start the application process today.
Scottish Enterprise -?Scottish Land Fund The Scottish Land Fund supports rural and urban communities to become more resilient and sustainable through the ownership and management of land and land assets.
The fund offers grants of between ￡5,000 and ￡1 million to help communities take ownership of the land and buildings that matter to them, as well as practical support to develop their aspirations into viable projects.
It is funded by the Scottish Government and delivered in partnership with The National Lottery Community Fund and Highlands and Islands Enterprise.
Scottish Enterprise -?SMART: SCOTLAND Grant This is a research and development (R&D) grant for small and medium-sized businesses that aims to support high risk, highly ambitious projects. It covers conducting feasibility studies to show how ideas could work in the real world and supports activities that have a commercial endpoint.
Scottish Government -?Zero Emission Mobility Innovation Fund The Zero Emission Mobility Innovation Fund (ZEMIF) provides discretionary grants to Scottish-based companies to help them manufacture and deploy components, systems and vehicles that will help to reduce the carbon emissions of heavy duty vehicles (HDVs) in Scotland and globally.
Perth and Kinross Council?-?Green Recovery Capital Development Grant Through the Green Recovery Capital Development Grant, Perth and Kinross Council has made funding of up to ￡25,000 available for businesses that were financially affected by COVID-19 and now want to make capital investments in the Perth and Kinross area.?
Falkirk Council -?Business Resilience Fund This fund offers grants of between ￡1000 and ￡10,000 to businesses in the Falkirk council area that need to rethink their model of delivery or refocus their efforts to help them grow.
Falkirk Council -?Environmental Improvement Fund Grants of up to ￡5,000 are available for businesses located in the Falkirk Council area to help them make environmental improvements in the local community through projects, clean-up events and prevention measures.
Screen Scotland?-?Funding Screen Scotland is aiming to support the?growth of the screen sector through increased funding and support for film and television production, an increase in specialist staff and further investment in skills, festivals, audiences and education.
Open funds include:?
Creative Scotland -?Open Fund for Sustaining Creative Development ?***Closes 8 Feb Funding of between ￡1,000 and ￡100,000 is available for organisations.?You may be thinking about new ways of working. If you aim to reach people with your work in performance spaces, for example, you may be looking at new ways to achieve this. You may be looking at ways to stabilise your existing activity. You may be reimagining what you do, and as part of this process, you may wish to take creative risks.
This fund is designed to support you to sustain your practice in a changing world. We are asking you to tell us what you want to do, and how it will help you and/or others in the months and years to come.
This update is created by STEP in collaboration with Business Gateway Stirling to bring you?a single source of business support and information relevant to your business. If there is additional information you would like to see included please contact [email protected].?