Latest Level 1 awardees
Sara Best - Playworksbest (Selkirk)
Sara would like to provide outdoor educational opportunities, mostly for 7-16 year olds, in the Borders, Dumfries and Galloway, Edinburgh and the Lothians. These opportunities will involve creative arts, team building and physical exercise centred on environmental themes such as the plight of the bees, alternative energy and climate change, all of which can be tailored to fit in with the curriculum for excellence as appropriate.
Playworksbest has received £3,450 from the Millennium Awards Trust.
Karen Blades - Rhythm and Groove (North Lanarkshire)
Rhythm and Groove aim to introduce people to music in a fun and entertaining way, and to encourage a love and passion for music. Music will be used as both an educational tool for children, and as a form of therapy for adults and children with additional needs. To do this the organisation will offer workshops for nurseries, primary schools and additional needs groups.
Rhythm and Groove has received £3,087 from the Millennium Awards Trust
Emily Carr - Hear my Music (Glasgow)
Emily and her business partner, Nicola McAteer, want to offer a service which promotes self-advocacy through the use of music, at times using a new instrument called a Skoog. This service will be offered to benefit vulnerable people e.g. children with additional support needs, those with mental health challenges. All profits will be reinvested in the business or to benefit similar groups.
Hear My Music has received £3,600 from the Millennium Awards Trust.
Donna Jennings - The Listening Stone (Fife)
Donna is a qualified drama therapist who is setting up a social enterprise offering confidence building and emotional health and well-being opportunities, as well as drama therapy where appropriate, to primary school children in the Fife and Angus areas. This will be done through various channels, initially schools. Workshops, whole school sessions and work with individuals will be included in Donna’s programme and she will bring all her freelance work together under the umbrella of The Listening Stone.
The Listening Stone has received £3,863 from the Millennium Awards Trust
Helen Crawford - Soroba Training (Oban)
Soroba Training will be a social enterprise training hotel. The hotel will offer training and accreditation in all aspects of hotel operations, provide a conference centre, four rooms for residents as well as regular hotel services such as a café and in time full catering. Profits would be reinvested in the business and eventually used to benefit the local community.
Soroba Training has received £5,000 from the Social Entrepreneurs Fund
Tracy Murdoch - Kidz-eco CIC (West Lothian)
Tracy is providing a retail outlet in Bathgate selling good quality affordable clothes and equipment for children from 0-5 years. All items sold will have been donated to Kidz-eco. This will result in the effective recycling of these items and will raise money from the sale of quality second-hand merchandise, diverting it from landfill.
Kidz-eco has received £4,155 from the Social Entrepreneurs Fund.
Geoffrey Tunstall - Scallops Direct (Dumfries and Galloway)
Geoffrey will establish a scallops processing plant in Annan to provide new jobs in the region and help facilitate work based training opportunities for disadvantaged people or people who find it difficult to access mainstream employment, he will be working with local colleges and training providers. Scallops Direct will buy scallops locally, process them, and deliver to customers (hotels, restaurants and specialist food wholesalers) within a short time frame (3 days as opposed to 6-7 days which would be the norm).
Scallops Direct has received £4,310 from the Social Entrepreneurs Fund.
