Welcome to InCube Renfrewshire!
Our new business incubator for creative retail businesses is here.
InCube is Invest in Renfrewshire’s new business programme to launch and grow creative retail businesses. All our InCube businesses won their places against stiff competition and they’re all making the most of their year in the InCube where they get a broad mix of support, training and advice from industry experts. The incubator gives young businesses a worry-free environment in which they can concentrate on developing their products, services and markets.
Up to 20 businesses will win an InCube place every year. They’ll get a package of support that’s worth more than £11,000 and includes funding and support:
- Start-up office space in bright, newly refurbished & fully equipped premises in Paisley town centre, with free IT and WiFi
- Extra funding towards business start-up costs
- No rental fees, rates or utilities expenses for up to 12 months
- One-to-one mentoring and coaching
- 1 year membership of Renfrewshire Chamber of Commerce
- Expert branding, website & graphic design
- Specialist support to develop e-commerce and online trading facilities
- Workshops and tuition from industry experts on “how to” essentials such as marketing, book-keeping, sales, customer service and business growth planning
We are a community of creative entrepreneurs working from our base at 27 High Street, Paisley.
Our new shop and retail skills academy is located at 9b Gilmour Street, Paisley. Here you will find goods and products from our InCube businesses and Renfrewshire based guest traders. We look forward to seeing you there!
Supporting is in our DNA
InCube was created to help refresh Paisley’s town centre, develop creative businesses in Renfrewshire and stimulate the local economy.
We work together with businesses and our partner organisations to collaborate in a unique and innovative way.
What we’re about
Strategy
Our vision is to develop businesses as well as contribute to Renfrewshire Council’s strategy.
Creativity
We have a creative approach to issues. Everything can be solved in many different ways – we look for out-of-the-box solutions.
Our current businesses:
Our previous businesses:
But wait, there’s more
Keep checking back for stories of our businesses, useful information and upcoming exciting events. We will be providing interesting articles on many different topics.
Gary Ennis spoke to our new InCube intake
On Monday we were lucky to hear from Gary Ennis, our InCube Inspirer. Gary has shared his story of creating successful advertising business – NSDesign.
14th September 2016
Steven Reynold from Micro Fitness delivered Pitching workshop
Steven Reynolds from Micro Fitness has delivered a pitching workshop to our businesses. Steven has explained how pitching is important in business and showed the difference between quality pitch...
1st September 2016
UWS Inspiring Women – D.O.M. art – Launch of the exhibition
On 25th of August Dominika Żurawska has launched her exhibition in University of West of Scotland, called Iconic. Here you can watch a trailer of the event and recording from...
1st September 2016
Our fabulous intern Cara Hosie has found employment with Shearer Candles
From the left: Yvonne Livingstone (Vonne Alley), Krisztina Csuport (KCD), Kirsty McQueen (Others Are), Lorna Williams (More Than Words), Kathryn Ingram (InCube), Cara Hosie, Cindy Robb (InCube), Melissa Watt...
19th August 2016
