Social Security Scotland boosts Dundee and Glasgow economies and supports local enterprises
Since being set up in 2018, Social Security Scotland has established itself as a major employer in both Glasgow and Dundee. We currently employ people in over 3500 full time equivalent posts, offering secure...
Fit for Business for 2023? Supporting your employees with Private Medical Insurance
I think it is fair to say that it feels that winter has finally arrived across most parts of the country and regardless of the season, the service I’m highlighting will be just as...
Why it pays to pay attention to your workplace pension
As an employer you will be fully aware of your responsibilities under the auto enrolment legislation after all the requirements commenced in 2012 and became fully operative from 2019 for businesses to provide, administrate...
Developing the financial planning workforce
Many young people are led to believe that they must go to university if they wish to gain a career in financial services. Working alongside schools at a grassroots level, we have worked hard...
Business recovery and growth under pressure
The cost of doing business is in crisis mode and is undermining Scottish business recovery and growth, according to the latest findings from a leading Scottish business survey by the Scottish Chambers of Commerce...
How women can plan their financial future
At a time when cost of living is skyrocketing, it has never been more important to be on top of your finances.
The pandemic has witnessed a change in awareness, with more of us thinking...
Kilmac ensuring the preservation of jobs
They began building a Tayside civil engineering contracting business with a £20 million annual turnover from their kitchens.
Now Kilmac founding directors Athole McDonald and Richard Kilcullen are laying the foundations for an Employee Ownership Trust...
CMS secures investment from Newable Capital
CMS Holdings UK Ltd (Parent company of Commercial Maintenance Services UK Ltd) has secured investment from Newable Capital Ltd to further accelerate growth.
Newable Capital is the SME investment arm of Newable Limited; the wider...
Women-led business angel network receives funding to expand its membership +
Women-led angel group Mint Ventures has received funding from Scottish Enterprise and the Scottish Government’s Scottish Technology Ecosystem Fund (STEF) for a series of roadshows to encourage more women to become angel investors, and...
Where is Britain’s Best Bootstrapper in the Business Awards’ trophy cabinet?
The UK Business Awards industry should recognise the entrepreneur ‘bootstrapper’ says Professor Colin Mason of Glasgow University who has studied the financing of small and medium-sized firms for over 30 years. A prize for...