{"id":464576,"date":"2025-10-01T02:02:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464576\/"},"modified":"2025-10-01T02:02:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T02:02:14","slug":"scot-gov-pledges-1-1m-to-under-represented-entrepreneurs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/464576\/","title":{"rendered":"Scot gov pledges \u00a31.1m to under-represented entrepreneurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Projects are being rolled out across the country to help more women and people from under-represented groups start their own businesses.<\/p>\n<p>Fourteen organisations will share more than \u00a31 million of funding from the Scottish Government\u2019s Pathways Pre-Start Fund to deliver a range of initiatives providing practical support ranging from workshops to care vouchers.<\/p>\n<p>The latest grants form part of a total \u00a36 million Scottish Government investment in 2025-26 to expand the range of people running their own business and help make Scotland one of the most entrepreneur-friendly locations places in Europe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digit-expo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"DIGIT Expo 2025 | Edinburgh\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img class=\"lazyload\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/4.jpg\" alt=\"DIGIT Expo 2025 | Edinburgh\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Projects include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Entrepreneurs Pathways Lab,\u00a0<\/strong>a six-month entrepreneurship incubator in Govan, Glasgow. It will support ethnic minority women with tailored business development training, mentorship and access to co-working spaces<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spark the Connection Roadshow,<\/strong>\u00a0will deliver hands-on workshops, networking and regional roadshows to support aspiring entrepreneurs in Aberdeen, Inverness, Dumfries, Melrose, Glasgow and Perth.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bold Beginnings,\u00a0<\/strong>will help more than 100 women in the Wester Hailes and Muirhouse areas of Edinburgh to explore entrepreneurship with coaching, care and travel vouchers and seed funding<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recommended reading<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Scottish Government is focused on fostering Scotland\u2019s spirit of innovation to create jobs and drive economic growth,\u201d deputy first minister Kate Forbes said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the latest Technation report, we are the fastest growing start-up economy in the UK by far and one of the fastest growing in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy providing the conditions and means for people to launch and develop a businesses, whatever their background or circumstances, we are seeing start-up rates reach record levels.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe projects being funding today get to the heart of tackling under-representation in our start-up community and help ensure we break down barriers for anyone with entrepreneurial talent.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The successful projects are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Scottish Asian Business Chamber: Stirlingshire BAME Business Infrastructure Project- grant up to \u00a340,900<\/li>\n<li>Spark: What If Craigshill \u2013 unlocking the enterprise potential of a community- grant up to \u00a384,215<\/li>\n<li>The King\u2019s Trust: Enterprise for All \u2013 grant up to \u00a374,596<\/li>\n<li>Together Reaching Higher CIC: Entrepreneurs Pathways Lab \u2013 grant up to \u00a384,195<\/li>\n<li>PeoplePlus Group Ltd: Supporting Women in Enterprise \u2013 grant up to \u00a382,724<\/li>\n<li>Rebel Business School &amp; Ziyx Scotland: Rebel Business School \u2013 grant up to \u00a3111,500<\/li>\n<li>City of Edinburgh Council and Business Gateway Edinburgh: Bold Beginnings \u2013 grant up to \u00a3121,864.30<\/li>\n<li>East Ayrshire Council: Step Up: Women\u2019s Enterprise Pathway- grant up to \u00a3101,000<\/li>\n<li>West College Scotland: Art of Enterprise- grant up to \u00a322,520<\/li>\n<li>The Melting Pot: Enterprise in Place \u2013 grant up to \u00a3127,400<\/li>\n<li>17 Points Limited: Spark the Connection Roadshow \u2013 grant up to \u00a373,345<\/li>\n<li>Social Enterprise Academy: Place-Based Support for Underrepresented Entrepreneurs in Highland &amp; Eilean Siar- grant up to \u00a355,37<\/li>\n<li>Scotpreneur: Mostly Arsed \u2013 An engaging, self-help learning programme for people curious about self-employment but unsure where to start \u2013 grant up to \u00a338,728<\/li>\n<li>Stirling Enterprise Park (STEP): FeMade -Turning Female Ideas into Impact- grant up to \u00a3147,370<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n\tRelated<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Projects are being rolled out across the country to help more women and people from under-represented groups start&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":464577,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5009],"tags":[748,5426,3187,4884,99612,155194,712,3322,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-464576","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-scotland","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-diversity","10":"tag-entrepreneurs","11":"tag-great-britain","12":"tag-pathways","13":"tag-pathways-pre-start-fund","14":"tag-scotland","15":"tag-startups","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115296452327741742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=464576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/464576\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/464577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=464576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=464576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=464576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}