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Get Travel Trade Ready Workshop with VisitScotland
Is your business Travel Trade ready?
Do you want to reach new markets?
Come along to this workshop where the focus will be on demystifying the travel trade. You will also find out more about travel trade engagement and new routes to market – particularly international markets.
This workshop is relevant to all tourism business in Caithness and Sutherland and Venture North encourage you to come along and learn about this evolving sector that presents exciting opportunities for the area.
To find out more and to book, click here.
The 6th Flow Country Research Conference will explore peatland processes, resilience & dynamics under climate and land use change
With fast-changing landscapes under large-scale restoration and increased exposure to climate extremes, it is more important than ever to understand dynamics in peatlands.
What are the key eco-hydrological thresholds in blanket bog landscapes?
How do blanket bogs under restoration respond to droughts or wildfire events?
How can we measures those responses over such large scales?
What are the key ecological indicators of recovery?
How can we maximise resilience through restoration interventions?
These are some of the topics we hope to explore over the three days of the conference.
Click here to find out more and to book.
If you love golf and would like to make it your career, visit out open day in Dornoch on Saturday 11th April to find out how our courses can help you get there!
Our open day will give you the opportunity to:
- Meet and chat with the golf lecturing team
- Tour our state of the art facilities
- Visit our newly built student accommodation (which offers a complimentary student membership at Royal Dornoch Golf Club)
- Play a round on Royal Dornoch
If you are able to come along, we would also recommend that you look into the Royal Dornoch Junior Open on Sunday 12th April. More information can be found online on the Royal Dornoch website.
Please confirm your attendance to our open day by Friday 20th March 2020.
Click here to find out more.
Come along and meet the VisitScotland Industry Relationship Manager for North Highlands, Caroline Robertson at their upcoming drop in session here at Naver Business Centre.
This event will run from 0930 to 1200 on Thursday 20th March 2020, and is open to all tourism businesses.
We encourage you to come along and have a 1-to-1 discussion around the support and promotion VisitScotland can provide to your business.
As this is a drop in session, there is no requirement to pre-book, however feel free to get in touch with either ourselves or Caroline in advance if there is anything in particular you wish to discuss.
Do you want your business to become more cyber resilient? Then come along to this free engaging and informative cyber resilience workshop hosted by Highlands & Islands Enterprise at the Newton Room, North Highland College UHI in Thurso from 09:00 on 21 February 2020.
Experts from the Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) and Cyber Security Scotland will brief attendees on the most up-to-date cyber threat landscape and highlight free or low-cost resources to help you increase your cyber resilience.
For more information and to book your free place, simply click here.
This half-day seminar is a must for all financial or budget holding staff and anyone who wants to know how tax affects (and can benefit) arts and heritage organisations with charitable status in Scotland.
The accompanying general tax guide provides a practical summary of the training and guidance on how tax affects the arts and heritage organisations. The event and guide are also a great refresher and reference for those who need reminding of basic principles and want to know how different taxes interact with each other.
The event covers:
* Corporate Tax
* VAT
* Gift Aid
* Basic rules, common issues and opportunities
It will specifically look at current and common issues including the tax status of grant income, box office arrangements, room hires, trading activities, memberships, fundraising and sponsorship. It will highlight the tax savings that can be available (including the creative industries tax relief) and the issues and opportunities that frequently affect arts and heritage organisations. It will highlight common errors and dispel common tax myths.
“It was all very informative and helpful in giving me a better understanding of tax. The trainers were excellent.”
Fiona Greer, Scottish Maritime Museum
“If you are running or about to run a regular giving or membership scheme, or corporate sponsorship – then this event is very useful.”
