Case Studies

Café Recharge

Food & Drink, SEF - Build it

Café ReCharge is a surplus food café in Galashiels, in the Scottish Borders. The social enterprise aims to reduce the gap between food waste and food poverty by operating a Pay What You Can café.

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Café Recharge

Dechomai

Tourism & Hospitality, SEF - Start it

Dechomai Events was founded by Bayile Adeoti to promote diversity and community integration through delivering events and paid work place training.

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Dechomai

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

Scotland All Strong

Sport & Physical Activity, SEF - Start it

Scotland All Strong is a social enterprise that encourages a blended approach to improvement and self-management of mental health. They provide and promote physical activity, mindful relaxation, peer exchange, and support as powerful tools to benefit overall wellbeing.

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Scotland All Strong

EqualiTree

Employability, SEF - Start it

EqualiTree is a social enterprise that provides training in land-based industries and heritage crafts to women and ethnic minorities: groups that have historically been excluded and under-represented from this work.

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EqualiTree