Rural Innovation Support Service
RISS helps farmers, foresters and crofters find practical, sustainable and innovative solutions to everyday challenges affecting their businesses. If an idea is practical and sustainable, RISS will provide a facilitator to help from across one of the services partner organisations: Soil Association Scotland, SAOS, SAC Consulting, Innovative Farmers and Scotland Food & Drink.
RISS Website
Scotland Food & Drink
Working with Scotland Food & Drink, SAOS has been instrumental in helping develop and deliver new strategies for both emerging and traditional food and drink sectors in Scotland. The aim is to establish clarity in direction, purpose and goals for the development of each sector, and ensure individual companies can achieve the benefits of scale as part of a larger group. Ultimately, the process will help achieve faster and sustained economic growth. Strategies developed or supported to date include venison, dairy, fruit, vegetables and potatoes, and the pig sectors.
Scotland Food & Drink website
MDSC
The Market Driven Supply Chain Project (MDSC), was led by the SAOS Supply Chain Team, and helped to unlock some of the biggest and most lucrative market opportunities for the Scottish food and drink sector. With unique specialist supply chain expertise and practical insight to the routes to market, the project team helped sectors and businesses achieve their growth objectives.
MDSC Project Work
Connect Local
A free, advisory service for the local Scottish food and drink sector, Connect Local was delivered by a team of experts from SAOS, SAC, Scotland Food & Drink and Seafood Scotland, and funded by the Scottish Government and the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund. The Connect Local project ended on 31st March 2020, but the work doesn’t stop there. Its legacy will be maintained and extended, under the umbrella of Scotland Food & Drink’s UK Market Development team, with support from SAOS and our partners across the Scotland Food & Partnership.
Connect Local website