Sponsors

Title Sponsor

Business Gateway

Business Gateway is Scotland’s national business advice service, offering free advice and support to anyone starting a new business, as well as to thousands of existing businesses with the ambition and potential to grow.

The free and comprehensive service offers one-to-one advice and support for every stage of the business journey and to every SME in Scotland. Business Gateway’s network of local offices spans the length and breadth of the country, recognising the many and varied geographical challenges they all face and providing resources and knowledge to respond to that demand.

Business Gateway’s service includes publicly funded local workshops, one-to-one support from business advisers, extensive online resources and expert support on topics including innovation, exporting, finance and new markets. Additionally, Business Gateway works closely with national and regional economic development organisations, including Scottish Enterprise, Highlands & Islands Enterprise and Scottish Development International, to provide growing businesses with specialist support and financial assistance.

Business Gateway is delivered by local authorities throughout Scotland.

https://www.bgateway.com/

Category Sponsors

Virgin Money

Virgin Money is a full-service digital bank, serving 6.5m customers across the UK. It offers market-leading products and services to meet the full range of customers’ retail and business banking needs.

Virgin Money aims to provide a consistently world-class experience for customers through its leading technology platform, telephone banking and a national network of innovative stores and business banking centres. By making banking better, Virgin Money seeks to deliver on its purpose of ‘Making you happier about money’.

Virgin Money has a proud heritage of supporting businesses to help them thrive. It has over 200k business customers, providing a range of services and financing options so they can manage their money and grow their businesses. Through current accounts, short-term and long-term financing, and digital tools to make life simpler and give them control, Virgin Money provides expertise, award-winning products and Virgin perks to small and large businesses to help them succeed.

Business Bank Accounts – Current & Savings | Business | Virgin Money UK

Strathclyde Business School

As Scotland’s leading business school, Strathclyde Business School is committed to the advancement of family business. At the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship within the Business School, we use our experience as family business researchers and practitioners to inform economic policy and, with our unique Growth Advantage Programme, provide practical, accessible and useful learning so that Scotland’s family businesses can continue to be the real wealth creators in Scotland – creating employment and prosperity for our communities.

https://www.strath.ac.uk/business/huntercentreforentrepreneurship/gap/

Support Sponsor

LOCALiQ

LOCALiQ is one of the UK’s fastest growing digital marketing agencies

We combine our best in class marketing technology, the data insights this provides, with our huge audience reach. We can help our customers grow, and take their business to the next level.

At LOCALiQ we focus on you. As part of Newsquest Media Group, the UK’s leading local publisher, LOCALiQ gives you access to a network of 200+ trusted news brands, both in print and online, an award-winning events division, recruitment platforms and a wide range of multimedia marketing solutions.

www.localiq.co.uk

Benefits of becoming a Sponsor

Gain access to a specific demographics. Event sponsorship offers a way to reach a specific target audience that may have been inaccessible otherwise.
Live Events provide a lead-nurturing Environment. We offer the opportunity to provide a networking booklet which gives attendees access to every name and organisation in the room alongside their table number, allowing for qualified conversations in a less formal environment.
As we enter our 240^th year our audience has never been bigger across all multimedia channels. With our campaigns lasting 4-5 months your brand will be front and centre of all marketing during this period.
Sponsorship offers a partnership approach with the worlds longest running Newspaper which is trusted to provide high quality analysis and opinions on the Scottish landscape.
Raise your brand value by association with a high-quality awards process which recognises excellence with an impartial and in-depth judging panel and process
All of our partners work with us and have the opportunity to support in the legacy and shape of each event, allowing for a truly collaborative approach which ensures the highest quality of events throughout Scotland.

Event Management

We also offer our event management services to create bespoke creative solutions tailored to your business needs.

Our events team are highly skilled in bringing to life event ideas through to conception. We have a vast array of contacts within varying sectors which allow us to target your required audience. Our events are of the highest calibre bringing together the best in hosting, entertainment and hospitality all while working towards the common goal of creating worthwhile live content for every person involved.