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Empowering Local Talent: Caithness Business Fund Fuels GMG Energy’s Apprenticeship Success! GMG Energy hires its second Modern Apprentice – Lee Chapman from Thurso begins as an apprentice joiner A second Modern Apprentice has joined Sutherland renewable business GMG Energy following the success of its first apprentice, Finlay Mack ...

Caithness Business Fund celebrates 13 new jobs created through apprenticeship funding. Scottish Apprenticeship Week is a nationwide celebration of apprenticeships. It’s the time for everyone to shout about the benefits work-based learning brings to businesses, people and the economy.  This Scottish Apprenticeship Week (3 ...

West of Orkney Windfarm provides £50,000 to north Highland apprenticeship scheme. Businesses and apprentices in the north Highlands can look forward to developing new skills for a greener future, thanks to additional support from the West of Orkney Windfarm. The windfarm developer – which is planning a major offshore ...

Apprenticeships: A Cost Effective way for Businesses to Expand and Upskill Farr North Community Development Trust and Caithness Chamber of Commerce have teamed up to reach out to businesses in the northern Highlands to raise awareness of opportunities for receiving support when hiring apprentices. The Farr North Ap ...

The Farr North Apprenticeship Programme: A locally funded and delivered apprenticeship scheme designed to support businesses and young people in the communities of Farr. The Farr North Apprenticeship programme supports employers who take on Apprentices from Farr. We can provide £5000 per year for up to 3 years to the employer.The scheme is designed to help young people stay in the area to live and work. App ...

Focus North Conference 2024: FutureSkills Initiative to Enhance Apprenticeship Opportunities in North Highland Region. Caithness Chamber CEO, Trudy Morris, Speaking at eh Focus North Conference March 2024. FutureSkills on the agenda at Focus North Conference, with the announcement of £100,000 investment to boost new apprenticeship opportunities in the Nort ...

Caithness Business Fund Shines a Spotlight on Local Apprentices during Scottish Apprenticeship Week 2024, powering Skills Generation in the North Highlands. Kian Mackay, Hospitality Supervision and Leadership Apprentice, The Caithness Collection. Images by Niamh Ross Photography. In honour of Scottish Apprentice Week 2024, a national celebration of apprenticeships, Caithness Business Fund (CBF) ...

Caithness Business Fund Announces FutureSkills Apprenticeship Grant Scheme, with £100,000 of support from NRS Dounreay and the NDA. Trudy Morris, Executive Director of the Caithness Business Fund and CEO of Caithness Chamber of Commerce and Dave Calder, Head of Sustainability and Socio Economics at NRS Dounreay. Significant Investment Commitment from NRS Dounreay and the ...

Caithness Business Fund highlights a successful year supporting 10 business apprenticeships. The Caithness Business Fund is celebrating a successful year with the announcement it has provided support for 10 apprenticeships in the Caithness and North Sutherland Region in 2023. This is a significant milestone for the Fund, which has now p ...

Caithness Business Fund - Investing in local apprenticeships through employer grants. The Caithness Business Fund celebrates 10 years and highlights support for apprenticeship opportunities for local businesses. Since 2019 the Caithness Business Fund has helped to support ten apprentice opportunities for local businesses in Ca ...

NDA contribution helps Caithness Business Fund support businesses to reopen Through the second round of its COVID-19 support scheme, made possible thanks to a generous contribution of £100,000 from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA), the Caithness Business Fund has been able to support additional businesses ac ...

Caithness Business Fund supports small businesses throughout North Highlands Following a highly successful first funding round for its COVID-19 support scheme, enabled by a £100,000 contribution from Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), the Caithness Business Fund has been able to support a wide range of businesses acr ...

Caithness Business Fund launches second round of COVID-19 scheme thanks to NDA support Following the success of the first round of its COVID-19 Support Scheme, funded by Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), the Caithness Business Fund is delighted to announce that it will be opening a second round thanks to a contribution of a fu ...

COVID-19 business recovery funding now available from Caithness Business Fund The Caithness Business Fund is pleased to announce that, thanks to a generous contribution of £100,000 from Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL), it will be running a series of application rounds designed to support local businesses in their re ...

Caithness Business Fund offers grants of up to £5,000 to help employ an apprentice The Caithness Business Fund is now offering grants of up to £5,000 to help businesses in the region which are looking to employ an apprentice. Details of the criteria for these grants can be found here, and applicants are adv ...

Caithness Business Fund celebrates a successful 2018 The Caithness Business Fund is delighted to announce that it has had a successful 2018, with six grants totalling £28,000 given out to local businesses including Autoquip Motors, Coastline, The Highland Haven, Lindsey Gallagher Studio and Works ...

New tranche of funding for business fund Caithness Business Fund is delighted to announce that a new tranche of funding has been made available to enable it to support small businesses in Caithness as they set up and plan for growth. A further £26,090.85 has been provided by Bailli ...

Caithness Business Fund welcomes new applicants Caithness Business Fund is now open to a wider business audience and is encouraging new applications. The Fund, which was launched last September, was initially issuing grants of between £100 to £5,000 to young people starting a new busines ...

Young Enterprise the theme of AGM ‘Young Enterprise’ and ‘Entrepreneurship’ were the two overriding themes of North Highland Regeneration Fund’s Annual General Meeting held last Friday at the Pentland Hotel in Thurso. North Highland Regeneration Fund is a company ...

Lyth Wind Farm to bring Caithness jobs access fund Renewables developer Eurowind has announced the Lyth Jobs Access Fund worth around £30k a year to help Caithness people access training opportunities with North Highland College. The Lyth Jobs Access Fund will be used to ...

New Community Benefit Fund now Open for Business Baillie Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund has been set-up to disburse funds from the newly commissioned Baillie Wind Farm which is contributing £100,000 per annum for the 25 year life of the wind farm for the benefit of West Caithness. The Fu ...

Caithness Business Fund launched A new Fund has been launched to assist small businesses with their business growth and development and promote the economic growth of Caithness and North Sutherland. Caithness Business Fund was created after discussions between Caithness Cham ...

Business activity growth fastest Press and Journal Scottish business activity is growing at the fastest rate ever seen. The Bank of Scotland's latest monthly purchasing managers' index (PMI) highlights record activity levels and new work during August, and the sharpest rise ...

New publican toasts success of crowdfunding A mixologist may try to shake up some more investment to expand his company after successfully generating £20,000 through crowdfunding. Simon Collier will now kit out MRC’s Newmarket Bar in Thurso, using the money raised with help from the ...

Risk taking pays off in difficult times North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) is heartened by the results of a recent audit of its loan clients by Managing Agent, Caithness Chamber of Commerce, and encourages more businesses to take a look at whether the Fund can help with their dev ...

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