Business North Lanarkshire

Expert Help Framework North Lanarkshire Council in partnership with South Lanarkshire Council are seeking to appoint a range of skilled business consultants across a variety of disciplines to deliver business support and expert help consultancy services, surgeries and workshops for Lanarkshire based SMEs to complement and add value to the support delivered via the Business Gateway Lanarkshire service from 1st April 2025. For more details on the tender and to register your interest, please visit: https://ow.ly/tww850T4J8I Please note there is an online awareness session for this tender which will be held on 12 September 2024 at 2pm. More details on this session can be found within the Prior Information Notice published on Public Contracts Scotland.

Would you like to make a positive impact on your community while earning a living? 🤔 Find out more at one of our start up events around North Lanarkshire. Please note, these events are for those who have not set up a Social Enterprise as yet. https://ow.ly/xyYB50T3PRm

Women starting their own business can now receive 121 coaching and mentoring at The HIVE women's enterprise centre in Airdrie. This can help with confidence and motivation, setting goals, overcoming barriers and keeping business ideas and ambitions on track to become a reality. Since launching six months ago, more than 200 pre-start, early stage and existing female business owners have registered on The HIVE’s online platform to access the services. https://ow.ly/vVlZ50T359m

Join Smart Hub Lanarkshire on Friday 30 August for demonstrations on the use of collaborative robots (cobots) for welding. The sessions are one of the first demonstrations of this cutting-edge technology in Scotland. Businesses will learn how to programme a welding robot and have the opportunity to try it first-hand in an interactive session. Book at https://ow.ly/7jkY50T1U8g

Welsh engineering company, Envico, chose Cumbernauld as the ideal location to expand its UK operations and create 20 new jobs. The company occupies a 30,000 sq ft industrial unit Wardpark Industrial Estate and has invested £1.5 million to create the space they need for the specialist work. Read more at https://ow.ly/PtqW50SXpaJ

Interested in a career in childminding? Join our free business start-up event at The HIVE women's enterprise space on 4 September. It will provide a valuable insight to the childminding landscape in North Lanarkshire, and guide attendees on what’s involved in becoming a registered childminder. https://lnkd.in/eeBK3PKb

North Lanarkshire is benefitting from City Deal funding on a number of projects, inlcuding in Motherwell and Ravenscraig.

We are carrying out research to better understand the housing needs of key workers in North Lanarkshire; in particular, how housing affects the recruitment and retention of staff for businesses in the area. Our aspiration is for North Lanarkshire to be the place to Live, Learn, Work, Invest and Visit. It is vital that we have a breadth of available housing options available to help attract and retain a workforce to support business growth and investment. We have made a commitment within our Local Housing Strategy to explore and deliver a broad range of housing options including Build to Rent, Mid-Market Rent and Shared Equity. Providing these will help diversify our housing market and provide a wide range of housing options to attract and retain key workers within North Lanarkshire. To help us understand the issues, we would appreciate if you would please take the time to complete our survey: https://ow.ly/IN3F50SMchT Please complete the survey by 4pm, Friday 18th August 2024. The first stage of our research will focus on understanding the challenges from an employer perspective. Following this, we would like to undertake a survey of employees to understand housing challenges from their perspective. For interested employers, we may arrange further discussion/ focus groups to explore the issues in more detail. If you have any questions or would like more information, please email localhousingstrategy@northlan.gov.uk  

Global bank and engineering firm announce major investments in North Lanarkshire. HSBC Bank and Doble Engineering (part of ESCO Technologies Inc) are the latest global companies to invest in North Lanarkshire. Maxim Park at Eurocentral is now home to Doble Engineering’s Scottish Research and Design base. A leader in power grid diagnostic solutions, the company will carry out power utility product design from their new 3,244 sq ft suite, working with Doble’s main offices in Marlborough, Massachusetts. HSBC will lease nearly 55,000 sqft of office space at Maxim over three floors from next year. The deal represents one of the largest and most significant office lettings to be transacted in Scotland in recent years Read more: https://ow.ly/mlHu50SKIgm

OUT NOW!! Calender of Healthy Working Lives free support to SME's in Scotland. The team is committed to investing in the development of local business health and wellbeing support and have created workplace support training events that you can view at a glance on our NEW Training Calendar 2024-2025. We hope that you take advantage of our free training opportunities to improve your health and wellbeing business profile and further support your workforce. https://ow.ly/NEC150SIbL0