I was standing in a queue at the swimming pool some time ago and overheard two people talking. ‘They keep changing the prices, and the times.’ ‘Aye, they don’t know what they’re doing do they?’ I didn’t join in the…

At this time of year, we at MainStreet Consulting are always keen to support causes that mean something to us, particularly in the communities in which we work. So we’ve split our charity pot across our team and asked each…

Suddenly, talking about taxing tourists is all the thing. Over the past few weeks we have seen a sudden flurry of interest in the possibility of councils being empowered to introduce a ‘Tourist Tax’ or Transient Visitor Levy (TVL), to…

MainStreet is five years old this week. We’re pretty excited about making it that far - 50% of small businesses fail within five years - but also pretty amazed at how quickly that time has passed. You could say that…

Young people were the theme of yesterday’s Central Scotland Green Network (CSGN) Forum, which I attended with our friends at Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH). Despite Storm Hector’s best efforts, 200 or so delegates attended at Glasgow Caledonian University’s impressive Hamish…

I attended the Women into Leadership conference this week. Being part of a three ‘man’ band with two male directors (all of us with young families), I attended for personal development reasons; to gain tips on how women in senior…

On Wednesday, I went to the Health & Social Care Digital Leaders' Summit 2018, which coincided with the launch of the Scotland’s new Digital Health and Care Strategy. I’ve only skimmed it so far but there’s some good intent around…