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North Highland Regeneration Fund AGM - 24th November 2023, at 10:30am in the Pentland Hotel Thurso AGM 2023 The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) is holding its Seventeenth Annual General Meeting at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso on 24th November 2023, at 10:30. This is an opportunity to hear about the work of the Fund over the ...

North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) AGM - 8 November 2022 The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) is holding its sixteenth Annual General Meeting at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso on Tuesday 8 November 2022 at 10:00. This is an opportunity to hear about the work of the Fund over the past year, ...

North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) AGM The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) would like to invite you to attend their fifteenth Annual General Meeting, to be held at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso on 29 September at 15:00. This is an opportunity to hear about the work of the Fun ...

NHRF updates on business support at fourteenth AGM The North Highland Regeneration Fund today (6 November) held its fourteenth Annual General Meeting, at which attendees heard of the continued support that the Fund has to offer businesses in the North Highlands. As has been the case for many ...

North Highland Regeneration Fund AGM - 6 November 2020 The North Highland Regeneration Fund would like to invite you to attend their fourteenth Annual General Meeting, to be held virtually via Zoom on Friday 6 November at 10:30. This is an opportunity to hear about the work of the Fund over ...

DIRECTOR VACANCIES: North Highland Regeneration Fund wish to appoint Non-Executive Directors North Highland Regeneration Fund offers real help to real businesses in the Dounreay travel to work area by providing loan funding. Set up by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in 2006 to counteract the effects of the rundown of the Dounreay ...

A retreat like no other 2018 has been a whirlwind year for the Highland Haven, with construction of the beautiful Scandinavian-inspired, bunkhouse style lodging complete, the first set of visitors greeted, and a rebrand and relaunch of their website and social med ...

Exciting new tourism initiative The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) is delighted to announce the launch of a brand new initiative offering support to accommodation providers in the North Highlands who are serving the North Coast 500 route. Launched on 30 June 2017 a ...

iStart Challenge finals a great success On Thursday 3rd December, the North Highland College UHI – with support from the North Highland Regeneration Fund – hosted the finals of the iStart Challenge, a competition designed to encourage and support entrepreneurial spirit amongst you ...

Rock Rose team reveal release date for Holy Grass vodka Hand-crafted in the far North of Scotland, Holy Grass Vodka, is the latest release from the multi-award winning Dunnet Bay Distillery in Caithness. It features the unusual botanical Holy Grass (or Anthoxanthum nitens) once discovered on the bank ...

iStart Challenge Finals The North Highland Regeneration Fund and North Highland College will be hosting the iStart Challenge Finals Event at The Weigh Inn Hotel, Thurso on 3rd December 2015 from 08:45 to 13:00. Run by the North Highland College with suppor ...

Entrepreneurial skills the theme of North Highland Regeneration AGM The North Highland Regeneration Fund has today (11th November) hosted its ninth Annual General Meeting at the Pentland Hotel in Thurso, with youth enterprise and entrepreneurial skills being a key focus of the event. In addition to the formal ...

North Highland Regeneration Fund AGM 2015 The North Highland Regeneration Fund would like to invite you to its ninth Annual General Meeting, held in the Ballroom at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso on Wednesday 11th November 2015 at 11am. As well as giving you a chance to find out more abo ...

New competition for entrepreneurial youths launched The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) and North Highland College (NHC) are delighted to announce the launch of the iStart Challenge, a competition designed to encourage entrepreneurial spirit amongst young people in the area. The compet ...

Thurso cinema boss in ambitious new venture Thurso Cinema boss Rob Arthur is in the throes of re-opening a complex in Wales as part of his company’s plans to run a chain throughout the UK. Aurora Leisure Ltd has taken over the Scala Theatre in Prestatyn which has been closed since Ja ...

Update from Dunnet Bay Distillers The North Highland Regeneration Fund managing agent went on a visit to Dunnet Bay Distillers to catch up with the team behind internationally acclaimed Rock Rose Gin to discuss their current position, as well as their exciting plans for the futu ...

Christmas Food & Drink at the Castle of Mey Looking for something special this Christmas? Then come along to the Castle of Mey on the 29th and 30th November from 12noon - 4pm, where the North Highland Regeneration Fund will be showcasing a range of seasona ...

