Do more with less.
In this practical session, we explore how rural entrepreneurs can innovate and grow using limited resources. Bootstrapping is about making smart, strategic choices — using what you have to build what you need.
This session includes a site visit to Low Auldgirth, a dynamic rural enterprise where resourcefulness meets innovation. You’ll hear directly from the team about how they’ve built and scaled ventures through creativity, collaboration, and lean thinking.
You’ll gain:
- Lean innovation principles tailored for rural SMEs
- Strategies to test and grow ideas affordably
- Insights into bootstrapped success from a live business case
- Tools to move forward without waiting for funding
Resourceful. Resilient. Ready.
This event is funded by the UK government through the UK Shared Prosperity Fund.
The UK Shared Prosperity Fund is a central pillar of the UK government’s Levelling Up agenda and provides £2.6 billion of funding for local investment by March 2026. The Fund aims to improve pride in place and increase life chances across the UK investing in communities and place, supporting local business, and people and skills. For more information, visit https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-shared-prosperity-fund-prospectus
