Latest edition
Developing the Young Workforce in Inverclyde
Employer pledges, school partnerships and workplace encounters give Inverclyde leavers a route into work: how the DYW idea works on the ground.
Latest in the Ledger
9 piecesEverything the journal has published so far, newest first: money and advice for firms, the companies of Inverclyde, the port and the river, and the training of the workforce.
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Skills and Training
Developing the Young Workforce in Inverclyde
Employer pledges, school partnerships and workplace encounters give Inverclyde leavers a route into work: how the DYW idea works on the ground.
Employer pledges and school links, on the ground.
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Inverclyde Companies
Greenock High Street After the Retail Slump
Greenock town centre trades against vacancy and online rivals: who still opens on the high street, what fills empty units and what lifts footfall.
Who still opens, and what fills the voids.
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Business Support
A Practical Guide to Small Business Grants in Scotland
How Scottish small business grants work, where live schemes are listed, what a strong application contains and the mistakes that sink most bids.
Where the money is listed, and what a bid needs.
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Port and the Clyde
Greenock Cruise Terminal and the Visitor Economy
Cruise ships call at Greenock through the season: how the terminal works, what passengers do ashore and the links to Glasgow and the Clyde.
Ships, passengers and the money they leave ashore.
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Inverclyde Companies
Ardgowan Distillery and the Return of Single Malt
Ardgowan is building a malt whisky future on Inverclyde farmland: the plan, the stills, the visitor offer and what a distillery means for suppliers.
Malt whisky returns to Inverclyde farmland.
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Skills and Training
Apprenticeships in Inverclyde: the Routes In
Foundation, modern and graduate apprenticeships open to Inverclyde leavers: what each pays, who offers places and how a bid is written.
Earn while you learn, three ways in.
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Business Support
Business Rates Relief in Scotland, Explained
Small business bonus, transitional relief, empty property and hardship: the rates reliefs a Greenock shop or office can actually claim.
The reliefs a Greenock shop can actually claim.
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Port and the Clyde
Shipbuilding on the Clyde: the Greenock Years
Scotts of Greenock launched ships for two centuries: the yard years, the naval work, the closures and the skills that stayed in the town.
Two centuries of launches, and the skills that stayed.
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Port and the Clyde
From Sugaropolis to the Cruise Age
Greenock grew rich on sugar, ships and dock trade while its chamber of commerce, founded in 1813, watched over the quays: the story under the town.
Sugar, ships and the chamber of 1813.
Business Support
2 piecesPublic money and advice for Scottish small firms: grants, rates relief and how a bid holds together.
A Practical Guide to Small Business Grants in Scotland
How Scottish small business grants work, where live schemes are listed, what a strong application contains and the mistakes that sink most bids.
Business Rates Relief in Scotland, Explained
Small business bonus, transitional relief, empty property and hardship: the rates reliefs a Greenock shop or office can actually claim.
Inverclyde Companies
2 piecesThe firms that employ Inverclyde, from the distillery field to the high street counter.
Greenock High Street After the Retail Slump
Greenock town centre trades against vacancy and online rivals: who still opens on the high street, what fills empty units and what lifts footfall.
Ardgowan Distillery and the Return of Single Malt
Ardgowan is building a malt whisky future on Inverclyde farmland: the plan, the stills, the visitor offer and what a distillery means for suppliers.
The archive
A trading address with a long memory
This domain published the news of the Greenock Chamber of Commerce, the merchants' organisation founded in 1813, for years before the journal took the address over. The trading story it watched, sugar, ships, docks and the return of the cruise ships, is told once, in full, in From Sugaropolis to the Cruise Age, and the old article addresses now land on the desks that replaced them.
Port and the Clyde
3 piecesCruise calls, cargo and the industrial memory of the river, from Ocean Terminal to James Watt Dock.
Greenock Cruise Terminal and the Visitor Economy
Cruise ships call at Greenock through the season: how the terminal works, what passengers do ashore and the links to Glasgow and the Clyde.
Shipbuilding on the Clyde: the Greenock Years
Scotts of Greenock launched ships for two centuries: the yard years, the naval work, the closures and the skills that stayed in the town.
From Sugaropolis to the Cruise Age
Greenock grew rich on sugar, ships and dock trade while its chamber of commerce, founded in 1813, watched over the quays: the story under the town.
Skills and Training
2 piecesApprenticeships that pay, school links and the employer pledges that open doors for leavers.
Developing the Young Workforce in Inverclyde
Employer pledges, school partnerships and workplace encounters give Inverclyde leavers a route into work: how the DYW idea works on the ground.
Apprenticeships in Inverclyde: the Routes In
Foundation, modern and graduate apprenticeships open to Inverclyde leavers: what each pays, who offers places and how a bid is written.
What the Ledger is
An independent journal, written in the third person, that sells nothing and belongs to no trade body. It reads the primary sources, names the facts, dates the writing and links the source: about the journal, the news index, the desk's address.