Edinburgh wins Entrepreneurial City of the Year at Great British Entrepreneur Awards 2016!

On Tuesday 22 November our Chief Executive Liz McAreavey attended the 2016 Great British Entrepreneur Awards, held in London along with the Chamber's President Scott Black, Jim Galloway (City of Edinburgh Council), Robin Lyles (Lyles Sutherland Ltd), Russell Dalgleish (Exolta Capital Partners), Kirstee MacBeth (AKA Scotland), Stuart Wallace (Forth Ports), Mark Hallan (Scottish Enterprise), Peter Proud (Cortex Worldwide Ltd) and Deidre Brock MP.

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Cornerstone recognised as top provider at SQA awards

Leading Scottish social care charity, Cornerstone, has been recognised as one of the country’s top training providers at an awards ceremony in Edinburgh. The charity has been delivering SQA Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs) in Care and Management to its staff since 1995, enabling them to better carry out their work with vulnerable people and ensure they are compliant with rules set out by the Scottish Social Services Council (SSSC). Cornerstone was recognised with the SQA Star Award for Lifelong Learning (Centre) after the judges were impressed that 90% of Cornerstone employees believed their SVQ helped them to provide a better quality of service to their clients.

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Mearns & Company awarded Gold Standard for seventh time!

On Wednesday 16 November, Mearns & Company was presented with the Gold Standard for Independent Financial Advice at a ceremony in the House of Commons. The award was presented to Margaret Mearns and Malcolm Steel by Sir David Amess MP, marking the seventh time we have been honoured with this award.

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Scottish Enterprise Collaboration Prize Toolkit – LESS THAN 2 WEEKS TO GO!

The Collaboration Prize 2016/17 is now open for businesses in Scotland with aspirations to collaborate. The aim of the Collaboration Prize is to encourage firms to think collaboratively and pitch an idea for a new collaborative enterprise that will help them to access new markets. This could be a new sector or a geographical market including international markets. To be eligible the business or consortium must be based in Scotland, have an innovative idea to implement by setting up a consortium co-operative and have identified other potential members for the consortium.

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Go Awards Scotland 2016/17

Capital Document Solutions is delighted to have been nominated as a finalist in the GO Best Service Award (Suppliers working with the Scottish public sector category in the Government Opportunities (GO) Excellence in Public Procurement Awards Scotland 2016/17. Capital is Scotland’s leading provider of photocopiers, printers and scanners to the public and private sectors.

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Advertising guru receives honorary fellowship

AN award-winning advertising copywriter has received an honorary fellowship from Edinburgh Napier University. Susie Henry was the first woman creative director to have her name on the door of a London ad agency.

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Contribution of volunteers recognised at Scottish Heritage Angel Awards

A project to collect and record bricks, the restoration of a WWI memorial in Orkney, and a television channel run by young people to highlight an archaeological dig, were amongst the winners revealed at the second annual Scottish Heritage Angels Awards, held in Edinburgh on Tuesday 18 October.

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Business in the Community Scotland’s annual Awards Gala to take place on 28 June

Business in the Community Scotland’s annual Awards Gala will take place on 28 June in the spectacular surroundings of Prestonfield in Edinburgh.

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Countdown to our Annual Awards

With only two working days left until the Edinburgh Business Awards 2015 excitement is at fever pitch. This year the #ECCAwards will take place at the Sheraton Grand Hotel and Spa at 7pm Monday 2nd March 2015. The Awards have once again seen a significant increase in the overall number…

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