Last month Cathcart Associates had the honour of attending a charity dinner alongside Michelle Obama.

The event, that took place on July 17^th, was hosted by the Hunter Foundation at the EICC with up to 900 guests attending including philanthropy and business leaders.

Michelle Obama, Former First Lady, also attended and spoke at the gathering following the footsteps of her husband, former US President Barack Obama, who visited Scotland in May last year for a similar event with the foundation.

Sam Wason, Managing Director of Cathcart Associates, commented: “Michelle Obama was in town on Tuesday for an evening of conversation and chat, along with music from Deacon Blue and Beverly Knight, and comedy from Rob Brydon. Sounds good doesn’t it!

And it was! The chance to hear the thoughts of the former First Lady on everything from parenthood, philosophy, business as well as a few oblique references to her husband’s successor was fascinating. She was truly inspirational, and very funny. We then had some great food, great music and some hilarious auctioneering from Rob Brydon.

All in all, a once in a lifetime event. We certainly had a blast and hope our clients did too, plus the event has raised a huge amount for over 1,000 good causes. “

All profits from the event have been invested in hundreds of charities across Scotland.

On Tuesday, the 31^st of July, Cathcart Associates proudly made it to the final of the Business Fives Technology Football Event.

Raising over £240 for Prostate Scotland, Cathcart Associates took home second place which resulted in qualifying for the National Final in Edinburgh on the 26^th September 2018.

Other notable contributions were received from Commsworld, who raised £303 and deservingly came first in the tournament and Zonal who raised £260, also qualifying for the finals in September.

Business Fives in now just £16 shy of £10,000 in its bid to raise £25,000 for charity thanks to the summer event.

With Cathcart Associates competing in the National Final, we will continue to fundraise for Prostate Scotland leading up to the event.

Join us in wishing our team luck in The National Final on 26^th September.

To help raise money for Prostate Scotland, please see:

https://www.justgiving.com/fundraising/cathcart-associates-business-5s

According to a report carried out by Tech Nation, Scotland’s capital city is the best place for tech companies right now.

Tech Nation surveyed the UK Tech Community on business, people, living and growth. The report, backed up by the government, is an annual series that over 3,400 responded to with the majority being tech founders or people working in the sector.

The respondents rated the capital city of Scotland on how good the city was for ‘doing business’. This was determined on a range of sub factors including access to talent.

The analysis found that 87% of the Edinburgh community rated the opportunities for high growth digital companies to scale up in Edinburgh as positive, followed by London (79%), Birmingham (71%) and Leeds (70%)

It seems to be a good year for Edinburgh so far, having also been voted as the world’s best city for millennials to move to earlier this year by Deustche Bank.