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Positive Steps is an agency promoting health, well-being, and lifestyles to vulnerable people. Throughout their journey, they have become a stepping stone for many communities through the implementation of new and improved innovations.
This story portrays individuals who have disabilities and are able to work in a work place environment. It shows their operations and how they support each other; volunteers and colleagues. This story conveys how capable disabled individuals are working and developing themselves to be part of work force.
Accessible Tennis advocates sustainability by providing tennis coaching in different venues around Scotland for underrepresented groups.
It successfully achieves an increase in social activity and improves social inclusion.
Living Solutions is a social enterprise and charitable organization based in Cowdenbeath in the Kingdom of Fife. The organization was set up by Paul Cruise and his business partner Alice, who both have a passion for dealing with environmental and social issues. Whilst the company does not follow a Corporate Social Responsibility model, all decisions made by the organization are done so ethically and morally in line with their aims and objectives. The organization follows several of the UN Global Compact Principles, which will be discussed below.
Active Communities helps to provide a solution to the growing rates of obesity and poverty in the UK, primarily in Renfrewshire. In order to reduce inequalities and poverty, they focus on deprived areas and aim to encourage inclusion from people of all walks of life. The innovation of Active Communities dominantly involves the promotion of health and well being in an affordable manner whilst also providing a social aspect to those involved. During the interview, Susan McDonald, the founder of Active Communities highlighted that the organisation is involved with the following sustainable development goals:
“…good health and well being, reducing inequalities, sustainable communities and also the ending poverty...”
Grassmarket Community Project offers a variety of services and projects including a cafe, woodwork and textile workshops, and an events space, which provides opportunities for some of the most vulnerable in society. It differs in terms of innovation compared to other charities in their sector as they take both a community approach as well as a so-called asset approach to their way of working. This is something in which CEO Jonny Kinross says “not all charities are able to do because they don’t necessarily have a building”.
Not only this, key to Grassmarket Community Projects mission and the way in which they deliver their services is promotion of community spirit. It is about, accepting everyone and connecting people with their community, with Mr Kinross stating; “we eat together as a community and we share things as community”.
Aspire2Access has many innovative projects compared to those of other charities, especially within the local community of Ayr. A2A has an array of projects currently, in a bid to promote their main aim: “Our main aim is to create opportunities and support people to gain employment and retain employment.”
One unique way in which A2A aims to provide innovative support is through modern apprenticeships (MA). The charity provides MAs to individuals who may not be able to apply to other apprenticeships or higher education due to entry levels. However, A2A provides ways for the public to further their education by not having an entry level requirement for their apprenticeships. This is innovative as no other council or organisation provides the same opportunity. In 2017 A2A provides 21 MAs and supported 17 young people to gain their MA.
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Wheatley Foundation’s (TWF) innovation is a service called ‘My Great Start’, targeted at social housing tenants from vulnerable groups. The
interviewee Sharon McIntyre, Financial Inclusion Innovation Manager,
describes the aim of this service as an “early intervention and prevention
service” for social housing tenants, designed to create sustainable communities. The innovation contributes to SDG 1 - No Poverty; SDG 2 - Zero Hunger; SDG 3 Health and Well-Being and SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities.
"I started Thriving Survivors as a direct result of my own life experience.” Ashely Scotland
The aim of the organisation is to improve the lives of survivors of traumatic experiences by increasing their confidence, self-esteem and employability skills. A combined emphasis on overcoming trauma and rebuilding a future is a unique approach developed by Thriving Survivors to help its beneficiaries not only discover who they truly are and where they stand at this point in life, but also help them to achieve their personal and professional life goals.
The Jaw Brew company began with the sole intention of creating a business based on taking sustainable actions, with a mind to contributing to a Circular Economy (CE). Jaw Brew adopted this focus from living in Germany where they were impressed by the emphasis placed on sustainability here and on their return to Scotland spotted an opportunity to fill a gap in the market. Due the company's intentions it covers one of the United Nation's (UN) Sustainability Development Goals - in this case, it heavily features Goal 12, "Responsible Consumption & Production".
Freedom Unlimited is a social enterprise
business, established in 2014 that aims to provide training and employment
opportunities for people with criminal convictions.
Invisible Cities is a social enterprise based in Scotland’s capital city of Edinburgh, determined to shift the negative stigma surrounding homelessness. It aims to do so by running alternative tours of Edinburgh, conducted by individuals previously affected by homelessness or social injustice. In 2016, 35,000 homeless applications were received by Scottish authorities. Statistics like these provided motivation for Zakia and her team to combat homelessness and contribute to eradicating the problem within Edinburgh. The key points of this case study will outline Invisible Cities’ inspiration, their impact, innovative practices, as well as the social and environmental benefits.
Kintyre Recycling is a “social enterprise with charitable objectives” aiming to combat the issue of recycling and providing employment to those who face barriers to employment. This reduces inequality and improves economic growth in the area which relates to the SDGs.
