Pathgreen Glamping is a luxury glamping pod situated within the Scottish hamlet, Path of Condie. The business is owned by husband-and-wife duo, Grant and Denise Millar. The glamping retreat offers high-end luxury, wood-fired hot tub, holistic therapy, and beauty treatments, providing the perfect escape for those looking to relax and reconnect with nature.

Peanut Pie Baby Ltd is an online retailer of children’s clothing for babies and toddlers, founded in October 2020 by two working mothers, Lynne O’Keeffe and Gillian Bristow. The business was established to cater to the demand for high-quality products for new parents and customers buying gifts for children. Peanut Pie Baby Ltd is an online retailer of children’s clothing for babies and toddlers, founded in October 2020 by two working mothers, Lynne O’Keeffe and Gillian Bristow. The business was established to cater to the demand for high-quality products for new parents and customers buying gifts for children.

Zoe Hall has strong background and experience in her family’s long standing self-catering business in the Highlands. Her parents always had great ideas of having Shepherds huts or cabins on their land to let out. She thought it would be nice to follow in their footsteps and try herself to get planning for three Shepherds huts.  Zoe managed to get approval for the planning, which proved complex as they neighbour an RSPB Nature Reserve, their site sits within an ancient woodland, and they are set in the Cairngorms National Park.

CopperCairn first came to life in October 2020 after entrepreneur Mitch Bechard decided to leave behind his career as a global whisky ambassador for William Grant and Sons and Glenfiddich and start his own business – whisky experiences with a twist.

DSL Business Finance provided Mitch with loan funding to purchase a luxury custom-built eight-seater van to enable him to take groups around some of Scotland’s best distilleries.

Eileen O’Farrell is an experienced Chartered Accountant, working primarily within the Oil and Gas sector for some 25 years. Following the oil price downturn in 2015 in Aberdeen, she left the oil and gas industry to pursue a new adventure and joined parts of the Clipper Round the World Yacht Race before becoming a Royal Yachting Association-certified commercial yacht master.

With the hospitality and sailing industry hit hard by the social distancing requirements of Covid-19, foreign holidays significantly reduced, she spotted an opportunity to set up a  staycations business.

Skye entrepreneur John Coghill noticed a letter in the newspaper in 2019 from a Broadford local drawing attention to the fact that there were few options left for dining out and takeaway food. After some additional research, he spotted the Hebridean Inn was up for sale.  The inn was a well-known hotel and restaurant in Broadford that has been part of the village since the 1970s. However, it was reduced to B&B for ease of management by the owners were aging. John and his partners acquired the Inn and set up Hebridean Hospitality in 2019. Soon after, the company approached DSL Business Finance for a loan to refurbish the restaurant kitchen.  The business has a strong management team with John at the helm and is supported by Accountant, David Liepins. John has previously managed large capital expenditure projects for his family business. He has also worked in the kitchen at Skye’s world-renowned restaurant and hotel The Three Chimneys, as well as managing other hotels on the island.