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The innovation is in the way Amaz helps the “Education for All” association. For each pair of sneakers sold, Amaz will finance 1 day of boarding school for a girl. “Education for All” is a non-governmental organization that builds and manages 5 boarding schools in the High-Atlas region, around Marrakesh. Mrs. Bennani wants to help young girls of Morocco. She believes that having access to an education after primary school will allow these young girls from rural areas to have a better future.
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.
Marieke de Ruyter de Wildt is the founder of The Fork. She has been working with the digitization of farms for more than 15 years and, according to her, "blockchain has a few characteristics that are absolutely new and that we don't have in other technologies". Her work is to help clients understand the technology and integrate it into their already existing business models. The approach that most companies use today is to develop a solution, put it into a package, and sell it. She suggests another approach, where the solution is integrated with the current stack of applications that each company has.
Unilever announced that they would send zero non-hazardous waste to landfill for more than 600 of their sites. This announcement was made in January 2015 and was an industry-leading achievement. For example, in China, Unilever stopped wrapping pallets with plastic and replaced it with reusable elastic fabrics. In Brazil, they installed a biomass boiler burner using recycled wood rather than oil.
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;
The innovation of Crisis was to utilize their previous expertise and provide a counselling service that was affordable for all and caught those “who fall through the nets”. Crisis aims to remove the time and geographical restrictions that are faced by public bodies and to ensure that patients are helped back to full health. Following on, Crisis provides its services to a range of people from children, military personnel, and migrants among others.
The innovation of Crisis was to utilize its founders' previous expertise and provide a counseling service that was affordable for all and caught those “who fall through the nets.” Crisis aims to remove the time and geographical restrictions that public bodies face and to ensure that patients are helped back to full health. Following on, Crisis provides its services to a range of people from children, to military personnel, to migrants.
“We’ve taken professional coaching into a virtual and digital space, making it accessible for young people”
Inspiralba’s emergence occurred via entrepreneurial innovation from the founder, Ailsa Clark. By applying her pre-existing knowledge and experiences from working both freelance and within the local council, to a new, similar context. The business model was simple according to Ailsa, “To still have the same business model working freelance that I did previously, generating income and surplus to reinvest in different projects by simply changing the environment to working within a social enterprise”. Inspiralba’s work exemplifies the real-world application of Sustainable Development Goal 9 “Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure” by fostering innovation within rural communities.
The work of FVSE contributes to Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 4: Quality of Education, by providing young people in the local community with the opportunity to participate in training programs.
The innovation can also be related to SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth. Annually, FVSE organizes Stirling Highland Games which directly contributes to growth within the local economy through ticket sales for this event. According to FVSE’s own report on The Economic Impact of the Highland Stirling Games, the event has had a direct economic impact on Stirling’s local economy of £379,877.
Finally, FVSE contributes to SDG 3: Good Health and Well-Being for people by promoting positive mind-sets among participants on the programs, leading to an improved skillset and greater confidence.
According to Green, the innovation of Instant Neighbour is trying to break the cyclical nature of foodbanks. In the case of Instant Neighbour, its foodbank has seen second and third generation of the same family return. Green’s perspective of this is that “food parcels does nothing but apart from making you less hungry for a couple of days. Doesn’t solve the issue.” She is glad that companies like ASDA or Tesco are investing money into organisations like FareShare, which redistributes surplus food to foodbanks however remains doubtful of this solving the problem. In Green’s eyes, this only kicks the can down the road and does not solve the core issue.
Weekday WOW Factor is an innovative concept built on the principles of public health and occupational therapy (OT). As an occupational therapist Pasna, believes that “healthy occupations lead to healthier outcomes” in terms of people living better for longer.
Pasna uses her OT knowledge and experience to design and deliver fun but meaningful activities to promote better health. The fun aspect encourages clients to participate in activities they would not normally engage in.