Case Studies

Creation Mill: Reviving Langholm’s textile Heritage

Circular Economy, LaunchMe

Creation Mill revitalises Langholm’s textile industry through community wellbeing initiatives, workshops, DIY kits, and industry training. Through the LaunchMe programme, they are now ready for their next big move towards social impact on a larger scale.   

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Creation Mill: Reviving Langholm’s textile Heritage

Sustainable Thinking Scotland CIC

Food & Drink, LaunchMe

Sustainable Thinking Scotland CIC (STS) is an environmental social enterprise based in the Falkirk area. It delivers projects that encourage local sustainable food production, provides community-scale green waste recycling, and creates learning opportunities for the most vulnerable and disadvantaged in the area.

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Sustainable Thinking Scotland CIC

Bigton Collective

Creative Industries (including Digital), LaunchMe

Alice Ritch and Laura Whittall founded their social enterprise, Bigton Collective, to provide a supportive and inspirational hub for arts and health on Shetland, promoting wellbeing and creative confidence for all.

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Bigton Collective

Clean Water Wave

Circular Economy, LaunchMe

Clean Water Wave is a social enterprise dedicated to developing and supplying clean and safe water technologies for use on polluted water and for climate mitigation purposes.

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Clean Water Wave

Randori Dojo

Sport & Physical Activity, LaunchMe

Randori Dojo provides a positive impact on the local and wider community’s physical, psychological, social and emotional wellbeing, through Judo.

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Randori Dojo

ScrapAntics

Circular Economy, LaunchMe

Hear from social entrepreneur Sandy Greene about her enterprise Scrapantics; how it has grown, been challenged, and thrived in difficult times. #MakeChangeHappen #StartSomethingGood

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ScrapAntics

Wild & Kind CIC

Creative Industries (including Digital), LaunchMe

Wild & Kind, a social enterprise based in Glasgow, focusses on minimising isolation and loneliness for people with marginalised gender identities. Profits made from ethical merchandise sales fund workshops, meet-ups, and community events for women and those out with the gender binary.

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Wild & Kind CIC

North Uist Community Hub

Tourism & Hospitality, LaunchMe

Àrainneachd Àlainn, the North Uist Community Hub, is a social enterprise providing a central point for the local community and visitors; acting as a gathering place, an innovative incubator for learning and enterprise, and a place to inspire environmental learning and consciousness.

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North Uist Community Hub

Brave, Strong, Beautiful

Employability, LaunchMe

Kerry Anderson, founder of Brave, Strong, Beautiful, set up her social enterprise to help change the lives of young people in Scotland.

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Brave, Strong, Beautiful