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The Sector is increasingly unviable for freelancers and small organisations who are less able afford the time and capacity to engage in highly competitive funding or pitching activity, often designed to keep people out, rather than include them – a simpler process for applying and securing funds must be introduced urgently.
Geovation Scotland presented its 2024 Showcase event in March, providing a platform for cohort 5 to pitch their tech companies to a collective of potential investors, partners and supporters.
Addressing the impact of tourism One person said, The biggest issue for the Cairngorm community is ‘dirty camping’, tents pitched close to the road, and motorhomes.
Addressing the impact of tourism One person said, The biggest issue for the Cairngorm community is ‘dirty camping’, tents pitched close to the road, and motorhomes.
Liam Kerr, or any other Tory member, cannot pitch up here, demanding more money for free school meals or anything else, when, through the tax cuts that the Tories wanted us to follow, there would be £1 billion less—Interruption.
A 10 per cent reduction in capital budgets affects infrastructure investment in rural Scotland as well as in urban Scotland, so Tory MSPs cannot pitch up here with their list of asks when their Government has slashed the funding for Scotland’s public services.
At the same time, we are seeing sports facilities across Scotland, from local swimming pools and ice rinks to athletics facilities and hockey pitches, falling victim to closures and cost cutting.
That is equivalent to 20,556 football pitches. In the South Scotland region, there is the George hotel in Stranraer, the InterFloor factory in Dumfries and the N Peal building in Hawick, among many others.