Caithness & North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership - Update
8th February 2013
Tourism, Food & Drink:
The Institute of Design Innovation has been working with a small group of tourism businesses in Caithness & North Sutherland on a HIE-funded programme to stimulate innovation in creating high quality visitor experiences. The cluster of businesses meets regularly with facilitators from the Institute, and its progress can be seen at http://www.culturesofinnovation.co.uk/cns
Tourism Intelligence Scotland is promoting a workshop run by Wild Scotland on "Wildlife Tourism" for tourism businesses. The workshop will be held in Lairg Community Centre on 20th February - for bookings and more information see http://www.tourism-intelligence.co.uk/News-and-Events/Events/Help-your-guests-go-wild-about-wildlife.aspx?pageNo=1
Communications:
As part of an ongoing process of helping communicate progress with the delivery of aspects of our economic transition programme CNSRP's partners work together to generate news stories for local, regional and national media. I also speak on a regular basis to individuals and organisations across the area to update on progress. This week:
"This is Caithness" was published last week as a Supplement to the John O'Groat Journal. Coordinated by colleagues at Dounreay, it features a range of articles on key activities helping the area economy to grow and diversify. Copies are available from outlets in the area, as well as from the Dounreay office at Olrig Street in Thurso.
On a wider level, CNSRP partners continue to work on ways of reaching influencers in key economic zones. Discussions took place this week with representatives from the Scottish Council for Development & Industry on a possible London event aimed at key business figures, and focused on business opportunities in our area.
Caithness Chamber of Commerce has announced that it will be moving premises, for the first time bringing all staff together under one roof at the Naver Business Centre in Thurso. The Chamber will also manage the Centre on behalf of Naver Ltd. For further information see http://caithnesschamber.com/News/archive/caithness-chamber-of-commerce-on-the-move
I was delighted to meet up this week with Helen Mackay at the impressive new premises for her company HelCat Training Ltd. Since setting up last year the business has gone from strength to strength, and the company's new base at Ormlie provides a good venue for training, in addition to the online training and accreditation options the company has also developed. More information at http://www.helcattraining.com
Eann Sinclair
Related Businesses
Related Articles
In April 2021, Dounreay Site Restoration Ltd (DSRL) became a subsidiary company of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Group. The Cavendish Dounreay Partnership ceased.
A new report launched (Wednesday 29th September 2021), commissioned by Caithness Chamber of Commerce on behalf of the Caithness & North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership, demonstrates the economic benefits that Space Hub Sutherland will bring to the North Highland and Moray areas. Space Hub Sutherland - a new satellite launch site - will bring huge employment and tourism benefits to the Scottish Highlands.
Seven community projects are to benefit from over £80k of funding following the Caithness & North Sutherland Fund's latest grant awards. CNSFund Chairperson David Glass said "Our latest funding includes improvements to youth activities, community and recreational facilities as well as progressing an ambitious project to establish a major visitor attraction in Caithness.
The second phase in a major upgrade of Scrabster Harbour in Caithness has secured up to £3m investment from Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE). The funding will enable the redevelopment of the existing St.
In April 2019 Peter Faccenda took over the role of Caithness and North Sutherland Regeneration Partnership manager. He takes over from Eann Sinclair who was appointment as Caithness and Sutherland area manager for Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE).
Weeks commencing 20th & 27th May Energy & Business Services: The Beatrice Offshore Windfarm project this week reached an output capacity of 587.9MW (its installed capacity is 588MW), which is the highest output from any renewable source in Scotland. And as the construction phase of the Beatrice Offshore project comes to an end it is good to see that offshore piling operations have begun for the Moray East offshore windfarm development.
SpaceHub Sutherland: The team continued with a programme of drop-in events on the ground around the area this week, running drop-in events at the Village Hall in Skerray and the Kinlochbervie Hotel. For details on the project and the programme of events see http://www.hie.co.uk/regional-information/area-information/caithness-and-sutherland/uk-space-port/community-engagement.html Energy & Business Services: As previously highlighted, a meeting was held in Thurso to highlight the newly-established DeepWind Offshore Supply Chain Cluster.
Week Commencing 29 April 2019. Energy & Business Services: As we see positive progress with the Beatrice Offshore Windfarm development, and the development of both Moray East and West projects, a new initiative to support supply chain companies to learn more about opportunities will be held in Thurso on 13th May.
Weeks commencing 8th-22nd April 2019. Energy & Business Services: It was good to see the announcement this week by Dounreay that its Decommissioning Services Framework had gone live.
Week Commencing 8th April 2019 Energy & Business Services: It was good to see this week in the Press & Journal's Energy Voice a piece confirming the transformational impact that the Beatrice Offshore project is having on Wick. It is a timely reminder that although the £2.6Bn project is nearing the end of its construction phase, the economic impacts in the north will continue over the lifetime of the project through the operations base in the restored harbourfront buildings in Wick, which will be home to around 90 workers.
