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Oct 26 2022

Net Zero Transition Fund

Categories: Food & Drink

In the current climate, businesses have been looking at new ways to reduce their carbon emissions but introducing new equipment or processes can be costly. Businesses in the food & drink and tourism sectors especially are still feeling the financial pressures from the past few years. To offer financial support to these sectors, Invest Fife more

Oct 12 2022

Are you prepared for the introduction of the Tipping Bill?

Categories: LeisurePayroll

The UK Government is bringing in new laws to make the distribution of tips fairer, more transparent, and stop employers from withholding tips from their workers. The Employment (Allocation of Tips) Bill, known as the ‘Tipping Bill’, will require employers to pass on 100% of tips to workers. Cash tips are already protected by law, and more

Sep 29 2022

How we are supporting our clients, Dalnoid Cottages & Treehouses

Categories: Leisure

It is important that your accountant is knowledgeable and understands the complexities specific to your industry. Our EQ Leisure specialists have extensive experience of supporting their leisure clients and are proud members of many Scottish leisure governing bodies. Our Partner and Head of EQ Leisure, Scott Greig, often talks at ASSC webinars and after his more

Jul 27 2022

ASSC’s short-term lets survey launched

Categories: Leisure

In response to the Scottish Government announcing its intent to licence all short-term lets in Scotland from 1 October 2022, the Association of Scotland’s Self-Caterers (ASSC) are asking all short-term let providers to complete a new survey to help the Moffat Centre for Travel and Tourism Business Development develop a current (mid-2022) baseline analysis of the more

Jul 1 2022

2022 Scottish Agritourism Growth Tracker

Categories: AgricultureLeisure

Scotland’s farms, crofts and estates are being asked to take part in an annual census to help build a better understanding of what support is required to grow the country’s burgeoning agritourism sector. The Scottish Agritourism Growth Tracker, undertaken by VisitScotland in partnership with Scottish Agritourism, looks to establish the size and scale of the more

May 13 2022

The Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation Grant Scheme

Categories: AgricultureFood & Drink

The next round of the annual Food Processing, Marketing and Cooperation Grant Scheme (FPMC) is now open for applications. As one of a number of funding schemes which make up the Scottish Rural Development Programme, the FPMC provides £10.2 million of grant funding to businesses (or groups of businesses) within the Scottish food & drink sector more

May 2 2022

FHL earnings for National Insurance and pension purposes

Categories: Leisure

There has been a lot of media overage surrounding the recent 1.25% increase in National Insurance Contributions (NICs) from 6 April 2022. The increase was applied across both employers and employees NICs and will revert to the previous levels when the new Health and Social Care Levy (HSCL) is introduced from 6 April 2023. How more