One to One Meetings
Free, expert business advice for small businesses and enterprises across rural Scotland
We are here to provide you with free, impartial advice to help you start or grow your business.
Meet with one of our friendly advisers and receive guidance and support to help you identify what you need to get started or to achieve your business goals. From talking through your initial idea, helping you to develop a business strategy or identifying areas where you require training and development.
We won't write the business plan for you or go to the bank manager on your behalf, but we will make it all much more manageable by helping you work through what is needed each step of the way.
Meetings take place in person, over the phone or by video call, depending on where you are located and what you are comfortable with. Please note that until all Coronavirus restrictions are lifted, we are conducting most interactions online or over the phone. We hope to offer more in-person meetings as soon as it is safe to do so.
Get in touch to request a one-to-one meeting
Drop-In Surgery for Enterprise Support
You can also access support at our weekly online drop-in enterprise support surgeries, choose a 25 minute slot for a 1 to 1 session with one of the knowledgeable and experienced GrowBiz team. However small, brief or specific, we will be happy to help.
“One-to-one GrowBiz support enabled me to complete a tricky funding application, which resulted in securing a higher amount than originally anticipated.”
—Client, 2021.
Meet your potential adviser
Meet our friendly team of enterprise facilitators, perfectly placed to help you overcome your toughest challenges
Daniel Muir
Daniel first joined Growbiz as a mentor in 2019 and has since become an Enterprise Facilitator in the Making Rural Business Digital project.
With a background in continuous improvement, IT and supply chain management, mostly in food and drink manufacturing businesses, he is passionate about process improvement and applying best practice to make businesses work better.
His consultancy business, Supply Chain Scotland, aims to apply his knowledge and experience in forecasting and planning, customer and supplier engagement, and logistics to smaller businesses to help them improve their performance and results.
Caron Ironside
Caron has been involved in supporting the local creative sector, working with Culture Perth & Kinross and running the online Perthshire Creates network for the last 5 years.
A creative herself working in textiles, Caron has an insight into working as a sole trader in the sector, having taken part in Perthshire Open Studios and other events as well as running workshops sharing creative skills. Having previously worked in a marketing and events management capacity in the retail and hospitality sector, Caron combines this experience within the creative sector and keenly promotes the region’s creativity through writing business content, social media and organising Design Markets.
Alison Finlay
Alison’s background combines many years in consultancy with experience as a senior marketing professional within the food and drink and leisure and travel industries in major blue-chip organisations.
She has her own business as a business coach and has experience as a mentor with both the Scottish Chamber of Commerce’s Business Mentoring Scheme and a social enterprise.
She is also a qualified Kinesiopractor® and runs a clinical practice that deals holistically with individuals to help them with their physical, emotional and mental health. She has worked with hundreds of individuals to help them improve their work, home and family lives.