EVENTS: Food and Drink TechHUB Business Support Service

The Food and Drink TechHUB Business Support Service would like to invite you to attend on online webinar on Investment and crowdfunding to grow your business. The free event will take place via Microsoft Teams on Monday 20th February 2023 at 4pm-5pm. Investment and Crowdfunding Webinar

This 1 hour webinar will offer practical insights on how to secure investment to help your food and drink business grow. The session will give you an overview of how to assess your investment needs, some of the funding routes available beyond grants and loans, and how to manage the process to achieve a successful outcome. Whether you are considering starting a new business, preparing to invest in new equipment or scaling up to meet increasing demand, this session will give you practical insights on how to secure investment to help your growth ambitions. At the event you will hear from Alex McDonald and Struan Mackie from North Point Distillery who have gone through the journey of securing investment to grow their business. The session will include an overview of

• Crowdfunding,
• Seed Enterprise investment Scheme (SEIS)
• International Investment
• The tools you can use to help get investment
• Different terms that should be understood

The Food and Drink TechHUB Business Support Service would like to invite you to attend in-person Innovation Workshop. The free event will take place on Friday 24th February 2023 at 9.30am-12.30pm at An Lochran, Inverness TechHUB Innovation Workshop

This interactive workshop will give businesses an overview of the advice, support and funding available around innovation that is relevant to the food and drink sector. If you are looking to innovate within your business, develop a new innovative piece of equipment or technology or collaborate with an academic institution/partner then this is the workshop for you. The workshop will include presentation from the following organisation who can provide support to help you on your innovation journey.

• Highland and Islands Enterprise (HIE)
• Interface
• Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP)
• Innovate UK/Knowledge Transfer Network
• CENSIS
• National Manufacturing Institute Scotland (NMIS)

The workshop will also include an interactive session led by CENSIS which will provide a global perspective on current challenges and technology trends in the food and drink industry, discuss the current challenges and unmet needs F&D businesses face in the highlands and develop a roadmap outlining what businesses would like to see in the physical Food and Drink TechHUB Innovation centre.