Funding opportunities is breakfast topic

A busy business breakfast at The Kings Manor. Picture Nigel Duncan Media

The next Midlothian and East Lothian Breakfast Club is on Thursday 28 September (8am to 10am) at the Best Western Kings Manor Hotel, Milton Road, Edinburgh.

Funding Opportunities from the Enterprise Investment Scheme (EIS) the title of the main talk and the scheme is designed to help smaller higher-risk trading companies raise finance.

It offers a range of tax reliefs to investors who purchase new shares in those companies.

George Archibald, chief executive officer of Midlothian and East Lothian Chamber, who host the breakfast, said: “Anyone wishing to obtain relief, or to set up their own qualifying company, should take tax advice, not only at the outset, but on an on-going basis.”