Distillery licence application a success An application made by Dunnet Bay Distillers to be allowed to sell alcohol has been approved. The company, set up by husband and wife team Martin and Claire Murray, was granted its request for a provisional premises licence at the Highland Li ...

Event highlights regeneration fund support John O'Groat Journal A regeneration fund has underwritten £1.4 million in "soft" loans to over 40 small and medium-sized businesses in the Dounreay travel-to-work area since it launched in 2007. North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF), wh ...

NHRF Reception and Information Event The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) will be holding an evening reception at the Castle of Mey on 26th May to help local businesses find out what the Fund can do for them. The event will offer local businesspeople the chance to meet wi ...

NHRF loan provides concrete results as new distillery finishes foundations Dunnet Bay Distillers Ltd today (28th February) finished laying the foundations of their new distillery at Dunnet, in what promises to be the start of an exciting year for this ambitious new business. The company, which has been supported in the ...

Caithness Business Fund welcomes new applicants Caithness Business Fund is now open to a wider business audience and is encouraging new applications. The Fund, which was launched last September, was initially issuing grants of between £100 to £5,000 to young people starting a new busines ...

Young Enterprise the theme of AGM ‘Young Enterprise’ and ‘Entrepreneurship’ were the two overriding themes of North Highland Regeneration Fund’s Annual General Meeting held last Friday at the Pentland Hotel in Thurso. North Highland Regeneration Fund is a company ...

North Highland Regeneration Fund AGM The North Highland Regeneration Fund Annual General Meeting will be held at 11am on 29th November 2013 in the Large Lounge at the Pentland Hotel, Thurso. The AGM will give you an opportunity to find out what the Fund has been doing in this pa ...

New Community Benefit Fund now Open for Business Baillie Wind Farm Community Benefit Fund has been set-up to disburse funds from the newly commissioned Baillie Wind Farm which is contributing £100,000 per annum for the 25 year life of the wind farm for the benefit of West Caithness. The Fu ...

Banks double cash pot for tourism firms The Royal Bank of Scotland and NatWest have announced plans to make another £150 million available to help tourism businesses in Scotland expand. The banks are doubling their Leisure Fund to £300 million after the first £150 million was sn ...

Caithness Business Fund launched A new Fund has been launched to assist small businesses with their business growth and development and promote the economic growth of Caithness and North Sutherland. Caithness Business Fund was created after discussions between Caithness Cham ...

Business activity growth fastest Press and Journal Scottish business activity is growing at the fastest rate ever seen. The Bank of Scotland's latest monthly purchasing managers' index (PMI) highlights record activity levels and new work during August, and the sharpest rise ...

Risk taking pays off in difficult times North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) is heartened by the results of a recent audit of its loan clients by Managing Agent, Caithness Chamber of Commerce, and encourages more businesses to take a look at whether the Fund can help with their dev ...

Fund to support wave power Scottish Energy Minister Fergus Ewing used All-Energy to relaunch the Scottish Government's £18 million marine renewables commercialisation fund (MRCF) to only support wavepower projects across the country. The fund, launched at last year's ...

Caithness Chamber of Commerce on the move The Caithness Chamber of Commerce is moving to new premises at Naver Business Centre in Thurso. The decision, approved by the Chamber’s Board of Directors in January 2013, brings the Chamber’s team all together under one roof and will als ...

Forum pushes for early improvements to Berriedale The Caithness Chamber of Commerce, under the auspices of the Caithness Transport Forum, has written to John Swinney to emphasise the importance of re-aligning the Berriedale Braes to support business moving forward for the emerging renewables in ...

NDA announcement on National Nuclear Archive The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) today announced a decision to proceed with the next phase of the National Nuclear Archive project. The project will see a new purpose built archive facility constructed at Wick to provide long-term sto ...

Business fund has helped secure over 200 jobs Caithness Courier A fund designed to distribute loans to businesses in the far north has helped retain and create 218 jobs since its inception in 2006. The North Highland Regeneration Fund (NHRF) investment of £1.8 million into the econom ...

NHRF AGM 9 November 2012 The sixth Annual General Meeting of the North Highland Regeneration Fund will be held at the Large Lounge in the Pentland Hotel on 9 November 2012 at 11.00am. The full notice of the Annual General Meeting can be downloaded here.

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