Police seize £375,000 drugs haul in Glasgow raid pressandjournal.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from pressandjournal.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Media release: Enterprising rural women celebrate success of business creation course
A BUSINESS creation project designed to develop enterprise skills and encourage business start-up ideas amongst women based in rural areas of Scotland has just finished its first pilot in three target areas.
The project, which was delivered by Women’s Enterprise Scotland (WES) and Development Trusts Association Scotland (DTAS), ran in the Small Isles, New Cumnock in East Ayrshire and Liddesdale in the Scottish Borders.
It took place over a ten- week period, with weekly sessions held by zoom for 1.5 hours each week, working with a combined cohort of around 30 women.
She added: The concept of building indicates to me a foundation being the basis of a process. This fund, half a million pounds, is for new initiatives. Initiatives that must be accessible to all in the community and free of charge. If the funding is to be used only for one-off new initiatives, what will be the long-term impact of that spend? If the funding is used for new initiatives, that are going to create ongoing groups that cannot charge for attendance, what happens when the funding runs out? Will those groups have the capacity to, as they set up a new initiative and run it, apply for funding to cover ongoing costs or start to charge attendees? Or does that new initiative just stop and put those who have been attending in a position of loss?
Boost for rural businesswomen in Liddesdale thesouthernreporter.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from thesouthernreporter.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.