Events and workshops
Whatever your business needs, there’s a fully funded event near you.
Guides for business
Get your business off the ground.
Insights for growth
Articles, case studies and advice to help you expand your business.
Bookkeeping
This workshop aims to equip you with the knowledge and skills necessary to manage your finances and comply with regulatory and legal requirements through a relevant bookkeeping system.
Lanarkshire
2 Day Start Your Own Business
This is a 2 Day Workshop incorporating: Business Planning, Finance, Marketing & Market Research
Highland
Management Masterclass - Managing People
The programme of Management Masterclasses is aimed at individuals taking their first steps into management or supervisory roles.
Shetland
Facebook for Business (Intermediate) – DigitalBoost
This workshop is designed for people who want to deepen their understanding of how Facebook can be used to engage with their target audience in order to boost conversions.
Western Isles
Business Start-Up: Marketing
This workshop aims to help you identify your customers, understand your competitors and plan an effective marketing strategy.
Perth & Kinross
Prepare a business plan for growth
Every successful business regularly reviews its business plan to ensure it continues to meet its needs and responds to variations in the market, the economy and customer base.
Guide
Write a marketing plan
Writing a marketing plan helps you decide which customers to target and how to reach them. A marketing plan includes factors such as: deciding which customers to target; how to reach them and how to win their business.
Guide
Help and support available for your start up
If you run a start-up business as an entrepreneur, you may be able to get extra support if you’re a woman, over 50, disabled, from a minority ethnic group, young or on a low income.
Guide
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) - Our six top tips
The EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into force on 25th May 2018. Here are our six top tips on things SME’s need to be doing right now to prepare for GDPR.
Guide
Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS)
On 1 April 2017, HMRC launched the Alcohol Wholesaler Registration Scheme (AWRS) online look up service allowing those who purchase alcohol for onward sale or supply to check that their UK wholesaler is registered.
Guide
Preparing for the new £1 coin
The new pound coin will be introduced in March 2017 and businesses which handle cash will need to prepare this.
Guide
How Business Gateway helped Jordan and Grant grow their tech venture
Balloch based Ngage Technology is generating interest at home and overseas in its ground-breaking Smart Concierge hospitality app.
Case study
How Business Gateway helped Celia get her social enterprise moving
With support from Business Gateway, East Lothian social enterprise, Hey Girls, is now racing along.
Case study
How Business Gateway helped Alison create her start-up strategy
When Alison Brown was opening her cake and coffee shop in Newmilns she looked to Business Gateway for help.
Case study
Audiobook opens new market for local author
A former Royal Navy bomb disposal expert has launched his first audiobook.
Case study
Innovative ideas spark competition success for Stirling businesses
Two Stirling businesses pick up awards.
Case study
Chocolate business a tasty success
Rebecca Wilson launches a chocolate business following voluntary redundancy.
Case study
Highlights
Resource
Digital health check
Do you want to know which aspects of your digital operation need improvement? Take our quick digital health check to find out.
Case study
Investment set to help business uncork alcohol delivery market
Edinburgh business Drinkly has secured major investment to help it continue to grow.
Resource
Amplify – Cyber Resilience
Issue Five is dedicated to businesses who are faced with the challenge of trying to protect their business against an ever-changing cyber threat.
Resource
Your market
Understanding your market is one of the golden rules of business, so we’ve complied this list of over 100 different markets.
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