We’re delighted to hear that WeDO members VWM Wealth have been awarded with the highly prestigious Chartered Financial Planning Firm of the Year by their professional body, The Personal Finance Society at the Personal Finance Awards. The Award was presented to VWM by Andrew Pike from NS&I. The Personal Finance Awards Read more…
Pitch@Palace has helped 931 Entrepreneurs in 62 countries create 5,977 new jobs and generate over £1,113 million of new economic activity over the last 5 years. The survival rate for Pitch@Palace Alumni companies is over 97%. Impressive figures given the challenges faced by many entrepreneurs. WHAT IS PITCH@PALACE? Pitch@Palace gives Read more…
Doddie Weir OBE has today been announced as the 2019 winner of our Inspiring Leader Award and will be presented with his Award at our Awards Dinner on the 24th of May at the Kimpton Hotel in Edinburgh. We are absolutely delighted for Doddie and it is a richly deserved Read more…
Eight aspirational female-led Scottish companies have been shortlisted as finalists for this year’s AccelerateHER Awards. They include Glasgow-based businesses All Day Designs, makers of a toddler pushchair which converts into a trike, Cedeco Contractors, developers of an offshore wind turbine installation solution, Empowered Earth, an app for managing and tracking Read more…
French Duncan LLP, accountants and business advisors & Corporate members of WeDO, have reported a bumper year advising on 25 deals worth almost £200m in 2018 in the private and public sectors. Deal values ranged from a few million up to £60m across various sectors including engineering, hotels & hospitality, aerospace, technology, Read more…
ZoneFox, Edinburgh based corporate members of WeDO Scotland, specialising in AI-driven insider threat analysis have been awarded the Scottish Government contract to provide a fully cloud-hosted service to protect all employees and data across 15,000 endpoints. After conducting a thorough analysis of the different solutions available on the market, the Read more…
Pitch@Palace was founded by HRH The Duke of York in 2014 to provide a platform to amplify and accelerate the work of entrepreneurs. Since inception, it has helped 785 entrepreneurs in 59 countries across the globe; 3669 jobs have been created and there has been more than £885M of economic activity. Read more…
Fast, efficient and flexible business finance. BE Group Debt Finance Scotland provides loan capital to new and existing, small and medium sized businesses across Scotland. The £12m fund, which is part funded by the EU, helps accelerate the growth of businesses in Scotland, complementing other private and public sector forms Read more…
Congratulations to WeDO Scotland member, Ian Pilbeam of The HR Dept, who has won Midlothian and East Lothian Chamber of Commerce’s Business High Growth Award against strong competition. The award recognises a business that has experienced exceptional growth in sales, profit, market share, jobs or international trade. The company provides Read more…
Business growth barriers are all too common a challenge for entrepreneurs, regardless of how well established their businesses are. As many Scottish businesses have enjoyed solid growth since the last recession, a new focus on entrepreneurship has seen the help and support available to start-ups vastly increase. But, as the Read more…