Business Gateway Shetland
Business Gateway Shetland provides practical advice and guidance to help local businesses thrive.
We would encourage any business looking to tap in to the volume of work projected over the next 10 years to get in touch. Our business advisers can bring a fresh pair of eyes to your specific challenges. They will act as a sounding board, offer advice and identify the products and services best suited to your business needs.
Below is just some of the areas that Business Gateway Shetland can provide support on:
Strategic Growth
Taking the decision to grow a business means embracing the risks that come with growth. Business Gateway specialist advisers can help you with this process.
Risk Management
It's essential to plan thoroughly to protect yourself from the impact of potential crises. Business Gateway advisers can help you in identifying both global and more specific risks, and help you mitigate against them to protect your business.
Cash Flow Management
Having a handle on your finances is essential to running a business. Business Gateway can help you understand the most important elements of financial planning to ensure you are tracking and controlling how much money flows in and out of your business in order to accurately forecast ahead.
Digital Skills
Business Gateway offers extensive support in digital skills, including regular webinars and one to one sessions with specialist advisers.
Becoming Lender Ready
Business Gateway can help you produce or update your business plan and identify sources of funding that might be relevant for your organisation.
Scottish Manufacturing Advisory Service (SMAS)
Business Gateway can refer you to SMAS to help transform the ways you operate your business processes and take advantage of new opportunities, such as efficiency and cost saving measures, that will increase productivity and boost competitiveness.
Webinars
Business Gateway provides a range of regular free webinars that aim to support business development.
Research Service
Business Gateway specialises in desk-based research and subscribes to all of the relevant databases that supply up-to-date, reliable, premium data – saving your business time and money.
Supplier Development Programme
The Scottish Government funds the Supplier Development Programme (SDP) which runs events and works with partners to help SMEs and third sector organisations win work through Public Contracts Scotland (PCS) and grow their business.