Assisting The Development Of Highland Enterprise

Directors of Highland Opportunity Limited, The Highland Council’s Enterprise Trust for the Highlands, recently held their Board meeting in Caithness and visited four successful local businesses which had all received financial assistance through their investment fund.

Highland Opportunity Limited provides discretionary financial assistance, professional business support, youth enterprise services and European consultancy to small and medium sized enterprises, with a particular interest in new and developing businesses.  The company has been providing financial assistance to Highland businesses since 1986.

Councillor Sandy Park, Chairman of HOL, said: “The Board was very impressed with each and every one of the businesses we visited. They are exactly the kind of business that Caithness needs to sustain its economy in the wake of the Dounreay run down.”

The Board, consisting of eight Councillors from across the Highlands, visited the following Caithness businesses: