Challenges Worldwide hopes to create further opportunities in the African country

Exports were on the agenda as a Scottish charity talked trade with Ghana’s High Commissioner (GHC).

As a result of a recent meeting, Challenges Worldwide, which is based in Edinburgh and runs a business consultancy programme in Ghana, says it is now working with the GHC to further develop business opportunities between the African country and Scotland.

Delegates from the Ghana High Commission visited the new HQ of Challenges to find out more about the work the charity is doing to support businesses in Africa.

Neil Fleming, director of the charity’s business development, said: “It was great to get a chance to talk directly around all of our hard work in Ghana over the last three years and share with them some of our successes supporting businesses at the same time as showing off some of the great Ghanaian products that we have on display here.”

The development comes after Challenges helped Ghanaian organisation Bamboo Bikes access new distributors in the UK for its pioneering and sustainable bicycles, which attracted media attention earlier this year after Boris Johnson and Ban Ki Moon were photographed riding them.