Firstport started work in 2007 to help social entrepreneurs bring forward their ideas and to make them happen.
Our vision is a society in which doing business is synonymous with doing good.
Since 2009, we have distributed over £15.8m in grant funding amongst 1800 social enterprises across Scotland and the North East of England. Alongside the financial support, we have supported over 2500 social enterprise founders on a 1-2-1 and group basis, offering business advice, investment-readiness support and training to start and grow their business.
Our alumni work across Scotland in almost every sector of the economy, creating fair jobs, local wealth and social impact.
Firstport is committed to transparency
Firstport is committed to transparency and we work with 360Giving to publish information about our grants. Using the 360Giving Data Standard, our awarded grants since 2022 are available as an Excel file on this page. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit the Creative Commons website. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to be used and shared as they wish. The data must be attributed to Firstport for Social Entrepreneurs.
We believe that with better information, funders can be more effective and strategic decision makers. 360Giving supports funders to publish open data about their grants, and empowers people to use this data to improve charitable giving through a range of free online tools. For more information, visit the 360giving website.