Client Stories
The GrowBiz community is a diverse and inspiring mix of businesses from across rural Scotland; read some of their stories here, and discover an insight into what makes these businesses and their owners tick.
Annie Scrimgeour
Annie Scrimgeour runs Parable Pod in Kinross, a social enterprise she describes as offering ‘counselling with a conscience’.
Angela Maughan
East Perthshire-based Angela Maughan is an ordained celebrant offering a bespoke and personal service for engagement parties, weddings, naming ceremonies and funerals that is unique in the area. She is also a qualified complementary therapist.
Daniel Muir
Murthly-based Daniel Muir runs Supply Chain Scotland, a new advice and resource consultancy that supports businesses to manage the systems, structures and processes they need in place to deliver projects or goods and services to their customers.
Richard Cross
Richard Cross is a web designer and developer as well as a photographer and certified drone pilot based in Stanley. He has run his own business for nearly 20 years and recently moved from Edinburgh to rural Perthshire.
Piotr Gudan
Outdoor Explore offers bespoke kayak tours across central Scotland on lochs, rivers and the sea, as well as archery sessions, guided hill walks, mountain bike trips and paddle sport courses.
Kelly McIntyre
Kelly McIntyre is a Blairgowrie-based photographer and videographer with over 10 years of experience.
Clare Pinchbeck
Clare Pinchbeck owns and runs Hettie’s Tearoom, a charming tearoom in Pitlochry and an online tea shop and bakery takeaway in Dunkeld, both in Highland Perthshire.
Pete Richardson
East Perthshire-based Pete Richardson runs First Aid Perthshire, which offers first aid services to events as well as a wide selection of first aid at work training courses for businesses.
Jennifer Lindsay-Finan
Luncarty-based Jennifer Lindsay-Finan runs River Park Learning and Development which specialises in designing and delivering digital-based training.
Erika Green
Auchterarder-based Erika Green is the woman behind Green’s Granola, which is made using pure Scottish wholegrain jumbo oats, complemented by a selection of healthy and delicious ingredients from around the world.
Amelia Milton
Amelia Milton is the nine-year-old entrepreneur behind Smelleez Soaps – which “makes soap for everyone and their dog”.