A roadshow offering marketing and finance advice to business owners will visit Inverness, Dingwall and Thurso this month.
DSL Business Finance (DSL), which recently launched the Scottish Microfinance Fund (SMF), has joined forces with Grow Your Business Club to deliver the free workshops.
The two-hour events will include a 90-minute session on marketing with staff from the business club and a presentation on financial advice from DSL’s Highlands loans officer Murray Marshall.
Mr Marshall said: “There is such a wealth of small business activity across the Highlands; we want to go to where these entrepreneurs are, making it easier for them to get access to advice and support which might help them to grow their business and realise their ambitions.
“These workshops have been specially designed to help people address two of their main business challenges: finding customers and finding finance. And we’re doing this in a way that helps them meet other business people at the same time.”
The first workshop starts at 10am on Tuesday May 23 at the Safety Training Solutions Centre, Dingwall, with the Inverness event taking place the same day at the Royal Highland Hotel, from 3pm. The Thurso meeting starts at 4pm on Wednesday May 24 in the Pentland Hotel.