The innovation originally started as collecting cans from pubs and then selling them for profit. This became popular with local businesses in the community and as a result built up a number of contracts with various pubs, restaurants and hotels. As the company grew, they started collecting plastic and cardboard along with the aluminum and utilizing the three bailers purchased to compact the materials, which were then sent to Glasgow.
Kintyre Recycling focuses on creating awareness within the community about responsible consumption and production and creating a positive working environment.
Showcase the Street was established in 2003. At the start, it was a small group providing dance class for girls who want to dance but nowhere to go. As the company continue to grow, Showcase the Street started to offer the dance class and sports class for young people at a lower price. It is worth mentioning that they have some projects working with young people who are disengaged in the struggling with their life. Some of these young people are currently in young people's prisons. Those young people put themselves at risk through the behaviour at ages 14 and 15. A lot of their work is to improve young people's confidence, their self-esteem, and their journey in life. They work with roughly about 3,000-4,000 young people every week. They have five local authorities across Scotland by now.
Showcase the Street is a limited company, and it is also a Scottish charity regulated by Office of Scottish Charity Regulators (OSCR) as well. They carry the higher amount of scrutiny by the government than other company does. As a charity, they have their special scheme which is to help young people and the community through the use of sports and the arts. With particular emphasis on people who stay in areas of deprivation.
The Larder is based on an innovative business model which aims to ‘change lives through food’ by engaging young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and with disabilities with food to improve their health, provide them with transferable skills, make them more employable and build a safety net of social relationships. This ambitious vision can be linked to the United Nations (UN) 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of no poverty, zero hunger, good health and well-being, quality education, and reduced inequalities (UN, 2018).
Their aim is achieved by supporting the development of social enterprise in the Borders in three ways:
● SBSEC act as a voice for social enterprise by promoting the concept of social enterprise, the importance of public social partnerships, and resolving issues common to social enterprises in the Borders. They also represent the area at a national level.
● They provide individual support to organizations when setting up or developing a social enterprise.
● SBSEC also provides general support by managing monthly networking meetings to provide general advice and updates from current affairs to local social enterprise matters. This aim is also achieved by facilitating various business trainings. (SBSEC)
SBSEC contributes to the first goal of no poverty, mainly by providing sustainable jobs and promoting economic growth. They work hard to re-integrate people who have experienced some kind of difficulty in life back into the workforce making sure they have a stable income and promoting equality.
SBSEC also helps with the fourth SDG, quality education, by offering various business trainings and open university courses. They also manage monthly networking events with peer support. SDG goal number eight applies in the case of SBSEC as well, decent work and economic growth.
SBSEC provides quality jobs as they teach the aspiring entrepreneurs to run their own businesses and not be too dependent on SBSEC. Not being an employee of SBSEC provides the entrepreneurs with a chance to learn on their own knowing they can always look to SBSEC for guidance and support.
SDG goal number eleven, sustainable cities and communities is crucial, too. Communities are hubs for ideas and development and by creating five hubs across the area, SBSEC improve the overall situation in the Borders in terms of cutting down electricity and rent expenses for the organizations they represent and boosting innovation.
Goal number seventeen is also applicable here, partnerships for the goals. In order for SBSEC to achieve their aim, they have a strong partnership with the government, private and third sector. They have partnered with several important social enterprise organizations in the area, such as Senscot.
Stirling Community Enterprise provides employability opportunities specifically for disadvantaged groups and those who are adrift from the labour market via commercial work and infrastructure projects aimed at delivering social, economic and physical regeneration for Stirling. Due to this, Stirling Community Enterprise is contributing to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as number 4 which is Quality Education and number 10 which is Reduced Inequalities.
Stirling Community Enterprise provides employability opportunities specifically for disadvantaged groups and those who are adrift from the labour market via commercial work and infrastructure projects aimed at delivering social, economic and physical regeneration for Stirling. Due to this, Stirling Community Enterprise is contributing to several Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) such as number 4 which is Quality Education and number 10 which is Reduced Inequalities.
Move On is a Scottish based charity established in 1997, with locations in Edinburgh and Glasgow. The organization works to unlock the potential of vulnerable young people and those affected by homelessness in order to improve their lives. Along with this, they run a project called FareShare Glasgow and the West of Scotland which works with the food and drink industry to minimize fit-for-purpose surplus, fresh, frozen, and long-life food going to waste and distribute it to not-for-profit organizations working with the most vulnerable people in the community across Glasgow and the West of Scotland.
JCSC is a community managed sport and recreation facility based in Johnstone. JCSC is a social enterprise offering a wide range of activities aimed at all members of society, from children, to parents, to those with additional needs. The overall aim is to tackle social injustice and create an environment which promotes equality and inclusion.
As a result of their innovation, JCSC are addressing a number of the UN Global Goals for Sustainable Development including;