In our third Pilotlight pathway we are working with a co-design team of people who deliver and access support in Moray to look at how self-directed support can be used for small business development. In this blog post, Katrina Watson, one of the team members, writes about what she thinks self-directed support can offer people who want to set up a small business. Here's what she has to say…
I was unsure of coming along to the group initially as have no previous experience of this kind of thing but thought I would go to the first one or two to see what it was all about. Also I wanted to know more about self-directed support being the nosy kind and felt that if this is going to affect me then I might as well know about it from the start instead of being a straggler for a change. The thought of having some information that others don't means there will come a time when I can pass information on and make something clearer for them. It will also help me as I'm generally regarded as a thicko which will come as a nice surprise to most, nice to be clued up.