Zuleika Brett, V&A Museum of Design Dundee
“Very informative. Lots of space for questions and individual queries.” Miriam Haas, The Abbotsford Trust
“Must attend, very informative, participatory interesting.” Pauline Thomson, Stirling Smith Art Gallery & Museum
“Really informative and clear language making the process easy to understand.” Clare Weir, Culture NL
“Very well presented. Answered all our questions and explained very well.” Julia Karness, Falkirk Community Trust
About the Speakers: Kirsty Murray (Tax Director) and Scott Craig (VAT Partner), Scott-Moncrieff
Kirsty and Scott regularly assist arts and heritage organisations on all aspects of tax. This ranges from day to day compliance matters to capital projects and corporate transactions. Kirsty and Scott work together to ensure arts and heritage organisations understand how tax affects their organisation and to remove or reduce the cost of tax. They regularly help arts and heritage organisations to improve the overall tax position of collaborations, service agreements, box office transactions, membership schemes, fundraising activities, retail and catering activities.
Event includes tea, coffee and lunch.
Fees:
Members
£55 + VAT for Arts & Business Scotland members (Arts & Heritage)
£85 + VAT for Arts & Business Scotland members (Corporate)
Non-Members
£85 + VAT for non-members (Arts & Heritage)
£105 + VAT for non-members (Corporate)
Find out about Arts & Business Scotland membership.
Book tickets here.
Don’t miss out – HMRC are giving away millions of pounds to help you create new exhibitions.
Attend our NEW training seminar if you tick yes to the following three questions. Whether you currently pay tax or not, big savings could come your way.
* Are you a charity or subsidiary engaged in creating new exhibitions?
* Do you maintain a museum, community arts centre, gallery, library, archive or historic house with collections?
* Do you also curate exhibitions of collections of objects that are of artistic, historic, scientific or cultural interest?
If you have ticked yes to all three, then don’t miss this training event.
Remember charities don’t need to be paying tax to benefit, whether you pay tax or not you could be entitled to claim cash from HMRC.
This seminar, brought to you in partnership with Scott-Moncrieff, is a must for anyone who wants to understand more about whether they qualify and how to collate the information to make a claim.
The training will be delivered by Kirsty Murray (Director of Tax) and Lyn Murphy (Tax Manager), Scott-Moncrieff, experts in Creative Industries Tax Reliefs having claimed back over £7m for their clients.
The exhibitions must be a collection of objects that are of artistic, historic, scientific or culture interest but the objects must not be for sale or the display part of a competition. MGTR is available for expenditure incurred from 1 April 2017. Claims are made as part of a charity tax return and should be submitted to HMRC within 24 months of the company’s year-end.
The course will cover:
* The basics
* If your entity qualify
* If your exhibitions qualify
* Touring and non-touring exhibitions
* Qualifying expenditure and how to collate it
* How to prepare a claim
* A case study
“The morning was one of the most worthwhile and effective bits of training I have done in years.”
Mungo Campbell, The Hunterian
“It was very informative and well focussed, examples used were specific to everyone’s type of organisation.” Anne-Marie Platt, National Theatre of Scotland
“Focussed seminar addressing common tax issues for arts organisations in plain English from knowledgeable experts.” Muriel Robertson, Bloody Scotland
“A ‘must attend’ session”
Martina Kutzer-Prenzlow, Fife Cultural Trust
“Well paced, informative, at right level.”
Murray Wilson, Project Ability
“The whole thing was valuable. I liked the format and being able to ask questions and have discussion throughout – lots of interesting scenarios came up from participants.”
Dallas Mechan, Fife Cultural Trust
Event includes tea, coffee and light lunch.
Fees:
Members
£55 + VAT for Arts & Business Scotland members (Arts & Heritage)
£85 + VAT for Arts & Business Scotland members (Corporate)
Non-Members
£85 + VAT for non-members (Arts & Heritage)
£105 + VAT for non-members (Corporate)
Find out more about Arts & Business Scotland membership.
Book tickets here.
Why not visit the Holborn Hotel for an exciting live music and family afternoon?
The event will be held on Sunday 2nd February 2020, from 12:30pm to 8:30pm.
