In this webinar, Catriona Liddle from Queen Margaret University’s Scottish Centre for Food Development & Innovation, and Joanne Burns, Reformulation for Health Manager at the Food and Drink Federation Scotland (FDFS), will lead a discussion on how food and drink businesses in the Highlands and Islands can reformulate and make their products and recipes healthier.
The discussion will cover topics such as the public health challenge of improving dietary health, and the Scottish Government’s Reformulation for Health Programme, through to consumer insights and the response to market and customer demands for healthier products. We’ll also hear from businesses seeking to innovate and reformulate their products and ingredients.
There will be an opportunity for discussion with the speaker panel, which also includes David Gass from the Highland Food and Drink Innovation Network, and Natalie Dillon, Development Manager Food and Drink at HIE.
Catriona Liddle, from the Scottish Centre for Food Development & Innovation, runs a variety of new product development and reformulation for health projects with the Scottish food and drink sector.
Joanne Burns, FDFS Reformulation for Health Manager, works across Scotland to deliver reformulation solutions for the sector, working closely with trade bodies and Regional Food Groups.
Please register online by 5pm, Monday 22 February to secure your webinar spot.
Register to attend now using this link
Did you know that you can save money through your Chamber membership?
Your membership includes access to Quest Cover Services, with the opportunity to speak to experienced professionals in H&S, HR, Legal and Tax and the ability to download up to 400 free employment documents.
Join the Chamber team and a representative from Quest Cover on 8 February 2021 at 10am to find out more about the various services provided as part of your membership.
This informative event will cover:
- Access to advice lines
- Website access
- Insurance cover
To join us for this event, please email the Chamber team on info@caithnesschamber.com to reserve a place.
Maximise the opportunities for your business and ensure you’re fully prepared and comfortable in this new virtual international environment.
Virtual meetings, missions and conferences are now replacing face-to-face events for international businesses – and look set to stay.
This workshop will cover all aspects including pre-research, polishing your pitch, finding new ways of presenting/pitching digitally and will help you consider the different international cultures in the digital world. You will also have the opportunity to test your online pitching and presenting in a follow up one-to-one online role play session with the trainer. This will help you to put what you’ve learned into practice, leaving you ready to make the most of virtual international opportunities for your business.
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The COVID 19 crisis is the ultimate test of management and leadership – a sudden dramatic, life threatening upheaval, where the outcomes are uncertain.
In this extraordinarily difficult time, the value of great management and leadership is being demonstrated every day – whether it’s senior leaders in government or managers on the frontline of healthcare and retail.
The VLA is using the might of it’s Chartered Management Institute accreditation and ten years of management development experience to invite managers and leaders to participate in a learning conversation.
Their webinar for Managing the New Normal is a free introductory webinar introducing their new innovative way of developing managers and leaders in the covid crisis. Participants will be provided with a thought provoking exercise prior to the webinar. The aim is to help them to reflect on how they or their organisation have managed the crisis.
During the webinar we will discuss five key themes that the crisis has presented us: flexible working, crisis management, mental health & wellbeing, the new employment landscape and the new good governance. Participants will be encouraged to discuss their experience around each of the themes. They will then be presented with information and support to guide them through each of the covid challenges.
After the webinar participants will be provided with access to our online learning system with a host of resources, information, tools and templates to support them in these key areas.
The aim of the webinar is to introduce you to our VLA management tutors, resources, tools and templates. We very much hope you can attend and join us in a learning conversation.
Register to attend now using this link.
As Scotland looks to achieve a delicate balance between protecting the nation’s health and supporting the economy, join Royal Bank of Scotland at their regular webinar series looking at how businesses can move from resilience to recovery.
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Thursday 25th February 2021
12pm – 4pm
SHREC 2021 takes place six months before the eyes of the world turn to Scotland as the 26th UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) takes place in Glasgow. This global summit is expected to see the nations of the world come together to agree actions to tackle climate change. With leading figures including David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg prominent in the headlines over the past year, and the Coronavirus forcing new ways of thinking about how our societies operate, it is not far-fetched to suggest that the Highlands can become the focal point for the world because of the positive engagement with renewable energy to-date and the can-do attitude.
SHREC 21 will focus on climate change and will be exploring the current Scottish & UK net-zero legal standpoint as well as discussing why it is that businesses need to take an active interest in the climate change agenda. This is all the more pertinent as countries endeavour to transition to a greener economy following the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Highlands and Islands in particular are well placed to play a big part in delivering solutions which could be exported to the world, and it will be fascinating to get more of an idea from leading figures in our sector of what is being done already, and what can be done. It won’t be one panacea to all the planet’s ills, but lots of small steps and changes which contribute to a more sustainable future. SHREC 2021 can be one of those small steps.
Virtual Networking
Although it will be a live online event, Harper Macleod will still be making sure that everyone can network and meet each other. They’ll have breakout rooms throughout the online conference where you can bring your own tea/coffee and enjoy a conversation with other delegates. There will be live chat/Q&A available throughout also.
Please sign up here.
The next few months will see one of the most significant changes to the trading landscape for UK and Scottish businesses, and for those looking to trade into the UK and Scotland from abroad, in the last fifty years. The UK’s exit from the European Union will directly affect trading arrangements with EU customers, and the UK’s new trade deals with non-EU countries will affect trading further afield. Supply chains and part procurement arrangements are likely to be affected, as will the free movement of workers, key to local manufacturing arrangements. Whilst this will result in additional complexity, compliance requirements and costs, it will also offer opportunities.
The webinar will be delivered online via Harper Macleod’s Zoom Webinars platform by lead speaker Jamie Watt who is a Partner in the firm. Leading the firm’s intellectual property and technology (‘IP&T’) practice, Jamie is a specialist in IP&T and complex contract matters particularly those with a cross-border element. As part of this he manages the firm’s IP registration practice for clients, addressing over 1500 different brand rights in over 60 countries. Jamie is a registered expert with the European Commission, rated as a leading individual in both Chambers and the Legal 500, accredited as a specialist with the Law Society of Scotland, and has been recognised as an IP Star for the previous 5 years by Intellectual Property Magazine.
The webinar will take place on Thursday 19th of November at 1pm.
Register in advance for this webinar by clicking here.
Exercise in a Box is an online tool from the NCSC which helps organisations test and practise their response to a cyber-attack.
It is completely free, and you don’t have to be an expert to use it. The service provides exercises, based around the main cyber threats, which your organisation can do in your own time, in a safe environment, as many times as you want. It includes everything you need for setting up, planning, delivery, and post-exercise activity, all in one place.
SBRC has been tasked with facilitating Exercise in a Box with companies from all over Scotland. This will play host to one of those sessions.
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Statkraft would like to update you about their plans for a wind farm in the area, before an application is submitted.
Join the online exhibition: view the plans and meet the team.
Following their exhibition in June last year, Statkraft have continued with site studies and assessed all feedback received on the initial plans put forward. They are now ready to share details of the improvements made to the site design before it is submitted. They believe they have designed a project that is sensitive to its surroundings, and makes the most of the ample wind resource available.
In line with Scottish Government advice in relation to Covid-19, they are holding an online consultation where you can find out more from the project team.
You can view the online exhibition here. At the online event you can ask questions, arrange a call and chat online with the project team
