RBS SECC event aims to boost Scottish small business growth

Royal Bank of Scotland has announced that the latest of its free-to-attend ‘Boost’ events aimed at driving small business growth by helping organisations make the right connections will take place in Glasgow this week.

The bank’s new small business initiative, designed to help companies move forward, will take place at Glasgow’s SECC on Wednesday.

More than 400 business are expected to attend the event which is the latest edition of the programme launched in Edinburgh in January and follows the most recent held in Inverness last week.

The Glasgow edition will see a team of RBS small business experts servicing every region of Scotland on hand to provide advice and introduce a new dedicated digital portal through which small businesses can get access to valuable business insight and be connected to a team of ‘Business Growth Enablers’ operating across Scotland.

Operating regionally, RBS said its team’s local knowledge and networks can connect businesses with each other, provide hands-on expertise and training, and will host regular workshops and events in their locales.

The event, which also coincides with the launch of the bank’s new £10 note celebrating RBS’s 290th anniversary, will feature a networking session as well as a series of workshops and presentations from expert speakers from organisations including Google and Worldpay.

The RBS chief economist Stephen Boyle will also offer thoughts on the Scottish business outlook for the year ahead.

Susan Fouquier, managing director of business and private banking at Royal Bank of Scotland, said: “Small businesses represent more than half of all private employment in Scotland.

“The sector is crucial to the economic success of the Scottish economy and it is important that as a bank for Scotland we do everything that we can to help them prosper.

“Being a small business owner brings its own unique set of challenges. Through Boost we aim to help SMEs here cope with this challenges.”