CONSORTIUMS of companies are sharing £30,000 of funding as part of the collaboration prize from Co-operative Development Scotland.
The Scottish Honey and Beeswax Consortium, which has its headquarters in Kilsyth and has already helped hundreds of people experience beekeeping, said its members will now pool resources to improve production and sell through one brand. It also hopes to continue efforts to preserve Scotland's honeybee population.
On winning the £10,000 innovation category Paul Holmes, chairman of SHBC, said: "Being part of the consortium will unlock the potential for members across the country to turn what has been a hobby into a viable career option."
Scottish Craft Distillers, which has seen 12 small volume drinks producers joining forces, won the marketing category. It intends to use the money increase its export activity and target a number of new geographies.
Tony Reeman-Clark, chairman, said: "We are a group of craft distillers with ambitious plans but we lacked the time, funds and specific expert knowledge to put them into action. Thanks to the prize, we will be able to accelerate our efforts and make those plans a reality."Creative design consortium Adventures in Light, based in Edinburgh, is targeting working with more musical and cultural clients on its visual projection installations after winning the tendering category. It has already provided services to the Edinburgh Science Festival, T in the Park and the Scottish Dance Theatre.
Judges also commended the Borders based Ale Water Valley consortium which involves 10 companies developing new products for tourism operators.
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.Â
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.Â
That is invaluable.Â
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article